The emergence of social media and the power it yields to a global audience it's no wonder that sportsmen and women use it to convey their thoughts and feelings to keep their followers/fans up to date with what they're doing. However, this week Joey Barton has been told to stop tweeting his predictions for matches and indeed some feel his direct contact with the Chairman of QPR had some sort of sway with Warnock leaving the club. Concentrating on football, most players have a twitter account ( our own Captain doesn't though and good on him) but my question to my fellow Fulham 606ers is, if you ran a club would you ask your players not to subscribe to this social media? Here's what Dickson Etuhu just tweeted as an example: DicksonEtuhu Dickson Etuhu Left behind again... Wow My thoughts on this are why broadcast this to the world, why not speak to the manager and let your feelings known to the people who can do something about it.
I don't agree with it but it's human nature. When you're happy or outraged, your natural reaction is to tell people. I'm surprised Etuhu has posted that as I remember Jol placing a Twitter ban on the team earlier in the season, me thinks he might be on the way out in the next week or so.
I'm with Bandit on this one - it's human nature... Etuhu is frustrated and I don't blame him. Best thing for him to do., though, is find a lower-league team who'd take him on loan. Etuhu would be a great addition to a team struggling on defense. Crying on twitter won't help.
Briggs, Frei, Schwarzer, Stockdale and J A Riise all tweet very often. Players should have enough common sense not to tweet things that will get them in trouble.
Agreed. If I wrote on my Facebook "Work was **** today, I wish my boss wouldn't keeping getting me to do X or Y" in the full knowledge my boss would eventually read it, I'd expect a bollocking. By all means let your players tweet, but not about internal issues.
Obviously Etuhu's tweet was an attempt to secure a move away from the club. I'd have thought after we rescued his career from being in the Sunderland reserves he would have shown the club a little more respect than this. If you want to move clubs as you're not getting enough game time, fair enough, but don't hang your dirty laundry out in public for all to see. It creates a poor image for the player more than anything.
As usual, Bandit is spot-on again. Anyone can have a Twitter account but we all know twits who don't think about what they write, or maybe Dickson knows exactly what he's doing.
