Tweeting is never a good idea and it turns out this is even true if you’re the police. Both the Greater Manchester and Merseyside police departments demonstrated this over the weekend with their now deleted attempts at football related banter.
Following another lackluster performance from Wayne Rooney in Manchester United’s 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace, the weekend tweeter on one of the Greater Manchester Police’s accounts (“DS Dave”) decided to put out a missing persons alert on him…
‘Sign up her up, sign her up!’ Female police office does keepie-uppies on Wembley Way before the cup semi-final. pic.twitter.com/hDoT8Q6oge
— Harry H (@PutItInTheMixer) April 19, 2015
It appears that even the police can’t resist The Magic of The FA Cup as one officer took part in a kick around with a few kids outside Wembley before the semifinal between Liverpool and Aston Villa on Sunday.
Onlookers gave her a cheer and sang “sign her up, sign her up!”
Hopefully distracting people with a demonstration of footy skills catches on as a means of keeping the peace. The guy who filmed this should have been arrested for not doing so in landscape mode, though.