Earlier this week in one of the biggest surprises in the history of world football, the Premier League’s Manchester United was taken to the cleaners by League One side MK Dons in a Capital One Cup match by the ridiculous score of 4-0. Many football fans had probably never heard of MK Dons before Tuesday but that did not stop them from dominating one of the biggest clubs in world football.
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Louis Van Gaal did not send out his first choice eleven but the squad still included some big names like Danny Welbeck and Chicharito so that excuse falls flat. The best part of that defeat is that it lead to one of the great Twitter hashtags in quite some time, #ThingsBetterThanManUtd. We may be a few days late on catching on to this trend but it is so awesome that we had to share our favorites. Here are some of the best tweets featuring it.
#thingsbetterthanmanutd under water hairdryer
— paddy sneath (@sneathy) August 26, 2014
“@FootyAccums: #ThingsBetterThanManUtd?” Celtic's Champions league campaign
— mike 🆎🇨🇻 (@Coups96_) August 26, 2014
That Adam Sandler movie where he plays a man and a woman #ThingsBetterThanManUtd
— A.G. Shook (@Updownleft122) August 27, 2014
Floyd mayweathers reading ability #thingsbetterthanmanutd
— Sean Lockyer (@19sean90) August 27, 2014
#ThingsBetterThanManUtd David Moyes' managerial record.
— Dave Walker (@Dave_Walker18) August 27, 2014
anzhi makhachkala's current starting eleven #thingsbetterthanmanutd
— Sebo (@Sebo1793) August 27, 2014
Fernando Torres Chelsea career... #ThingsBetterThanManUtd
— Gareth Webb (@Garethwebb1) August 26, 2014
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