The kid has been suspended by the club. ****ing jokeshop. A CELTIC starlet faces a carpeting for slating former club captain Gary Caldwell after his Wigan team lost 4-0 to Man United. Cocky Mark Barrowman, 16, tore into the Scotland star in a Twitter rant over his performance in Tuesdayâs game. Barrowman wrote: âGary Caldwell is a shocking football player.â One fan said: âMarkâs got no right to be knocking anyone. âHe needs to pay his dues on the pitch and make a name for himself before slagging off other players.â Defender Barrowman, who plays for the Hoops and Scotland U17 squads, has 654 followers on the social media site. Wigan skipper Caldwell, 30, has yet to respond. He last posted on Twitter in November, and has written just 10 tweets for his 189 followers. No one was available for comment from Celtic or Wigan last night. Read more: http://www..co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...#ixzz2Gu3MS27g
Someone has to teach this young boy some respect and manners. It is a pity, his parents If he has any, didn't teach him before now. Better late than never.
So how many other people comment on football player's performances on twitter? Just because he plays the game himself, doesn't mean he isn't entitled to air his opinion. ****ing joke to suspend the lad for it.
Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea , if people stopped criticisizing footballer performances On twitter. People don't go around discussing joiners performances on twitter. I thought it was deemed bad practice to fault publicly a named individual of your own profession .
Clubs should ban players from using Twitter. Very few of them can string a sentence together and they just talk a load of ****e. In fact that goes for 99.9% of stuff on Twitter.
The club will have rules about what staff and players can say in online forums. He's broken one of the rules, so he should get punished.
I daresay the lad may have been out of order as far as the club rules are concerned but there would appear to be an unwritten rule that players don't or won't criticize others in the same profession which I find a bit bizarre in it's 'closed shop' approach. The trend for ex-footballers to be employed on TV as 'expert' pundits is also something that grates with me - they appear to hold on to this unwritten rule by and large as well. I find most of them bland and boring - the idea that having played the game at professional level automatically makes them ideal as TV pundits is a nonsense. There are many fans who could do the job better ... including some posters on here.
By the way Reb - I see 'In Treatment' (a double header) starts again tonight at 11:30pm (UK time) on Sky Atlantic.
I imagine Timmy Mjallby broke the law, let alone club rules when he was at Celtic. I imagine Neil Lennon probably has too. If there are rules then they must be applied equitably. It seems incredibly trite to suspend him for such a thing. If indeed that is what the suspension is for. Maybe this is a Jim McGuinness thing? Just speculating.
