Announce anything.
Football fans are an impatient breed so the decision for clubs all over the world to give those supporters direct access to the hotline probably felt like a better idea at the time.
Now, if you’re frustrated or just greedy, you can go straight to the good folk themselves and list them your demands. So instead of the usual announcements like team line-ups and bland quotes from training, the world of Twitter can be heard and they can dictate what they want announced.
@ManUtd announce Pogba now you fraud I'm running out of patience
— T［A］O (@TaoLShooligan) August 3, 2016
It’s gotten out of hand though – things usually do.
During a transfer window, you might as well just not tweet unless you’re going to announce a new addition to your club. And we really mean that in the most literal sense possible.
Please announce anything, even if its a Goat @Arsenal
— Endy (@Ghenedinho) July 19, 2016
What started off with real fans genuinely asking for light to be shed on certain issues, the ‘announce’ request became a tool to beat the club over the head with if they even tried to write about anything else on Twitter apart from whatever it was you wanted them to write about.
All summer, any update Manchester United had for their fans only sparked more and more fury and incessant replies of ‘Announce Pogba’. Now, the whole thing has just spiraled out of control.
Manchester United
Everyone’s over Pogba at this stage.
ANNOUNCE CHED EVANS @ManUtd
— Riley (@Mourxnho) October 14, 2016
The manager isn’t that popular anymore either.
sack jose and announce me
— Fatih (@fasterthanyou14) October 12, 2016
Bring me sunshine.
https://twitter.com/UnitedPauI/status/785856274923720705
If you know what you want, go out and get it.
For the love of God, do not celebrate van Persie’s career if you won’t acknowledge that he has left first.
https://twitter.com/MattInnes0/status/780143521709842432
Oh, just do one.
https://twitter.com/ffsRooney/status/777491579816775681
Liverpool
Everyone’s over Firmino at this stage.
announce Ched Evans
— . (@VirgilDanDijk) October 14, 2016
Some people are never happy.
announce Lewandowski
— jamie (@liverpool2981) October 4, 2016
But others just get completely carried away.
announce the title
— A (@Ameer6__) September 27, 2016
At least some fans are reasonable.
announce moreno contract termination
— ŦÂ | TORA 09 ⛩ (@TwiddlingAce) September 25, 2016
Others… not so much.
https://twitter.com/SakhoLad/status/777756374293946368
Arsenal
Everyone’s over Mustafi at this stage.
https://twitter.com/afcjackk/status/786939057427349505
Predictable.
announce wenger out
— J (@Jfcx_8) August 17, 2016
Unpredictable.
@Arsenal announce Wenger contract extension please ffs
— 🇷🇴🤟Carpe Diem🤟🇬🇧 (@Djofils) August 30, 2016
More unpredictable.
announce Francis Jeffers
— Geff (@Geff181) August 13, 2016
Manchester City
The impatience.
Announce win over @Everton #MCFC
— RAGNAR 💎 (@KagoChege_) October 14, 2016
Tottenham Hotspur
The random.
https://twitter.com/Robertvesz/status/786310857529647104
Chelsea
The what the f**k.
announce Harambe
— CFC Opinion (@CFCopinion) July 30, 2016
Call them spoiled, brats, or trolls but cherish them. Because, let’s face it, sooner or later, your club declines, the craic stops, you become like Aston Villa and then you don’t even have the energy to ask for anything anymore.
announce awful
— Ash Lillington (@AshLillington) September 17, 2016
At least we can always rely on United fans.
https://twitter.com/VintageAnder/status/767262315356053504
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