The Man United Twitter account is scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get an edge over Chelsea before Sunday

Google searches? Seriously?

Having to play second fiddle to the teams that have overtaken them in the Premier League must be tough for Manchester United to take, but their Twitter account is really stretching it in their attempt to claim an edge over Premier League leaders Chelsea before their meeting at Old Trafford on Sunday.

It seems fairly obvious that their most recent tweet is designed to plug the Manchester United account on Google+ but trumping the fact that Louis van Gaal has twice as many Google searches as Jose Mourinho is really clutching at straws.

Van Gaal or Mourinho? Who's the most searched-for manager this season? Our latest #GoogleTrend has the answer. pic.twitter.com/2Aa9HcDIvW

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) October 23, 2014

The tweet didn’t raise the possibility that the fact that LVG has twice as many Google searches might have negative as well as positive connotations, but as you might expect, some of the responses to the tweet were withering to say the least.

Football club Twitter accounts, will they ever learn?