As I am sure you're aware, football is back. The 2016-17 season officially begun last weekend. The curtain raising of the new Premier League season was marked with a Zlatan Ibrahimovic debut goal, a 7 goal thriller at The Emirates and a contentious Diego Costa up to his usual tricks, yet the best story emerged from Romania of all places.
With August typically renowned for a slow paced Community Shield final, the early rounds of the Champions League, where Europe's finest compete against teams named after insects (Sorry- Grasshopper Zurich) and Harry Redknapp hanging out the window of his newest 4X4 as the sunsets on the summer transfer window, the greatest stories usually lie in the obscurest of places. Enter the Steaua București social media guy.
Last night Manchester City beat Steaua București 5-0 in the first leg of their Champions League qualifying play-off. Despite a Sergio Aguero hat-trick the real heroics of the night came courtesy of twitter…
(Warning contains profanity)
Nicolae Stanciu va fi căpitanul echipei în acest meci crucial contra celor de la @ManCity! #NS10 pic.twitter.com/QGs4w6HQ3C
— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
A relatively quiet start. The excitement of playing one of Europe's biggest teams is a big occasion. And rightly so.
Kun Aguero ????? — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
This was the reaction to Sergio Aguero missing a kick from the spot in the 8th minute.
Kun Aguero does it again! ?????? ?????????????????????
— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
And then again 13 minutes later…
Here's the thing @ManCity fans! You support a club bought with oil money made illegally! You have no history! You just have money! ??? — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
We may lose this game 10 nil! But we've lost to a team with no history! If your the oil guy decides to leave you are dead! ???
— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Despite trailing 2-0 at half time. Steaua București were more than dominating the battle of social media.
Champions League 1986. Champions League 1989 finalist! European Supercup winner!! STEAUA!!! https://t.co/W006RrB8eC — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
A team with no history? Read about the greatest night in Steaua history here!
BREAKING NEWS!!! Owner of Oil FC decided to quit! Man City sent to the conference! ????! I wonder how many gallons of oil is the club worth?
— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Forget Stoke on a Thursday night. Could David Silva do it at Woking on a Thursday night?
Until the Oil money guy leaves! Then back to relegation fights! ???? #OilTalks https://t.co/TjYA1ZQFQd — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
I don't really know what to say about this. Could this week's away game at The Bet365 Stadium already be deemed an infamous ‘6 pointer'?
Sorry can't see the past 5 years! Covered in muddy oil and money made illegally! https://t.co/E0ZCRIQyeU
— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
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Min 60: Steaua 0-3 Little tiny Man Utd! #ThoseNoisyNeighbours Are man city playing in dark blue because they are turning into oil? ???? — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Min 65:
Steaua 0-3 Man Utd wannabes! #OilCity #ItsAllAboutTheOil
— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Min 70: Steaua 0-3 #OilCity MANCHESTER IS RED!!! Oil can't cover it! It can buy a part of it for a little while! But that's it!???? — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Min 78: GOAL! #OilCity Scores a player that would have never played for ManCity without oil money! #LittleTinyManUtd ??? — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
It was pretty obvious at which half of Manchester they would rather be playing
Min 83: Steaua 0-4 #OilCity Like Pep came to ManCity because of their history! ????? #PepIsBald #OilClub — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
#PepIsBald
Steaua 0-5 Little Tiny Man Utd We lost! But who cares! Once the oil guy leaves Man City's top game will be against their U21's! ???? — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Final result Steaua 0-5 Man City Bad luck for us oil made you relevant and now you think you're big and mighty! Give it a couple of years! — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Manchester City may have won the match (And inevitably the tie) but it was Steaua Bucuresti who won the hearts of the football community.
cc @aguerosergiokun ??? pic.twitter.com/Pnqn1yCwMv — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Sergio Oilguero! via @Cheers_geoff pic.twitter.com/C7ydddiyHQ — Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Despite the game lasting 90 minutes, the social media guy wasn't finished there. There was some choice advice for the Hat Trick hero.
How to become a big club: #OilFC
✅ find person with oil
✅ beg them to buy your club
✅ tell your fans it's worth it
✅ think you've done it!— Steaua București (@FCSteaua) 16 August 2016
Lastly, Steaua Bucharest have released their plans for the immediate future.
It remains to be seen whether this is the official club account or whether its a parody. But I think secretly, we all have our fingers crossed for the former.
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