Humblebrag? Twitter users mock Michael Owen's congratulations to Emma Raducanu …

She has achieved an incredible amount at the age of 19, capping off a fantastic year with a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.Emma Raducanu is so young that she was not even born when the footballer Michael Owen was a teenage athlete, captivating the nation with a summer of similarly precocious performances. Which is perhaps why he felt the need to educate her.Owen, now 42, sent a tweet congratulating Raducanu for winning the award, while noting she was “the same age as I was waaaaay back in 1998” – the year in which he won the PFA young player of the year award while playing for Liverpool and burst on to the international scene at the World Cup in France.The tweet was taken by commenters as self-aggrandisement, spawning thousands of imitations from commenters amused by what they saw as his attempt to perform a “humblebrag” – sneaking a boast in under the auspices of a magnanimity.Some have ironically replicated the format, referencing moments from their own lives such as “me winning the best tame tawny owl in Ferndale competition in 1982”, “me winning the hotel darts tournament in Mallorca in 2013” or even “me eating a sausage roll…
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