SIMON JORDAN: Garnacho petulant dig at Ten Hag shows ludicrous entitlement

Social media has become a toxic cesspit that often enables the worst of society to surface.

It is pretty much uncontrolled and allows anonymity, enabling cowards and breeding hate, discontent and divisiveness.

Those that run and control social media know that conflict and division generate traffic, none of which is for the good of society.

It drags people into unwelcome spaces, enables delusion and people of a very strange thought-process to connect with one another in a way that creates an echo chamber and gives people voices that perhaps they shouldn't have.

I'm not suggesting freedom of speech is something we should remove but, social media, on balance, does more harm than good.

Unfortunately, it's a reality, an everyday tool and part of life now. It does of course have merits but society would likely be a better place without social media.

But this is the world we live in. We take the benefits of pressing a button to order whatever we want instantaneously.

We take the benefits of being able to voice our dissatisfaction and call businesses out without having to go through the painful process of being told 'we really care about your call' while being put on hold for 45 minutes via an automated answering service.

Social media does have positive aspects. It helps raise awareness of injustices and charities but the inability to police it and the darkness of the world, tragically, means it has an ability to subvert everything.

So while there are positives, it's often used as a divisive, abusive tool.

And this brings us to football and the game's relationship with social media.

Manchester United's teenage winger Alejandro Garnacho landed himself in trouble for 'liking' a post that was critical of his treatment by Erik Ten Hag.

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