FA slammed after tweet about England Women

Updated 06/07/2015 at 15:13 GMT

The FA scored an own goal when the England team returned from the Women’s World Cup, with a badly misjudged tweet.

England players pose with their medals after their victory over Germany in the third place match of the FIFA 2015 Women's World Cup at Commonwealth Stadium. England defeated Germany 1-0 in ext

Image credit: Reuters

The Lionesses were knocked out by Japan in the semi-finals last week after an unfortunate own goal from Laura Bassett. However, they beat Germany in the third-place play-off and arrived back at Heathrow airport on Monday.

Welcoming the squad’s return, the FA tweeted: “England Women went back to being mothers, partners, sisters and daughters on Monday morning, but over the past month they have taken on another title – heroes.”

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But the post was swiftly criticised as “patronising”, “condescending” and “out of touch”.

It was later deleted.

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