On September 30, Amrinder Singh, the goalkeeper for the Indian National Football team, urged the media houses to stop tagging him in place of former Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh. In a tweet, the football player said, “Dear News Media, Journalists, I am Amrinder Singh, Goalkeeper of Indian Football Team and not the Former Chief Minister of the State Punjab. Please stop tagging me.”
https://twitter.com/Amrinder_1/status/1443460931736932353?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwIt seems that the current political drama in Punjab has found a victim who is not even remotely associated with Politics but plays football for the country. Footballer Amrinder Singh’s Twitter handle has been wrongly tagged by many Twitter users, including from media instead of former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
The possible reason for the goof-up could be the spelling of the names. Generally, when people spell the name “Amrinder” they do not use ‘a’ after ‘m’ but in former Punjab CM’s name spells with an ‘a’ after ‘m’. On the contrary, a football player’s name spells without the ‘a’.
Going by the habit, when someone searches for ‘Amrinder’, the first result comes out to be the player’s ID and it seems no one bothered to check if they are tagging the correct person.
Interestingly, he has been getting tagged instead of Capt Singh for a long time as several tweets from previous months were also found.
Footballer Amrinder Singh is Indian National Football team goalkeeper and ATK Mohun Bagan FC in ISL.
Amusingly, former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, too, joined in the fun with his namesake.
He quoted the athlete’s tweet and said that he empathises with him and wished him luck for his games ahead.