James Milner has been welcomed to Twitter by a popular parody account which labels the footballer as dull.

The Liverpool and England midfielder's first tweet after joining the social network on Thursday pictured him ironing a t-shirt.

The Boring James Milner account, which often describes his chores, tweeted back: "You know you've made it when someone makes a parody account of you".

The account started in July 2013 and has almost 600,000 followers.

Milner has gained 113,000 followers since Thursday.

The real Milner's debut tweet is not the first time he has poked fun at himself.

In 2014 while at Manchester City, the club made a video of him opening Christmas presents including kitchen utensils, stationery and a shovel which the midfielder said were "marvellous".