Jason Puncheon Twitter rant - Round II

Anyone else seeing this?! Not aimed at Cortese this time, but Neil Warnock.


Jason Puncheon (@punch_jason) tweeted at 9:28 AM on Mon, Jan 13, 2014:
In the wake of a bad penalty and people's opinions and banter which I accept @mattletiss7 on @talkSPORTLive this morning gets it right...

Jason Puncheon (@punch_jason) tweeted at 9:28 AM on Mon, Jan 13, 2014:
What I won't accept is an opinion from a man who's crooked and ruining the game @talkSPORTLive NEIL WARNOCK the man who signs players...

Jason Puncheon (@punch_jason) tweeted at 9:29 AM on Mon, Jan 13, 2014:
Gives them extra wages n app bonus to make sure they pay him to get in the team or on the bench..

Jason Puncheon (@punch_jason) tweeted at 9:30 AM on Mon, Jan 13, 2014:
The fact he could even talk about training is shocking he was never there...

Jason Puncheon (@punch_jason) tweeted at 9:32 AM on Mon, Jan 13, 2014:
Everything else is banter and opinions and as a man I will live with that which is fine but I will not live with his opinion



DTLW

 

Rather agree with him on this one - Warnock's a horrible bit of kit.

 

You realise DTLW that you need to go on the Talksport website to tell us all what was said.

 

Unsurprisingly one of those tweets has been deleted. Guess which one?

This one still remains though https://twitter.com/punch_jason/status/420236529081286656

 

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Warnock, Redknapp, Allardyce, all cut from the same cloth.

In the game for what they can get out of it, ego & money wise.

 

Poor old Punch is going to be in bother about that (though I've no doubt there's probably truth in there). Did we take the £1.25m already........?

 

Poor old Jason must be hurting. He'll be hurting even more when he hears from Warnock's lawyers.

 

JP needs to come and have a chat with SRL about taking penalties, it is isn't as easy as it would appear.

 

It's not normally as difficult as Punch made it look on Saturday.

 

I'm not sure about that, after all it has to be untrue for it to be defamatory.

 

but the burden of proof would fall on JP.

 

Subtly different... it has to be proved to be true for it to not be defamatory (Innocent until proven guilty an' all that).

 

Maybe so, but if Warnock sued, he would run the very real risk of other people backing up Puncheon's story. It's very unlikely to be worth the damage to his reputation to open up that can of worms.

 

fair point, it would probably begin and end with a solicitor' letter and JP hastily removing his tweets, which he's already done.

it's not as if warnock's reputation is good anyway, an unsubstantiated accusation withdrawn won't harm him.

 

Luckily for Jason the libel law changed two weeks ago. As I'm sure he is aware. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25551640

To make a case Warnock would have to show "serious harm" to his reputation, so the bar has been raised from what you used to be able to sue for. He's welcome to try I suppose.

 

stable doors come to mind.

 

That's a good one

 

Feel sorry for Punch. Anybody can miss badly and have done, and it is obvious his mind was distracted when taking the kick. Like I said yesterday, David Beckham did exactly the same thing and blamed the pitch, but didn't suffer the direct ribbing because it pre-dated social networking mediums like Twitter. In fact, I think that ball he kicked can be found passing through the Orion constellation at this point. Beckham's reputation was hardly bruised by that, even when the opposition goalie scored from the same spot, to put his poor effort into perspective. You could see from Jason's face that he was crushed by that. He is, and will continue to be, hammered by this, I've no doubt. Hopefully, it won't be a stick to break him with.

 

I imagine Puncheon will get over it pretty quickly. All part and parcel of a professional footballer's lot.