FC Spartak Moscow’s twitter account...

[Rozay]

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And there’s plenty more. Who would have thought the Russians will be leading the pack in terms of comedy?!

 

[bond19821982]

What's the context? Why are they behind Chelsea?

 

[Tiber]

The Birmingham one is great

 

[Rozay]

What's the context? Why are they behind Chelsea?

Chelsea are currently shite, and Spartak are offering them a home if they want a new club to support.

 

[Pace Abuser]

I find official club account "banter" cringe. Leave it to the fan accounts

 

[No Love]

They’ve been at this for a while, haven’t they? I don’t mind it. Better than everyone posting the same, generic tripe. Mind you, I think they said something fairly benign about Phil Jones that a lot of people around these parts took to heart, so it’s not for everyone, it would seem.

 

[Amar__]

Official football clubs twitter accounts trying to be funny is never funny. Roma is the leader of not funny twitter accounts. Official means official and it shouldn't write gibberish.

 

[Alemar]

This is why there are several football clubs in Moscow - not all people approve of borderline jokes from official club accounts. Especially when it relates to entirely different country and league.

 

[WakeAndBeek]

It’s like when companies like Wendy’s and McDonald’s try and banter each other, I guess it’s slightly more entertaining than the usual club Twitter posts such as 300 different pictures of the latest training session.

 

[2 man midfield]

If it’s funny it’s funny, doesn’t matter to me who says it. I personally found them taking the piss out of Tottenham pretty funny.

 

[redshaw]

Do they bother doing this for Spanish or Italian teams?

 

[Borys]

If it’s funny it’s funny, doesn’t matter to me who says it. I personally found them taking the piss out of Tottenham pretty funny.

Me too, don't mind any club* doing it.

*other than United

 

[RedChisel]

Urgh this whole banter comedy is really tiresome. It's just comedy for unintelligent people.

 

[rcoobc]

What's the context? Why are they behind Chelsea?

Yes I don't understand either

 

[T_Model101]

Aren't all of these "banter" accounts ran by the same London PR agency?

 

[NinjaFletch]

Aren't all of these "banter" accounts ran by the same London PR agency?

I think there's definitely the whiff of homogenous, corporate 'edginess' about them to suggest that this is very possible.

But why not? We're talking about Spartak Moscow on Redcafe, that's a big tick for their social media manager.

 

[rcoobc]

The funniest thing is that Graelish liked their tweet or Instagram or whatever where they mentioned that "even Birmingham city won this"

And Spartak in return tagged Villa who haven't won anything in 25 years

 

[rcoobc]

Wouldn't it be great Craig if 20 or so foreign guest clubs where invited to join the league cup each year.

Like the Premier League U23 international cup but interesting.

Give half the spots to the other home nations.

 

[Chipper]

Extremely cringeworthy.

What's the point anyway, are native English speakers going to start supporting Spartak Moscow, buy their merchandise, fly out to Russia to catch a game as a result of this? No.

 

[Adam-Utd]

Just a way of getting more fans / followers from foreign youngsters. Smart really!

 

[redshaw]

I think there's definitely the whiff of homogenous, corporate 'edginess' about them to suggest that this is very possible.

But why not? We're talking about Spartak Moscow on Redcafe, that's a big tick for their social media manager.

If it's by some London agency, probably best deleting the thread no?

Come across as incredibly sad trying to drum up support in this fashion from a London based firm.

 

[ROFLUTION]

Where's the funny part?

 

[Demyanenko_square_jaw]

Quite a few club accounts seem to do this sort of thing. Russian ones have been like this for years and the English language ones had definitely have the feel of outsourced corporate PR.

the remnants of Spartak's anti-establishment cred from the Soviet years died for this.

 

[Bubz27]

What's the context of Frank saying support someone else?

 

[Globule]

What's the context of Frank saying support someone else?

It was a Christmas campaign to encourage people to support others who feel isolated or are struggling with mental health issues.

 

[Bubz27]

It was a Christmas campaign to encourage people to support others who feel isolated or are struggling with mental health issues.

Thanks.

 

[DWelbz19]

Awful awful stuff. It’s been going on for about 4 or 5 years now — it’s very vogue for these European clubs to hire someone to look after their English account to make cringey banter for cheap interactions.

I actually recently saw a LinkedIn status of a guy who created a few meme twitter accounts and within a week they had about a million followers and bucketloads of interactions.

 

[DWelbz19]

Aren't all of these "banter" accounts ran by the same London PR agency?

Not sure who runs them, but I’d imagine they’re all outsourced to very similar companies to do the work. Very similar levels of humour that often follow what the trend is.

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

I find official club account "banter" cringe. Leave it to the fan accounts

It’s not about cringe or not, this type of stuff gets interactions. Interactions are king in social media these days

 

[Chipper]

It’s not about cringe or not, this type of stuff gets interactions. Interactions are king in social media these days

Isn't monetisation more important? Could have a small imprint but if those people are all sending money your way directly or indirectly then that's got to better than a large number of interactions without much in the way of financial reward.

Not really seeing how they'll make money here. They don't have many followers anyway, teams in the conference have more. Even if there were loads, 12 year old English speakers following them are not going to financially benefit a Russian football team. They'll already have their own clubs who they support, who they'll actually ask their parents to spend money on.

 

[Cheimoon]

Not sure who runs them, but I’d imagine they’re all outsourced to very similar companies to do the work. Very similar levels of humour that often follow what the trend is.

Also far too in-the-know about the English football word and English joking to be run by locals from the countries these clubs are from (like Russia and Germany).

Marketing's a bore.

 

[Lay]

I used to find it amusing a few years back but seems like every football account is the same person typing away making the same jokes

 

[amolbhatia50k]

Official football clubs twitter accounts trying to be funny is never funny. Roma is the leader of not funny twitter accounts. Official means official and it shouldn't write gibberish.

I agree. I don't think official Twitter handles should delve in his low level nonesense. Besides they're really not even genuinely funny so it isn't even worth it.

 

[el3mel]

This is cringy more than funny. If I am following my club's account, it's for news, announcements and stuff, not for taking digs at teams from completely different league.