The online persecution of the Manchester United defender has gone beyond humour into a much darker area
‘Name a better footballer than Phil Jones.' The construct is a social media trope: an invitation to a pile-on, angled to elicit a storm of replies ever more absurd and vitriolic, driven onwards into an eruption of thousands of sub-quarrels along football’s tribal lines that generate the precious engagement. All of it running from the principle of the original tweet itself.
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