Old Kyle Walker tweet comes back to haunt him after Manchester City move from Tottenham Hotspur
He posted it in 2012 after Spurs lost to City
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Your support makes all the difference.Kyle Walker may be regretting his Twitter activity while a Tottenham Hotspur player after joining Manchester City.
The England right-back became the world’s most expensive defender when he signed for the Etihad club in a deal worth £50m, possibly rising to £53m, on a five-year deal.
The 27-year-old became City’s third summer signing after the arrivals of Bernardo Silva from Monaco and goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica.
However, upon the announcement of his transfer, an old tweet of his from 2012 resurfaced on social media, in which he labelled City fans as “glory fans”.
The tweet said: “All u Man City fans u can talk now we will just see at the end of the season.. Was u all there when City were no where to be seen [sic] #gloryfans”.
The post came after Spurs were on the wrong end of a 3-2 defeat to City in January 2012, in which match-winner Mario Balotelli escaped a red card for a stamp on Scott Parker.
He did later apologise for the tweet, explaining: “So gutted about the result today, sometimes football gets the better of you.”
Walker was also once filmed on a live periscope claiming to be “Tottenham ‘til I die”, and will face his former club in Nashville, Tennessee later this month as part of City’s preseason tour of the US.
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