Footballers and the dreaded social networking.

SDTimeout

Footballers are like you and me, only they have massive talent and get payed to do what they love. Unless you are Benoît Assou-Ekotto.

Past couple of days i have noticed these particular tweets.

cesc4official
Whats the diference between this handball & my 1 vs spurs? Referees dont want us to complain abt them but they make life dificult 4 themself 9:51 PM Dec 29th via web

How can you not get frustrated with decitions like that going ALWAYS Man Utds way?! Its a clear pen and sending off! 15 minutes ago via Twitter for iPad Retweeted by you and 100+ others

53Szczesny53
I don't understand why some of you get frustrated with me for saying this. The decition was shocking! FACT! What a goal for WBA btw! 3 minutes ago via Twitter for iPad Retweeted by you and 29 others

Personally i think it's good. Players are getting more vocal and unless curbed by the managers of the team i can see it causing a stir and highlighting ref's bad calls more and more.

Thoughts ?

3hn2givr7mx1sc

The two of them just come across as complete whingers, tbh.

everdead.ie

Benny is a legend man turns up to games in a smart car

Can be issues if they talk about injuries and stuff should stay away from those sites I think it is so easy to say something that would reflect badly on your club

DH2K9

At least it shows they actually give a fcuk unlike half modern day fottballers these days. Both of them are completely right by the way.

Essien

I got bored of Twitter after a day or so, but I do occasionally check up on TheBig_Sam, he's fucking mental.

SDTimeout

Essien wrote: »

I got bored of Twitter after a day or so, but I do occasionally check up on TheBig_Sam, he's fucking mental.

One of my favorite twitters is the BigSams. I also found two other very good ones around the time of the world cup announcements that looked promising but shockingly low followers.

http://twitter.com/SeppBladder
http://twitter.com/MikelPlatini

Mitch Connor

My problem with'53Szczesny53 ' is that he is a liar.

His original comment was that United ALWAYS get these decisions. You only have to look at our last game where we lost two points because the ref/lino didn't notice an offside, a foul or a handball in the one move.

KaiserGunner

Mitch Connor wrote: »

My problem with'53Szczesny53 ' is that he is a liar.

His original comment was that United ALWAYS get these decisions. You only have to look at our last game where we lost two points because the ref/lino didn't notice an offside, a foul or a handball in the one move.

The decision on tuesday was debatable though. Gary Nevilles was a stonewaller. He also got lucky not to be sent off against Stoke in the first half, which yas went on to get the three points. Will probably happen again in this match.

Mitch Connor

KaiserGunner wrote: »

The decision on tuesday was debatable though. Gary Nevilles was a stonewaller. He also got lucky not to be sent off against Stoke in the first half, which yas went on to get the three points. Will probably happen again in this match.

It was not debatable. It was a clear handball, offisde vs Philips and a foul on Rio. It should NEVER have been allowed to stand.

Fact is, United did not get a call they SHOULD have got on Tuesday - if United ALWAYS get the decisions as WS states, the ref would have been looking for any reason not to allow that goal, and there were 3 real reasons not to give it.

Mitch Connor

Has WS tweeted saying how frustrating it is when the refs don't see clear handballs after seeing United not get one there... we do ALWAYS get the decision after all.

Essien

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Has WS tweeted saying how frustrating it is when the refs don't see clear handballs after seeing United not get one there... we do ALWAYS get the decision after all.

Just out of curiosity have you never heard anyone loosely use the word "always" and not actually mean literally 100% of the time? I always hear it.

fkt

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Has WS tweeted saying how frustrating it is when the refs don't see clear handballs after seeing United not get one there... we do ALWAYS get the decision after all.

You should get out more

Mitch Connor

Essien wrote: »

Just out of curiosity have you never heard anyone loosely use the word "always" and not actually mean literally 100% of the time? I always hear it.

he reiterated the comment saying it was a FACT.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

I suppose you've never heard of this?

Essien

Mitch Connor wrote: »

he reiterated the comment saying it was a FACT.

