8 March was perhaps not the finest day in the history of Clyde FC, a club which has been going strong since 1877.
They were defeated 2-1 by East Fife, but before that, their official Twitter account shared a tweet from OnlyFans model Sophie Rain where she’d posted a picture of herself captioned ‘me or a PS5’.
The Clyde FC account had also shared a post from Tommy Robinson’s account. Neither of the posts had anything at all to do with football, and ‘whoops’ doesn’t quite cover it.
Clyde FC said they were investigating how this happened (X/@ClydeFC)
Later that day, Clyde FC put out a statement about the social media activity and said they’d launched an investigation to find out how this happened.
They said: “We’re aware of some unfavourable content that was shared on the club’s X account early this morning. Needless to say, this content does not reflect the views of the club.
“A full investigation is currently underway into the source of this activity.
“We also strongly condemn the personal abuse that has been aimed at members of the media team this morning, in particular, those without access to the club’s X account.”
Yesterday, Sophie Rain, who is one of the most financially successful OnlyFans content creators, responded to the furore, sharing a screenshot of the football club retweeting her post and joking ‘i guess you’ve changed your mind and chose the ps5 then?’
The OnlyFans model poked fun at the club (X/@sophieraiin)
Clyde’s fans seem to have seen the funny side to sharing the OnlyFans model’s post, calling the moment ‘Scottish football heritage’.
This isn’t the first time a football club has fallen foul of social media, and it almost certainly won’t be the last.
When Raith Rovers announced a contract extension for their full back Liam Dick, they opened the post with the words ‘Dick extension’, and you can guess the carnage that followed, as fans joked about the defender’s ‘hard tackle’ who also had ‘decent long balls’.
Of course, beyond sharing updates about the latest that’s happening with the club, and finding opportunities to take the p**s out of other admins, there’s also plenty of good that’s come from football clubs being on social media.
It would help if anyone posting from an official account for their job checked to make sure they’d switched from their work profile first though.
