By now, you’re probably familiar with Twitter user WeahsCousin. But just in case you’re not, let us fill you in.
He’s the guy who fooled more than a few people into believing a faked quote from Iceland’s Kari Arnason after Iceland beat England at Euro 2016.
He has previous with other doctored and fantastical quotes, and it all came to a head when some of his ‘facts’ about Gibraltarian team Lincoln Red Imps were read out on Sky Sports News.
But the prankster might have taken things as far as he could, with one of his first ‘victims’ debunking his latest effort.
You may remember one of WeahsCousin’s most famous ruses came during Neville’s short-lived spell in charge of Valencia in La Liga.
After Los Che suffered a 7-0 hammering at the hands of Barcelona, the following ‘quote’ did the rounds.
https://twitter.com/WeahsCousin/status/695009800334241796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
It was completely fabricated, of course, but perhaps people wanted to believe it so much that they took it at face value.
Now, they say you should never return to the scene of your crimes, and now we have evidence of why.
WeahsCousin tried floating another pearl of Neville wisdom on the internet to liven things up ahead of Manchester United’s trip to Anfield on Monday night.
https://twitter.com/WeahsCousin/status/787671788964765696
Unfortunately he didn’t count on the natural scepticism of the internet. Actually, it’s probably more likely that he did, but went ahead with it anyway.
Still it didn’t take too long until people’s natural inquisitiveness took hold, prompting Neville to shut down the claims.
https://twitter.com/LiamPLEdwards/status/787726752948822016
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) October 16, 2016
And to think. He would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those Nevilleing kids.
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