Manchester United got three points today and moved back to the top of the Premier League table. A very banged up squad, extremely depleted in the attack, benefited from a very late own goal given up by Watford. United Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger affected Troy Deeney into putting it in his own net and giving the Red Devils a 2-1 victory.
This prompted United’s shirt sponsor Adidas to celebrate, in the most bizarre, inexplicable way possible.
Watch below as Schweinsteiger is now part machine, with t-shirt cannons for arms. His cyborg weaponry arms shoot red United t-shirts out into space where one lands perfectly on an astronaut. All the meanwhile, an astro double decker bus zips by in the background.
What this has to do with anything, who knows?
We have lift-off @BSchweinsteiger. Initiate @ManUtd celebration sequence. #BeTheDifferencehttps://t.co/SU5iVScuYG
— adidas UK (@adidasUK) November 21, 2015
Not the first time Adidas UK has published an extremely weird goal/victory celebration.
Go back to September 12th, after the victory over Liverpool.
Make a splash when it matters. @BlindDaley #BeTheDifferencehttps://t.co/qjWUetJnfP
— adidas UK (@adidasUK) September 12, 2015
Did Adidas mean to Tweet something else instead of this dolphin graphic? Why even utilize a dolphin in the first place? We get it “make a splash,” but what do dolphins have to do with the Red Devils, Daley Blind, Old Trafford exactly?
I guess we’ll never figure out what Adidas is thinking.
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