BBCDavid Luiz's mum trolling Aguero? It's the weekend's top football tweets
From spiteful stadium screens, to bad birthday cards and heavenly hashtags - this is the very best and worst of the footballing weekend on social media...
1. Manchester City’s big-screen operators show little foresight of football schadenfreude in the social-media age
Seriously, that’s several dozen square metres’ worth of the digital equivalent of pinning a double-page, negative newspaper review up on the dressing-room wall.
2. A little bit of history repeating
Sergio Aguero’s knee-high tackle on David Luiz - possibly, maybe, perhaps connected to the Brazilian’s crafty foul in the first half - was something we absolutely don’t want to see, but... well, he’s had some practice at it.
David Luiz's mum was not impressed, as she sarcastically pointed out on her Instagram feed...
(Translation: ‘I don’t understand the scared face when he took the red card! Poor baby didn’t do anything!’ according to The Metro.)
3. Birthday Boy Benteke’s Belated Booking-Based Banter
Ask a silly question, 'harri', and you’ll get a semi-viral answer.
4. Second-tier league, top-flight Twitter game
Anyone can beat anyone in the Championship, they say, which is probably why they feel battle-hardened enough down there to offer up such sauciness as this to the big boys in the TV-money dreamland of the Premier League. Yeah, you won’t be laughing when West Ham are coining it with the parachute payments, guys.
5. Bourne yesterday
Gary Lineker forged a reputation as a player for being in the right place at the right time. And now, for those of us who must compile lists of the best football tweets of the weekend, he’s doing much the same. Well done, Bournemouth.
6. Hashtag Heaven
Finally, one of these awkward-looking team combinations in a viable pun. #CRYARS is still the undisputed No.1, though.
7. Cookie Crumble
Bless Steve Cook - a defender who looks like he’d put you through a pub window for spilling his pint, but turns out he’s as charming as his club.
8. Top advice from the professionals
What’s this doing here? Well, just listen to Andre, boys and girls, and you’ll go far. (Really, no idea.)
9. Fellaini the Fall Guy
Three tweets that say it all. Next time Manchester United are 1-0 up with five minutes to go, perhaps Mourinho should substitute on these three tweets? Maybe print them off or something, and just let them float on to the pitch in the breeze.
10. The Magic of the FA Cup™
Careless, really.
11. Poetry
After all the weekend’s highly amusing chaos, some tranquility at the top.
