The club have deleted the tweet and have since apologised, but the episode still didn’t go down too well, not least amongst Wolves supporters.
The number of football clubs embarrassed by social media faux pas has steadily been on the increase of late, but there has arguably been no one instance as controversial as the tweet sent by the official Walsall account to their Wolves counterparts last night.
Walsall claimed a first victory over their bitter rivals in 14 years at Molineux last night and whoever was operating the club’s Twitter account in the immediate aftermath of the game decided to rub it in, albeit in an extremely unsavoury manner.
@JOEdotie Walsall official twitter after defeating Wolverhampton tonight. pic.twitter.com/4b4joPlsQ8
— Paudie fahey (@sigmatool1) September 17, 2013
The tweet was subsequently deleted but not before screen grabs of it had circulated around the internet and enraged many Wolves fans on Twitter.
Walsall subsequently apologised for the tweet, posting a link to their Facebook page via their official account to a statement which read: “Walsall FC would like to apologise for some unsavoury comments which appeared on our Official Twitter feed earlier this evening after the account was hacked.”
WALSALL FC would like to apologise for some unsavoury comments which appeared on our Official Twitter feed earlier… http://t.co/o1dKH1hNn0
— Walsall FC Official (@WFCOfficial) September 17, 2013
The episode goes to show the need for tighter control of social media by sporting clubs but Walsall aren’t the first club to be embarrassed by what’s posted on their social media accounts and they probably won’t be the last either.
Hat-tip to Paudie Fahey for sending this one into us