He said the decision not to award WBA a peno earlier was shocking, thats the point he reiterated with FACT and rightfully so. And again, have you never heard anybody loosely use the word fact at the end of statement which may not actually be fact? If not, take an earlier posters advice and get out more.

That_Guy

EDIT: Wrong thread.

Ordinary man

I can understand people paying heed to fabregas. Fair enough he has won trophies, world cup etc. But listening to the rambling of a young goalie who isn't good enough to be first choice ahead of manuel and flappy is taking the piss.

SDTimeout

Then one would wonder why some people pay such heed to posters on here considering all of their football achievements...

adox

Football has a lot to learn from rugby.

Footballers do enough moaning on the pitch as it is, without spitting their dummies out on Twitter.

Nemanja91

Trying to get a cheap shot at United are ya? How come they don't tweet about Jerome Thomas' handball or Zigic's handball

SDTimeout

I'm not trying to get a cheap shot at United. The mentality on this forum seems to be everyone is against my own team.

I first wanted to bring it up after the Arsenal match with Cesc's tweet but felt i didn't have enough to warrant a thread on it.

Pauleta

FFS its attitudes like the ones shown on this thread that is the reason footballers interviews are absolutely rubbish and there are feck all characters in football. Nobody is allowed show any personality due to fear of Johnny Giles wannabe's who think everyone should just keep there mouth shut and stick to cliches so not to offend football fans. Grow some balls and accept that people have opinions and stop trying to force people who might have something interesting to say to keep them to themselves. People complain about pundits on the likes of BBC and Sky for not criticising anything. The truth is they cant because stupid football fans complain in their droves when they do. I remember Darren Bent posted something on twitter about the beach ball incident against Liverpool. It was funny until he was inundated by clowns going mental because he joked about it. When Patrice Evra joked about giving Ireland a replay on the playstation there were hoards of people baying for blood. Football fans are so thin skinned.

adox

Or how about the petulant little bunch that most professional footballers are these days, first and foremost learn to respect the game and authority that goes with it.

There can be plenty of characters in football without undermining officials and opposing teams.

Spouting ****e on Twitter does not show any personality or create "characters".

The ****ing diving cheating moaning complaining etc etc is making a mockery of the game.

Professional Griefer

KaiserGunner wrote: »

The decision on tuesday was debatable though. Gary Nevilles was a stonewaller. He also got lucky not to be sent off against Stoke in the first half, which yas went on to get the three points. Will probably happen again in this match.

If you look at the replay, when Nevilles foot when over and made contact, and the same time to ball moved over to the right. Did not make it easy for the ref. Had the ball continued its path, it would have been given as a peno.

GLaDOS

Personally I love seeing the real side of footballers (as much as they actually show anyway). Sometimes you forget that they're actually people, and football fans.

Pauleta

adox wrote: »

Or how about the petulant little bunch that most professional footballers are these days, first and foremost learn to respect the game and authority that goes with it.

There can be plenty of characters in football without undermining officials and opposing teams.

Yeah because football fans show nothing but the utmost respect to refs and teams they play against :pac:

adox wrote: »

Spouting ****e on Twitter does not show any personality or create "characters".

Its better than the template response of "Well obviously i feel the referee could of done better and hopefully we can get a few decisions our way in the future.":rolleyes:

Mars Bar

Well that Polish keeper for Arsenal is getting a barrage of abuse about Arsenal not getting decisions after RVP diving for a free kick which they scored from!

3hn2givr7mx1sc

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Personally I love seeing the real side of footballers (as much as they actually show anyway). Sometimes you forget that they're actually people, and football fans.

Yeah it's nice to see them speak their mind, but the Fabregas and PiG no.2 are just whinging.

Be interesting to see if PiG no.2 has anything to say about the free-kick tonight.

tallaghtmick

i have a feeling that personal "issues" with other players will come out on twitter,should be fun to see players from rival clubs slagging each other off.

