What a year it's been
After a rather vacant 2020, this year was when football picked up again and the content machine went into overdrive.
The Super League fiasco, an incredible Euro 2020, Lionel Messi leaving Barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo going back to Manchester United, Jack Grealish and his calves going to Man City, Newcastle's Saudi takeover, Barcelona being in financial ruin, and all the other mad shit I've forgotten about, gave us quite the year of tweets.
Here are some of our favourites. Yes, we've included a couple of ours. Sorry if we ignored one of your bangers. Drop them in the replies. Enjoy.
January
It wasn't the easiest start to 2021 for anyone. A perfect visual representation of how we all entered the new year after the worst 365 day period of all time.
https://twitter.com/TiagoEstv/status/1347631267962089472
No explanation needed for this one.
https://twitter.com/chorleyfc/status/1347911844464381952?lang=en
Never under-estimate football Twitter's ability to turn a threat to democracy into memes.
https://twitter.com/fistedaway/status/1346928709119471629?
Shout out to all the Cockburns out there. It can't be an easy life.
https://twitter.com/stevecockburn/status/1346787833764315136
If you say so, Steve.
https://twitter.com/JonnyGabriel/status/1355107464832823301
February
Then there was the time we discovered Dermot Gallagher has been Anglicising his strong Dublin accent for a British TV audience, and we lost our collective mind.
https://twitter.com/waynefarry/status/1359785257902485506
A timeless deconstruction of the banal punditry that curses our screens far too often.
https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1362003614101893121
Still waiting on the original audio for this.
https://twitter.com/MicahRichards/status/1358562690344566785
Someone, please stop politicians from using footballing analogies.
https://twitter.com/ReubenPinder/status/1363449317361598467
https://twitter.com/MyGuyRudi/status/1364291869413429249
March
That's the real quiz.
https://twitter.com/SanMarino_FA/status/1375199720948305924?
Ah, the José Mourinho era at Tottenham.
https://twitter.com/Billie_T/status/1372634122078846979
Hasn't aged well, but a brilliant use of one of our headlines. Chapeau.
https://twitter.com/JKnowsBall/status/1367555411314946057
All that's missing is a never-ending chorus of boos.
https://twitter.com/PQCFC/status/1370423288292380682
The greatest match promotion tweet ever sent from a club account.
https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1368320813473075205
That time Christian Benteke used World Book Day to remind the world of the biggest smash and grab in recent history.
https://twitter.com/chrisbenteke/status/1367469728697114628
April
THE SUPER LEAGUE TWEETS. Some absolute bangers in here.
https://twitter.com/PaddyArsenal/status/1384589974142656519
https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1384055571821727745
https://twitter.com/jonawils/status/1384590372786085898
https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1384587722627682316
https://twitter.com/rogbennett/status/1383868064165339141
https://twitter.com/_Zeets/status/1384177923834335235
https://twitter.com/tom_usher_/status/1384072838395555843
May
Maybe we should re-evaluate the way we analyse missed penalties.
https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1391081531247140867
https://twitter.com/Reemzestilo/status/1392605878692495360
This one was particularly prophetic...
https://twitter.com/SamMcGuire90/status/1391088877943894016
Hope his head wasn't too badly hurt after this.
https://twitter.com/Stevie__may/status/1396139682791137281
Return of the King.
https://twitter.com/charles_watts/status/1396460367153451014
A true Premier League great departs.
https://twitter.com/aguerosergiokun/status/1396542084304281609
Liverpool Alisson sent Twitter into a frenzy with his last minute winner against West Brom, but nothing quite topped this brilliant stat from Richard Jolly.
https://twitter.com/RichJolly/status/1393987713209090052
https://twitter.com/GraceOnFootball/status/1393659153495859207
The Turkish Süper Lig continuing to be batshit.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1393658129502642177
June
The Euros kicked off in June, and there was no shortage of entertainment.
https://twitter.com/36Johns/status/1403704783643590656
Until the BBC suffered some technical issues during Turkey vs Wales.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1405202380828856321
Scotland might have only scored one goal in their three group games, but at least they had this absolute banger as a soundtrack.
https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/1404421676620816391
Holland once again proved to be a disappointment.
