Chelsea fan account shamefully fabricates Eddie Howe quote – Behaviour almost as bad as Chelsea owner | OneFootball

There is embarrassing and then there is this Chelsea fan embarrassment.

Almost as bad as how the Stamford Bridge club’s owners go on, certainly one of them.

Todd Boehly heads up the ownership group at Chelsea.

Earlier this week the West London club bragged about the action they are taking to try and stop ticket touting.

Yet at the same time, Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly is also a director at Vivid Seats, a company and website that facilitates the selling of tickets at prices far above face value.

The definition of “Ticket touting” – ‘It refers to the act of buying tickets for events and then reselling them at a higher price, often for profit.’

Vivid Seats list tickets for all Premier League matches at prices far beyond the actual price on the ticket, they also do this for all kinds of other events. Most recently, Newcastle United fans found that Vivid Seats were selling tickets in the Newcastle United areas (as well as Liverpool sections and neutral ones) for thousands of pounds.

Anyway, where was I, of yes, the total lack of class at Chelsea.

You can’t stereotype all the fans of any club, however, this particular Chelsea fan has almost matched the behaviour of his club’s co-owner…

This Chelsea fan Twitter/X account publishing a ‘quote’ from Eddie Howe after the Carabao Cup victory; “I’ve won the same number of trophies as Mikel Arteta, so I must be a world-class manager too.”

Hilarious or what?

No doubt pretty much all of you will instantly have said “Nonsense”, or words to that effect…

Eddie Howe would never behave like that, say such a classless thing.

This Chelsea fan simply lying, totally fabricating this ‘quote’ from Eddie Howe.

I am guessing that one or two of you might be asking what’s the harm, this is obviously just banter, having a laugh, everybody knows this isn’t supposed to be taken as true…

Well reading the reactions to that Chelsea fan tweet, sadly the overwhelming majority are just taking that quote at face value, that it is what Eddie Howe has said. Loads of them getting very abusive about Eddie Howe and provoking them to say all kinds of outlandish things in response.

The thing is, the truth is important. Why would the ordinary man/woman in the street not think that something posted as a quote isn’t the truth? This Chelsea clown account is somebody with hundreds of thousands of followers and has even paid to have a blue tick, just to prove how credible he is…

Social media is just so horrific and getting ever worse, particularly worrying when more than any other age group, it is younger people who rely on social media for their news, their truth, what they use in helping to form their own opinions.

If like this Chelsea clown, everybody just makes up quotes of what people in the public eye (didn’t!!!) say, where does that leave us?

I am a big fan of George Orwell, no, he didn’t play for the Toon back in the day, but he wrote some canny books.

George Orwell went big on the importance of truth and especially what the implications are when the truth is no longer the…truth, here are just a few examples of his genius:

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

Of course, we are only talking about football on this occasion, 22 blokes kicking a ball around a football pitch and at the end of it, Newcastle United win a trophy at Wembley!

However, the truth is important in football, as it is in all walks of life.

The future of truth in social media?

Well, safe to say I reckon if George Orwell was around today, he would have a bit to say about it.

Whilst these examples of the Chelsea fan and behaviour of the Chelsea co-owner are worrying enough.

What about earlier this week when I highlighted what Liverpool FC are up to?

It certainly appears that they care nothing at all either about the truth, just like that Chelsea fan looking for attention and anything he can get for himself through lying, through not telling the truth, can Liverpool FC say they are any different?

As you can see below, they are quite happy to publish anything on their official media regardless of how true or not it is, clearly trying to gain an advantage for themselves by trying to unsettle Alexander Isak. Why else would you publish something such as this?

My earlier article this week on The Mag about the shameful Liverpool FC site on Tuesday 18 March 2025:

Just when you think you have seen it all online, this piece has appeared on the official Liverpool FC website about Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak.

I am absolutely staggered.

What on earth are Liverpool FC playing at.

Have they no shame whatsoever?

This headline from the official Liverpool FC site popped up on my Newcastle United online feed:

‘Liverpool make ‘contact’ over Alexander Isak transfer as fresh claims made’

We get used to seeing all kinds of extreme nonsense that you instantly dismiss because it is the usual shameless media sites with their cheating headlines and/or totally made up stories.

However, this is the OFFICIAL Liverpool FC website, their club’s own OFFICIAL media.

What on earth is happening I thought.

Liverpool have clearly now made it official that they have been in contact with Newcastle United to try and sign Alexander Isak.

Absolutely gutted, I clicked in to see the full story on the OFFICIAL Liverpool FC website…

‘Liverpool make ‘contact’ over Alexander Isak transfer as fresh claims made

‘Liverpool are continuing to be linked with a move for Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak ahead of the summer transfer window.

The Reds do not have long to wait before the market opens and they are able to strengthen their squad with new signings.

Isak has been tentatively linked with a move to Anfield in recent months, particularly since the January transfer window.

(This story has been reproduced from the media. It does not necessarily represent the position of Liverpool Football Club.)’

When reading this, I went from feeling gutted, to becoming very very angry.

What on earth are Liverpool FC playing at?

They can’t have it both ways.

They can’t publish that headline and reproduce this absolute nonsense, then say by the way, this is nothing to do with us, it is just what this website (Liverpool Echo) is saying about us!

The thing is, it is a factual thing they are stating in that headline on the OFFICIAL Liverpool FC site, that is being put out around the internet.

Liverpool FC as a club are saying ‘Liverpool make contact over Alexander Isak transfer’…

They, Liverpool FC, know whether or not this is fact, or whether that headline is totally untrue. Have they made contact with Newcastle United or not?

I think quite clearly they haven’t done so BUT have gone down this quite shameful route of trying to unsettle Alexander Isak, by pushing this headline out.

Their attempted get out clause is that bit where they say ‘It does not necessarily represent the position of Liverpool Football Club’…

It is beyond laughable, why are Liverpool FC as a football club choosing to do this, there can be only one reason why they are putting the headline and story out, repeating it from the equally shameless Liverpool Echo. There is no good reason for doing this, only very grubby reasons that show Liverpool FC up for what they really are.

So is any rubbish in the media fair game for Liverpool FC to put on their own official website, are there no limits to what they are prepared to publish/republish?

To do this only two days after Newcastle United totally dominated them on the pitch and deservedly won the Carabao Cup, Liverpool a distant second and the scoreline very much flattering them. It very much feels like a below the belt bitter attempt by Liverpool FC to get some retaliation, to try and undermine Newcastle United