West Ham United co-chairman David Gold does not have a good reputation when comes to handling Twitter.
Yet again Gold has proved the social media platform is not at all his happy hunting ground after he retweeted an abusive message from a Hammers supporter abusing his team’s on-loan defender Carl Jenkinson.
The supporter tweeted: “You are turning this good club into a great club. Thank you. So do the right thing and f**k off Jenkinson. He’s utter w**k.”
@whufc_official @davidgold utterly embarrassing that you would retweet this abuse of 1 of your players. Shameful pic.twitter.com/6lPQMNvnpp
— Paul (@PaulBrownAFC) January 24, 2016
Jenkinson had earlier fouled Sergio Aguero inside the box to gift a penalty to Manchester City during West Ham’s 2-2 draw at home on Saturday night. However, the foul was Jenkinson’s last contribution of the match as he hobbled off to be sustituted by new signing Sam Byram.
The former Birmingham chairman unexpectedly retweeted the abusive message, may be because he hadn’t actually gone through the second half of it.
However, 79-year-old Dvid Gold does have some bizarre previous records when it comes to social media blunders.
Back in November he received a tweet by a prankster, requesting to spread awareness of a “missing” West Ham supporter. Gold did it but later found out the so-called “missing” fan was West Ham winger Michail Antonio.
Not only that, a few months earlier the Hammers co-chairman accidentally made another blunder as he tweeted a picture of the wrong player when announcing the signing of new Spanish midfielder Pedro Obiang.
Gold actually welcomed Obiang to West Ham, but ironically posted the picture of 27-year-old Italian international defender Angelo Ogbonna, but later deleted it realizing his blunder.