https://twitter.com/Ankaman616/status/1404162240941547523
Turkey being a complete flop in the tournament after everyone tipped them as dark horses was a particular highlight.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1405205017825624067
July
For many fair weather fans, the Tiny Football Car was the best bit of the tournament. And fair enough, it was very cool.
https://twitter.com/TinyFootballCar/status/1412845306891341825
Even God was getting involved when England conceded their first goal of the tournament to Denmark.
https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1412846761450741760
As England reached the final, Euros fever got a hold of all of us.
https://twitter.com/Thandietweetss/status/1412889698834558981
Never forget Tyrone Mings dunking on our awful Home Secretary.
https://twitter.com/OfficialTM_3/status/1414655312074784785
August
Transfer silly season always kicks into gear in August.
https://twitter.com/_collinsville/status/1423345895207284743
https://twitter.com/EvanMcFarlane/status/1423343927399223304
Do you want the options again?
https://twitter.com/MatchoftheDave/status/1423594535494590464
https://twitter.com/CFCDUBois/status/1423331743432683522
The footballing world was rocked by news of Messi leaving Barcelona, but few will have been more fearful than Ligue 1 defenders.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1425515644347371526
https://twitter.com/greenaugustus12/status/1425101195518128135
When you see it...
https://twitter.com/DanielDPrescott/status/1426921281065213954
Kit launch of the year: Crystal Palace getting their oldest fan, 101-year-old Pam, to do the photoshoot for their home kit.
https://twitter.com/CPFC/status/1422587984885420037
September
Simple but effective.
https://twitter.com/SmnLlyd5/status/1436036768181129218
One regular day of CONMBEOL. All I ask for. Will never happen.
https://twitter.com/TomasORuanaidh/status/1434602205466841090
It was always going to be Burnley to do this, wasn't it?
https://twitter.com/Zonal_Marking/status/1429031468622401540
Ronaldo's return to Old Trafford saw everyone fly off the hinges a bit...
https://twitter.com/OllieHolt22/status/1436723463817990161
An underrated Twitter moment: Patrick van Aanholt calling Mateo Guendouzi 'likkleman.'
https://twitter.com/pvanaanholt/status/1443704333774770181
Still wish we could have seen Graeme Souness' reaction to his.
https://twitter.com/utdreport/status/1436755634129620998
https://twitter.com/SebSB/status/1437118556618039297
October
Long after Frank Lampard's departure from Derby, Leeds fans continued to mock his reaction to spy-gate.
https://twitter.com/EamoV1/status/1450475033185374215
*Chef kiss*
https://twitter.com/JohnBrewin_/status/1449788968116031489
When Rob McElhenney realised just what he'd got himself in for as his players mopped the pitch dry.
https://twitter.com/RMcElhenney/status/1444329846625030145
November
Any excuse to show you this again.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1462007227166908419
Solskjaer's sacking feels like longer than six weeks ago, doesn't it?
https://twitter.com/AdamCrafton_/status/1462085361757208589
https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1462194597824761862
Sure he was smiling on the inside...
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1461664236220919808
December
The managerial merry-go-round was in full swing as Lampard was linked to every bottom half job available, but decided none of them were quite right for him.
https://twitter.com/FootballJOE/status/1459181359533068291
Leeds' injury crisis saw them turn to a literal 15-year-old to fill a space on the bench.
https://twitter.com/FootballCliches/status/1472261159730434049?s=20
Perfect.
https://twitter.com/TamsellicsonIII/status/1472715996943241221
Oh yeah, and the Champions League draw had to be re-done due to a mistake. Thankfully for Chelsea, they still ended up with Lille, and made the most of a great opportunity on social media.
https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1470398980735574026
This clip took the world by storm in late December, but the numbers would dictate she should have passed.
https://twitter.com/xGPhilosophy/status/1474460410258546693
Be more creative with the presents, fellas.
https://twitter.com/MatthewStanger/status/1474716323284402177
And the year signed off with John Terry getting really into NFTs of sad looking apes. No, we don't get it either. This was very funny though.
https://twitter.com/SmnLlyd5/status/1475207000652984325
Happy New Year, folks. Here's to another year of great tweets.
