Marli Salmon fulfilled the dream of any young footballer: signing their first professional contract with Arsenal.
But social media focused not on the signature, but on how they did it. The way they held the pen became a trend, and not exactly for good reasons.
“Watching how they hold their pen, it really was football or nothing”, a user wrote on Twitter, and the comment summed up the feelings of thousands.
Amid laughter and memes, one thing became clear: as a writer, Marli Salmon is a great footballer.