Top 10 tweets that embarrassed footballers

#3 Wayne Rooney

Manchester United superstar Wayne Rooney is the top goalscorer for his club and one of the best footballers of the generation. But the 31-year-old doesn’t quite know how Twitter works.

Rooney has come up with many epic tweets, but his masterpiece arrived on 18 May 2011 when he tagged ‘himself’ and wrote, “I’ll put u asleep within 10 seconds u little girl. Don’t say stuff and not follow up on it. I’ll be waiting.”

Rooney got into a Twitter feud...with himself!

Rooney, you’re a legend, mate!

Oh, so this is what he meant