Mitch Connor

Can't wait to read about Woj 's frustration and outrage following the van persie dive for the free they got their goal from then van persies handball that didn't result in the penalty it should have.

Ordinary man

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Can't wait to read about Woj 's frustration and outrage following the van persie dive for the free they got their goal from then van persies handball that didn't result in the penalty it should have.

He was sitting beside wenger so obviously didn't see it;)

Peyton Manning

Glen Johnson on Paul Merson just now:

Comments from alcoholic drug abusers are not really gonna upset me and who is Paul Merson to jugde players, He was average at the best of times, the only reason he's on that show is coz he gambled all his money away. The clown!

What a cúntish thing to say. Stay classy Glen.

Tom_Brady

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Glen Johnson on Paul Merson just now:



What a cúntish thing to say. Stay classy Glen.

Might speed up his exit.

If he did post that it's disgusting. What was it in response to I wonder?

The Muppet

rarnes1 wrote: »

Might speed up his exit.

If he did post that it's disgusting. What was it in response to I wonder?

Agreed, Merson must have been analysing Johnson's midweek performance, football focus perhaps???

Pepe LeFrits

hah, Merson was twice the player Johnson is.

lordgoat

I'm no fan of Mers but he was twice the player glen johnson ever will be.

What a pri ck.

tommyhaas

I dont see what the problem is, Merson criticised Johnson and Johnson reponded by criticising Merson, so what?

Xavi6

Johnson has deleted the tweets. Best bit of back tracking he's done all season.

DOC09UNAM

tommyhaas wrote: »

I dont see what the problem is, Merson criticised Johnson and Johnson reponded by criticising Merson, so what?

Mersons criticisms weren't Personal, it's not that hard to spot the difference.

The_Kew_Tour

Jesus if Man United player said same thing, it be outrage, on media and everything.

#15

tommyhaas wrote: »

I dont see what the problem is, Merson criticised Johnson and Johnson reponded by criticising Merson, so what?

Merson criticised his footballing performances.

Johnson takes a swipe at Merson and brings his addiction problems into it.
As has been said already, that's a massively cúntish thing to do.

Johnson - shíte player, shíte tweeter.:)

Paully D

Tom_Brady wrote: »

Glen Johnson on Paul Merson just now:



What a cúntish thing to say. Stay classy Glen.

This is coming from the same man who robbed a toilet seat from B&Q :pac:

Whatever he thinks about Merson's comments he certainly wasn't ''average''. He was a top player and had more talent in his little toe than Johnson (the £18m defender who can't defend) has in his whole body.

adrian280582

adrian280582 wrote: »

Jesus if Man United player said same thing, it be outrage, on media and everything.

http://www.tfhp.org/images/tinfoil-hat.jpg

darsar

Essien wrote: »

I got bored of Twitter after a day or so, but I do occasionally check up on TheBig_Sam, he's fucking mental.

Surely that's not Sam tweeting. I checked twitter for first time in ages yesterday, that can't be him and getting away with it in the media.

SDTimeout

Theo apologised yesterday. Wonder if Berbatov is going to apologise today... less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPad

Jax Teller

Ryan babel posted this on twitter awhile ago




He's been investigated by fa now

The_Kew_Tour

Babel, what a idiot.

Jesus United had 2 stone cold penos turned down and nothing about them eh.

Keano

darsar wrote: »

Surely that's not Sam tweeting. I checked twitter for first time in ages yesterday, that can't be him and getting away with it in the media.

No it's not him.

everdead.ie

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

Ryan babel posted this on twitter awhile ago




He's been investigated by fa now

Surely that's bringing the game into disrepute he could get into a lot of trouble for that

jaykay74

from bbc...

1819: Breaking news: The Football Association has opened an investigation after Liverpool winger Ryan Babel posted a digitally altered picture on Twitter of referee Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt.

flahavaj

If I was a manager I'd ban all my players from twitter and the like. They obviously haven't the brains to use them without bringing their clubs into disrepute. Babbel like, what was he thinking, and Johnsen yesterday as well.