Football fans made a hash of Twitter

Nostalgia is an awareness that we ruin everything. And so it is with Twitter, which will celebrate its 10th birthday on Monday, with everyone pining for the good old days of 2011 or 2012.

It promised a lot back in its pomp, Twitter. And it has certainly changed sport, football anyway, in important ways.

Most notably, it has cut, slashed even, the window of appreciation of a great goal; a top, top, top, goal, if you like; a “goal of the season contender”, in old money.