Alejandro Garnacho deserves the same treatment as three Manchester United players

Players used to be much more forthright on Twitter. When it was in its infancy, Darren Bent used the platform to vent as Daniel Levy played hardball over his imminent departure in 2009.

"Seriously getting p****d off now," Bent tweeted, minus the asterisks. "Why can't anything be simple. It's so frustrating hanging round doing jack s**t.

"Do I wanna go Hull City NO. Do I wanna go stoke NO do I wanna go sunderland YES so stop f*****g around, Levy. Sunderland are not the problem in the slightest."

Ashley Cole labelled the FA a "#BUNCHOFT**TS". Carlton Cole once replied to a chiding Tottenham fan with, "F**k off, you c**t."

Jadon Sancho's statement in September was deplorable but also somewhat admirable. He bluntly accused Erik ten Hag of lying.

But Sancho's generation is passive-aggressive. The concept of knocking on the manager's door is alien to them even when his office is in the same building as the dressing room.

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All Alejandro Garnacho has achieved in liking tweets from a YouTuber overexaggerating what Ten Hag said at his post-match press conference is to undermine his manager. Garnacho should eschew any Joleon Lescott 'pocket-tweet' excuse, publicly apologise, accept any proportionate punishment and prepare for Sunday's FA Cup semi-final.

It is worth providing Ten Hag's answer to this correspondent's question on whether Garnacho's substitution at Bournemouth was tactical in full: "I think we had to repair over the right side. We didn't play well, the spaces were there. In possession, we had to bring a sub there.

"Garnacho was during the week not