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27th Jul 2016

The first tweets of some of football’s biggest accounts are priceless

Tweet memories

Nooruddean Choudry

Social media is just a part of life now, and football is no different.

Most footballers have both a Facebook and Twitter account, whether they themselves manage them, or their ‘people’ do. And of course each and every club has an online presence from which to put the best possible spin on the latest news.

But when web-based interaction was still in its infancy, everyone was still trying to get their heads around how best to convey themselves. And of course there are the late adopters who made their belated decision to jump on the bandwagon very obvious.

We thought we’d delve into the archives to pull out the first tweets of some of football’s biggest accounts, and the virgins’ tweets were certainly eye-opening…

Liverpool and Manchester City were early adopters and it showed, with personal tweets from the respective admins…

Newcastle United’s first effort was even more amateur…

https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1629560506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Arsenal, Man United and Chelsea were boringly polished from the outset…

Whilst Everton and Spurs jumped straight in, no intro, just cracking on with the news of the day…

As for Stoke City, their first tweet was…very Stoke City…

Gary Lineker admitted it was his son George who coaxed him onto Twitter (and the many millions of ‘shat’ replies)…

Whilst Arsenal fan Piers Morgan took the piss out of himself before anyone could…

Joey Barton, Wojciech Szczesny and Jens Lehmann all joined to thwart the copycats, but only the latter managed to sound like the Terminator…

https://twitter.com/13Szczesny13/status/29407989284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Gary Neville’s first act was to take the piss out of brother Phil…

Whilst Robbie Savage was straight in talking about pimping up his ride…

Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane are our personal favourites for these wonderfully random efforts…

Both Aaron Ramsey and David Alaba managed to include incongruous references to serious world events in otherwise cheery messages…

You may have assumed Jamie Vardy would be tweeting about chatting shit or indeed getting banged, but his first act was a generous retweet for a commendable cause…

We think (hope) Jimmy Bullard was joking with this effort…

Whilst Michael Owen started as he meant to go on with thi…Zzzzzzzzz

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Topics:

Football,Twitter