An Australian betting site has earned the ire of Twitter uses for a distasteful tweet about the girlfriend of Manchester United striker James Wilson.
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The tweet showed a photo of Wilson with his girlfriend arriving at United's Player of the Year awards night on Tuesday, it was captioned: "Sure she's a lovely girl but someone needs to remind James Wilson he's a pro fooballer. Start abusing this privilege."
The tweet which was published on Thursday afternoon has since been deleted and Oddschecker have posted an apology.
Apologies for the offence caused by our earlier Tweet - it's now been deleted.— Oddschecker Au (@OddscheckerAu)
May 21, 2015
@edwin_smith1 @OddscheckerAu odds someone there is looking for a new job: $1.05— Jon Tuxworth (@Tuxy81)
May 21, 2015
Saw story about @OddscheckerAu's abuse of James Wilson's gf. Awful. Can't stand these betting sites' Twitter accounts trying to be "lads"— Michael (@MichaelHi92)
May 21, 2015
@OddscheckerAu I am experiencing problems with your company being full of sexist knobs. Can you help with that?— Brendan Maclean (@macleanbrendan)
May 21, 2015
@OddscheckerAu hope the person who Tweeted it has been deleted from their job too!— SydneyChicBlogger (@DebCarrNetwork)
May 21, 2015
Disgraceful that we need to remind people like @oddscheckerau over and over that #WomenareNOTapunchline @JennaPrice pic.twitter.com/CaCNMBQZv6— Hera Magazine (@HeraMag)
May 21, 2015
