He's in hot water for calling some blokes mum a slag on twitter. Rio Ferdinand suspended and fined over Twitter comment QPR defender Rio Ferdinand has been suspended for three matches and fined £25,000 by the Football Association for comments he made on Twitter. The 35-year-old ex-England captain has also been "severely warned as to his future conduct" and told to attend an education programme arranged by the FA. It is believed the misconduct charge related to a comment where he used the word "sket". The definition of the term is "a promiscuous girl or woman". On 1 September, Ferdinand wrote the tweet thought to have led to the charge in reply to a message sent to him suggesting his team needed a new centre-half. He was tagged in a message that read: "Maybe QPR will sign a good CB (centre back) they need one" and wrote back: "get ya mum in, plays the field well son! #sket" - a Jamaican slang word. Ferdinand, who made the last of his 81 appearances for England in June 2011, is a member of FA chairman Greg Dyke's commission looking at how to improve English football. The ex-Manchester United centre-back has sent more than 14,000 tweets since joining the social networking site in 2010. I don't know why these pillocks haven't been told to sack twitter off. Far more trouble than it's worth, make them entirely accessible for abuse.
That's all it is mate, all one big competition for followers and to be the biggest celebrity they can. Flaming halfwit.
His skills on the pitch have diminished to a level below Premiership quality. Therefore, this is what you get from an egotistical twat.
Rio Ferdinand 'baffled' by £25,000 Twitter fine and suspension Rio Ferdinand appears to have responded to his three-game ban from the Football Association for an offensive tweet, saying he is "baffled". The ex-England captain and QPR defender was also fined £25,000 on Tuesday having been charged with misconduct. It was believed to relate to a post where he used the word "sket" - defined as "a promiscuous girl or woman". Ferdinand, 35, tweeted on Friday: "Is humour even allowed....I'm baffled! Ludicrous...." Rangers team-mate Joey Barton then accused the FA of setting "a dangerous precedent" with the ban in a series of his own tweets on the subject. Barton tweeted: "3 games and £25k for a tweet? Come on." Ferdinand will miss the Premier League matches away to Chelsea, at home to Manchester City and away to Newcastle during November. He has also been "severely warned as to his future conduct" and told to attend an education programme arranged by the FA. Replying directly to Ferdinand, Barton added: "@rioferdy5 I have said way worse I am sure. Don't understand how you can be banned from football. It's nothing to do with it." The 32-year-old midfielder then asked the FA to send him "a list of offensive, ban incurring words" that he cannot use online and "the requisite bans attached to each". Yes Rio, calling someones mum a slag is hilarious.
Sorry disco but I've done that with my mates and with people I don't know so can't actually see the issue. If you elbow a player and fracture their cheekbone its a 3 game ban... If you humorously call someone's mother a slag (something most have done or a word similar) you get the same. He's an idiot for doing it but 3 matches is harsh
The FA like to look like they mean business and they do that by coming down over-the-top hard on ridiculous issues like this! Ask them to get involved in things that are ruining our great game and they hide like cowards!
Wants equality for black people but not women. There's more women in the world than there are black people. He's a ****ing idiot.
Aye but no offence Marcus, no ****er gives a toss what people like us say. We don't get paid millions of pounds a year to act like professionals. Footballers shouldn't be on twitter or should learn to shut the **** up.
Totally agree. I'm the last one in the world to be a conspiracist but to me it definitely looks like there's something going on somewhere to stop his aspirations before they even have a chance of getting off the ground. He was being touted as a possibility of achieving a post at a reasonably high level in EUFA I think, then this over-the-top reaction to a meaningless misdemeanour is thrown at him. That's gotta be suspicious for ****s sake!!
An ex captain of England, just like Moore, Charlton etc, except this one has political football aspirations, not a good advert for modern English footballers. If a South American had come out with "madre la puta" (your'e mother is a whore) what then? Not many English would have put up with that. Communications are out there for all to read, and I doubt very much if anyone in the FA would know what sket meant, so maybe it has been drawn to their attantion by the League of Black Lawyers.
Not likely, what incentive do they have to shame Rio Ferdinand? If anything they'll be busy digging out all the white people's tweets on Twitter who've used the word 'Sket' and preparing a dossier to sue the FA for racial discrimination against Rio.
Original remark made with tongue firmly in cheek. Must admit I had never come across the word "sket" before so could only think of one body with possible connection to W Indies.
