They say timing is everything when it comes to comedy.
And Paul Pogba has just proved the old adage is absolutely true.
On Friday the French international became the only player in the Premier League with his own official emoji:
He revealed it himself on his Twitter feed on Friday:
Ouloulou suis devenu un emoji👊🏾 thanks twitter for emojing me, let's
have fun and kick some ass at #pogba @manutd @Adidas #neverfollow pic.twitter.com/hDNy64AUpt— Paul Pogba (@paulpogba) January 13, 2017
Unfortunately, he followed it up by having something of a ‘mare against Liverpool on Sunday, culminating in a needless handball in the penalty area, with James Milner converting the resulting spot-kick to put the visitors in the lead in their crunch clash at Old Trafford.
Needless to say, Twitter was sympathetic to the 23-year-old midfielder…
Poor-pogba hand ball has been the difference in the game #MUNLIV #pogba pic.twitter.com/77lx0Zvsb8
— Revival (@itsG_olimini) January 15, 2017
#pogba Can you tell me where I can download the flappy hands emoji or the looking for your man on a corner emoji
— Derek Suckling (@degsy380) January 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/ETNAR_uk/status/820669384343621636
https://twitter.com/elitebellerin/status/820679710212558851
This was a common theme…
The pogba hashtag has been changed to #Pogba is💩
— Sam (@iwobiflick17) January 15, 2017
#Pogba has had an emoji for agggggges. This, 💩 #MUNLIV
— Steve Marriott (@stevemarriott91) January 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/callon7/status/820683837390864384
And so was this:
Wonder if they're going to change the #pogba emoji thing to Pogba🖐🏿
— Alex NFFC Whyler (@WHYLER_FOREST) January 15, 2017
Time to change the Pogba emoji to 🙌
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) January 15, 2017
But this one said it all…
https://twitter.com/AddictedToCFC/status/820674363796164608