Charlie Austin calls out backlash from social media users about old TikTok video of his

Charlie Austin calls out backlash from social media users about an old TikTok video of his when he was out playing in Australia.

Barstool Football (aka @StoolFootball on Twitter) uploaded the clip of him eating pizza on his own missing his daughter’s birthday back home.

In 2022, he was playing for Brisbane Roar, but after 11 games and four goals for them, he requested termination of his contract citing family related reasons.

He then returned to League Two club Swindon in December 2022.

The account wrote: “The only downside to being a professional athlete? 🤔”

Austin captioned the video: “When it’s your daughter’s birthday back home and you’re alone having a pizza for one.”

But fans reacted with some claiming “money would change this feeling”

@chazaustin10 responded to criticism: “Just to let you all know this was last year when I was in oz obviously not recent!! 🛎️ ends”

The only downside to being a professional athlete? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/8SFl6F6d19

— Barstool Football (@StoolFootball) July 11, 2023

This is what is being said as Charlie Austin calls out backlash from social media users about an old TikTok video of his…

@LondonR: Worst “football” account on Twitter, pal. Embarrassing.

@Jamie53159065: I wouldn’t have given this account the publicity its going to get from you mate, they’re absolutely useless 🤦‍♂️🤣

@MaxHargreaves15: tell em chazza

@st3ve89: Fair play Charlie, recently had my first daughter. No one knows what it’s like until you’re in that position. Would kill me. P.s you’re welcome at Barnsley 😂

@BenzlWashington: Man there are some right divs in those replies

@HickyDavid: Some people should be ashamed of themselves, people talking like he has millions so he should be happy. Mental health and loneliness has nothing to do with money. He’s upset he’s not seeing his daughter on her birthday. This is why men don’t open up and so many take their lives

@tom22s: Don’t have explain yourself mate, your strong for doing what’s needed to support your family👌🏻

@Jones1758Matt: Don’t understand what the issue is here. Why the furious reaction? They’ve simply taken a video you uploaded while in Australia, and asked their followers if it’s the “only downside to being a professional athlete”. I don’t see any criticism insinuated by them.

@Carlos194855: Still whinged about it though, doesn’t matter when it was. You made that choice to chase the money nobody else, grow a set!

@ImJamieMartin: People saying money would change this feeling…. would it? Any event in life could happen – money doesn’t buy happiness, money doesn’t buy time, money doesn’t buy family.

@HarveyW25218869: I’m sure he’ll make it up to her by buying thousands worth of gifts with the money he’s getting paid for staying in that 5 star hotel

@Rileyroo1306v3: shame give me 40k a week and i’ll happily be in his position

@mjciteh: Nothing compared to what us regular people go through.

@IKop96: I’m sure when he checks his bank account every week he won’t be feeling too bad

@fellowhumanbeen: Waiting for people to realize that money isn’t going to magically make people forget about being isolated and missing important moments in the lives of their loved ones

@KhalifaMCFC: I saw my boy just before his 2nd birthday for the first time because I work in another country and in these 2 years what I have earned an average footballer can do it within 3 days

@GW7201: He can retire and get another job if he wants?

@STEFANCOYS: People love to talk about mental health but when it comes to a situation like this completely dismiss it. I’m sure it’s genuinely awful for him regardless of what he can buy her

@_williamsg96: Must’ve been hard to swallow that pizza knowing he’s made over 20 million kicking a ball about

@TonySatski: It’s not just footballers who miss their daughters birthday uno. How about any person with a job not near their home???

@gonshelf: Money comes and goes – time and events just go. You ain’t getting them back sadly – so can empathise with C Austin here 💯

@nick_tweeets: Been there.. not as an athlete but someone that worked away too much. I reflect on it a lot. You can’t buy memories.

@njah09: State of some of these comments. Why does what you earn dictate how much you can miss your kids etc? One even said for 40k a week they would be happy to do it. So as long as you can chuck money at them being with them doesn’t matter. Weird mentality people.

@jb2fo8: Cos you’ve worked hard to get yourself into a good position apparently you should be happy to miss out on family milestones n memories 👍 fairs

@LukeChels: It was my sons 1st birthday on Monday and 40 grand a week still wouldn’t have made me feel any better had I missed it. Footballers are easy targets because of their wage but they’re still parents.

@K_Motson: A man good enough to play professional football, is getting hate for missing his daughter because he has money. What the actual fuck is the world coming too. Maybe if you people slagging him off actually did something with your lives, you wouldn’t be bitter about somebody else.

@Tatum1871: It’s always mental health until it’s a footballer who earns a bit of money. You Twitter freaks need to go outside man

@AO1865: Some of the replies are grim, the blokes a footballer not a robot, his job wether it’s very well paid or not puts a roof over heads and food on the table, that’s all we aim to do.