Michael Stewart rounded off an incredible day in the spotlight with a late night Spanish tweet. The irony was lost on no-one.
The Edinburgh based pundit had been making headlines all day after his appearance on BBC Scotland’s Sportsound programme with host Kenny MacIntyre desperately trying to distance the broadcaster from his comments.
Running in tandem with Stewart’s comments was a growing awareness that the words attributed to Alfredo Morelos weren’t quite accurate, or as one Colombian journalist put it’ the worst translation that I’d ever seen. The sometimes mangled ‘Google Translates’ would have blushed at the version served up by Sky Sports.
Stewart’s knows the mood of the country outside of the media bubble, with almost 80,000 twitter followers he has enormous reach across many different groups.
Matching the two ‘Theme’s of the Day’ on Monday wasn’t going to be easy but as he settled down for the night he set Twitter alight, again, with a classic Spanish comment.
Imposible agradecer a todos los que han estado en contacto hoy, ha sido increÃble la variedad de personas que han estado en contacto, pero agradezco cada palabra de apoyo y aliento. Seguiré diciéndolo tal como lo veo. 2/2
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) February 4, 2020
Well played that man. Genius. Keep em rattled.
— John Whalen (@gcfcjohn) February 4, 2020
What’s the Spanish for Chapeau?
— pablo5 (@pablo567) February 4, 2020
Michael this 2nd tweet…….I think you’ve just won the internet?
— Timposter (@Tim_Poster) February 4, 2020
Brilliant! Keep doing the job others are too scared to do Michael! Scottish football has needed this for ever!
— Scottsman78 ? (@Scottsman1978) February 5, 2020
Don’t let sky translate
— Bring yer title challenge bitches (@TheStarOfTheSh2) February 4, 2020
Scottish football is unparalleled for patter
— Wolfe Of Parkhead ???????? (@ParkheadWolfe) February 4, 2020
We need this backbone at Celtic.
— Magic Bhoy (@magic_bhoy) February 4, 2020
??????? michael keep it up
— @CelticBhoy1888 (@Celt_Bhoy1888) February 4, 2020