Joe Gomez took to Twitter to congratulate Wayne Rooney last night.
The England captain scored his 50th goal for England, surpassing Bobby Charlton’s long standing national team record, as England won 2-0 against Switzerland.
Liverpool defender Gomez, like many other England fans, congratulated Rooney on reaching milestone.
However, some Liverpool fans on Twitter didn’t take kindly to a player congratulating the captain of bitter rivals Manchester United and the backlash became so great Gomez deleted the tweet.
https://twitter.com/JoshWoogs/status/641348835961212929
https://twitter.com/arenkennedy/status/641348550744391680
https://twitter.com/joeclfc/status/641348880114692097
https://twitter.com/ThomasS31966995/status/641349035261952000
https://twitter.com/Joe_Harrissss/status/641348745431379970
Thankfully, there were also some more level headed Liverpool fans who saw no foul in Gomez’s tweet.
Heard Joe Gomez had to delete a tweet wishing Rooney coz of LFC fans' abuse. This is seriously getting out of hand! Who are these morons!?!
— MM (@mmwrites) September 9, 2015
That is poor if a minority of our fans did abuse Joe Gomez for tweeting congratulations to Wayne Rooney. #LFC
— @DiscoStu442 (@DiscoStu442) September 9, 2015
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