David de Gea has somehow rattled Man Utd fans from beyond the footballing grave

As Britain shivered on the first Saturday of December, prompting millions to fully step into Christmas and get that f*ckin tree up, one resident of Cheshire unleashed the heat of a thousand suns with a single tweet.

Not that the culprit is an unknown assassin. David de Gea remains in England despite leaving Manchester United after 12 years in the summer and took to social media on Saturday evening to comment on the freezing conditions.

With a single frozen emoji, Madrid-born De Gea expressed his feelings about the English weather before going to bed. He must have awoken to a veritable snowstorm of hate from United fans smarting at their side’s 1-0 surrender at Newcastle the previous day.

“Even though he’s not there any longer, this attitude and childlike behaviour encapsulates much of the attitude issues United have faced over the past decade,” read one tweet, presumably sent from Alicante or Barbados where the temperatures weren’t baltic.

“He’s been needy and snide for months, retire gracefully.”

Meanwhile, another bedroom Genghis Khan wrote: “He’s genuinely a sick, toxic weirdo, always has to tweet some cryptic emoji as soon as things are going bad for us, absolute freak.” Say how you really feel, mate.

“His emoji antics, which are always well-timed with some event at the club has more or less confirmed for me the reports of him throwing tantrums when Ole dropped him,” read another tweet, written between bouts of salty tears.

“There’s a child in there somewhere that’s not accepted adult life yet.” It was literally snowing last night. Everything doesn’t have to revolve around football. Accepting that fact is the first step towards adulthood, one most of us take before we leave our teenage years.

“Can’t believe some of you