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You already know exactly how this ‘West Hamchester City FC’ tweet is being received

Published 19:24 6 Mar 2017 GMT

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You already know exactly how this ‘West Hamchester City FC’ tweet is being received

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Football Twitter can be a weird place.

Sometimes you simply can't be sure if something is a wind-up or is actually serious. While we're more than aware that the tweet below is almost certainly the former, many of those that have seen it pop up on their feeds in the last couple of hours believe that it was very much genuine. After a victory against Sunderland on Sunday afternoon, Manchester City closed the gap on table-topping Chelsea to just eight points. With Chelsea facing West Ham at the London Stadium on Monday evening, the tweet below called for City fans to unite with their West Ham counterparts in willing Slaven Bilic's men to a win, in the faint hope that a Chelsea defeat might open the door for a City title charge. As if the embarrassing badge didn't already make it clear enough that this wasn't genuine, just take a look at the actual words of the tweet...

'West Hamchester City'. Wow. As you might have guessed, people fell for it. Hook, line and sinker. There were 'delete' tweets a plenty... https://twitter.com/James_Halfpenny/status/838821044391661568 https://twitter.com/Hazardfied/status/838801188195876864 Calls for deactivation... https://twitter.com/FutbolSte/status/838824477903499266 And general outrage... https://twitter.com/TheMadBumble/status/838823609862848512 https://twitter.com/lazarus0608/status/838824104224518147 https://twitter.com/whujeff/status/838820602702082048 Catch up with the latest episode of 888Sport Football Friday Live

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You already know exactly how this 'West Hamchester City FC' tweet is being received