West Ham Owner David Gold Retweets ‘Missing Person’ Plea….For West Ham Winger Michail Antonio

Chris Wright

5th, November 2015

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West Ham owner David Gold has certainly suffered his fair share of high-profile Twitter gaffes in the past few years.

Whether publicly favouriting Tweets about sacking his manager (and then blaming jet lag) or welcoming the arrival of one black player with a photo of another, old Goldie certainly has a clanger or two in him.

Indeed, his latest error has seen Gold retweet a ‘missing person’ plea sent to him from a fan.

The keen-eyed among you might just recognise the face…

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Oblivious to the fact that the man in the photo is West Ham winger Michail Antonio, the Hammers chairman simply assumed he was doing somebody a good turn and immediately retweeted the post…

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However, the “missing person” in question just so happens to be a man on whom Gold spent/wasted £7million to acquire from Nottingham Forest a little over two months ago.

You could perhaps forgive Gold for not having a clue what Antonio looks like given that he’s played just 30 minutes of first-team football for the Hammers since joining on deadline day, but still…