Pre-season football will always involve some unfamiliar faces.
Whether it’s new signings, returning loanees or youngsters getting a chance to rub shoulders with the first team, you’ll often find yourself watching players in a certain club’s colours for the first time.
There can be a lot of legwork involved in identifying some of the lesser spotted players, but it’s still important to get their names right. Especially if you’re running the official social media account of the tournament in which they are playing.
Now, the name Josh Onomah is one that some of us might not recognise. The Spurs youngster has played just 20 times for the club, and you could *maybe* forgive the International Champions Cup for stumbling over the spelling of his name.
We say ‘maybe’. One letter out of place might be forgivable. But spelling his name ‘Marcus Edwards’ is one hell of a typo.
Teenage midfielder Edwards is another one of the unheralded names who featured for Mauricio Pochettino’s teamin the International Champions Cup game against Atletico Madrid in Melbourne.
It’s an easy mistake to make. They’re both English, they’re both midfielders and they both play for Tottenham.
Well, it would be an easy mistake to make if they didn’t look nothing like each other.
Here’s Onomah.
And here’s Edwards.
It's decided. Getting a Marcus Edwards gold shirt. Already better than Ozil #COYS pic.twitter.com/0oEemWcRcb
— Hotspur Hacker (@HotspurHacker) July 29, 2016
Sure, both have dyed hair, but that’s it.
Luckily those who spotted the social media error offered some gentle and constructive criticism.
https://twitter.com/LewisClarke15/status/759016592147517442
https://twitter.com/leighhbennett/status/759016876869423105
https://twitter.com/EriksenFK/status/759016865171595265
Still, at least it’s not a club owner mixing up two transfer targets, eh.
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