West Brom vs Manchester United: Marouane Fellaini 'tracksuit' tweet comes back to haunt West Brom

Official Twitter feed mocked the Belgian before he came off the bench and scored a stunner

Simon Rice
Monday 20 October 2014 21:56 BST
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Marouane Fellaini celebrate scoring against West Brom
Marouane Fellaini celebrate scoring against West Brom (GETTY IMAGES)

West Bromwich Albion will think again before mocking their opponents.

Just before the second half got under way during their match against Manchester United, Marouane Fellaini was pictured on the sidelines taking his tracksuit off, readying himself to come on.

The Belgian international, who has been something of a target for those wishing to ridicule United, was duly readying himself to enter the field of play in place of Ander Herrera.

But before he did, West Brom's official Twitter account had time to post the following disparaging tweet.

It read: "Fellaini has now taken his tracksuit off, fortunately he has a Man Utd strip on underneath".

With West Brom leading 1-0, Fellaini came onto the field. But the scorline didn't stay like that for long.

The midfielder with the big hair used his strength to create some space before rifling the ball into the top corner of the net to bring things level.

West Brom were then forced to tweet the following...

The match ended 2-2.

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