An argument against banning footballers from social media.
The rise of social media has been brilliant in some respects, but for football clubs it’s just another way their players can make fools of themselves and show them up.
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Here are the worst moments of footballers on social media.
Mario Balotelli
Starting with the most recent and an Instagram post that has earned the Italian a one-match ban since from the FA.
The post featured computer game character Super Mario with a list of reasons why the plumber was multicultural, before finishing with, ‘Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.’
Joey Barton
If you like him on Twitter then great, but there are few players out there who have a greater presence on the Internet than they do on the pitch.
Also, for a player who has attacked teammates, been sent to prison and stubbed a cigar out in a youth player’s eye, his philosophy falls a little flat.
Ashley Cole
Following the FA’s decision to ban Chelsea captain John Terry his Blues teammate Cole defended the centre-back and was deemed to have lied.
This was followed with a tweet reading; ‘Hahahahaa, well done #fa I lied did I, #BUNCHOFT***S.’
Carlton Cole
Next up is how this West Ham United striker has managed to make a fool of himself online.
Cole tweeted “Immigration has surrounded the Wembley premises! I knew it was a trap! The only way to get out safely is to wear an England jersey and paint your face w/ the St George’s flag!” following a friendly between England and Ghana in 2011.
Rio Ferdinand
Another player now who has earned a ban from his tweets is this former Manchester United and England defender.
Ferdinand referred to the mother of a troll on Twitter as a ‘sket’, as well as dubbing Cole a ‘choc ice’ for defending Terry in the racism case involving his brother Anton.
Emmanuel Frimpong
If Barton is annoying on Twitter for his supposed philosophy, Frimpong irritates for his inane nothingness.
The former Arsenal man has a tendency to include #Dench in every single thing he posts – which is being seen less and less since his career spiraled downwards.
Ezequiel Lavezzi
An honest mistake from this Argentine – apparently – as some very intimate pictures of the Paris Saint-Germain attacker and a woman made it online.
Lavezzi was seen in some very compromising positions wearing just a policeman’s hat.
Leon Knight
The former Blues striker (yeah we forgot him as well) tried to get himself back in the limelight with a foul-mouthed and sexist attack on Danielle Lloyd.
Knight quoted Dr Dre lyrics suggesting women should be beaten and also hinted he knew intimate secrets about Miss Lloyd.
Samir Nasri
After being left out of the France squad ahead of the 2014 World Cup Nasri’s girlfriend Anara Atanes took to Instagram to hurl a torrent of abuse at Les Bleues manager Didier Deschamps.
Miss Atanes tweeted ‘F*** France and f*** Deschamps!’, whilst the Manchester City midfielder himself got in trouble back in 2011 by dubbing Gunners fans ‘disrespectful’ after he had left for the Etihad Stadium.
Jonjo Shelvey
Lavezzi really should have been more careful when posting pictures online if he had heard of the case involving Swansea City midfielder Shelvey.
Whilst still at Liverpool the Englishman’s cheeky friends posted a picture of his penis onto his Twitter account. The account was deleted shortly afterwards.
Steven Taylor
For supreme levels of stupidity here is a tweet from Newcastle United defender Taylor, who also probably got away a little easy with this one.
The centre-back posted a picture of four black people and labeled them as teammates Papiss Cisse, Vurnon Anita, Massadio Haidara and Moussa Sissoko.
Wojciech Szczesny
Finally it’s the current Gunners No.1 who after a golf event said of teammate Aaron Ramsey; ‘I don’t wanna be rude mate but you look like a rapist on that picture! lol.’
Szczesny later apologised stating that he had gone too far.