San Marino might have lost their World Cup qualifier in Norway on Tuesday night, but there was still cause for celebration for the 201st best team in world football.
Mattia Stefanelli’s 54th-minute equaliser was the first goal the nation had scored in 15 years of World Cup qualifiers, and although the team would eventually be on the wrong end of a 4-1 defeat, it was still a memorable moment.
Although the goal sparked scenes of wild celebration amongst the San Marino team, you may have already seen that it didn’t go down too well with a certain group of Norwegian pundits.
https://twitter.com/aHellofaBeating/status/785934571686813696
Covering the game on Norwegian TV, the footage of their reaction quickly spread across social media, and was also reported on by The Sun, who used the above tweet from Liverpool fan Christian Wulff in their story.
With many Liverpool supporters boycotting The Sun following their inaccurate reporting of the Hillsborough disaster, Christian later explained that he’d changed his Twitter name to ‘Don’t Buy The Sun. JFT96’ upon realising his tweet had been featured in the article.
https://twitter.com/ahellofabeating/status/786115435980783616
Hours later, another tweet from Christian confirmed that The Sun had indeed noticed, and presumably removed the tweet…
https://twitter.com/aHellofaBeating/status/786180933762289664
…But the move still went down well with his fellow Reds…
https://twitter.com/PaddyBrennan7/status/786217705959370752
https://twitter.com/RimMyArseM8/status/786196366770966528
https://twitter.com/BigDoc87/status/786188028045848576
