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Stupid stunt!

No, you mean Cupid Stunt surely?

Take the kid to a pub in the rough end of Plymouth. Let him start gobbing off at the locals and see if they stop at calling him nasty names.

Kid's a **** moron, he gave it all the mouth on Twitter and was rightly called a **** for it. He's whinging on about it being 'banter' (which shows him up to be a prize **** in the first place), then complains when he gets 'bantered' back. Alright, "**** off, ****" isn't especially clever, but then, effectively saying to a stranger, "oi mate, you're shit at your job" isn't exactly Two Ronnies material either.

Kid needs to either grow a pair, learn to be funnier or accept that you can't behave like that without repercussions. Either way, to hell with 'he's the captain of Exeter City', it doesn't matter. A stranger was rude to him and he was rude back. If you can't take it, don't give it out and especially don't give it out, get it back, and then go crying to mummy and the papers.

Matt.

Agree with Matt. Going to defend all professional footballers here, gets my goat when players get given dogs abuse during games, or social media, even to their faces and so many people jump up and cry wolf when they bite back.

Footballers are only human, In the end like everyone else there's only so much they'll take, if your going to live by the sword expect to die by it, and don't cry about it either.

Yep, as easy as it would be to use this to annoy the Greeks with a bit of banter over this I think the player had every right to treat the gobshite in the same manner as he was treated.
Coles might well be a plonjer and he does have history for it but players shouldn't have to put up with that kind of thing on social media.

There's a Pennsylvania in England. I learned something today.

njgull wrote:There's a Pennsylvania in England. I learned something today.

Exeter possibly has some links with the Quaker, William Penn- after whom the state was named following Charles II's granting of a Land Charter to him?

In this instance it does seem like Coles went way over the top responding to what was just some 'banter'. And fair play to the 14 year old lad, doesn't sound half as retarded as one would expect from a Greek.

njgull wrote:There's a Pennsylvania in England. I learned something today.

There is also a Pennsylvana on the A46 road to Bath just bfore the roundabout with the A420 or 3420 as I understand it has now been downgraded

Effectively been sacked. Appalling over reaction which smacks of a convenient excuse to get a big earner off the wage bill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28217780

Matt.

Fine and loss of captaincy would have been adequate surely?

ferrarilover wrote:Effectively been sacked. Appalling over reaction which smacks of a convenient excuse to get a big earner off the wage bill.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28217780

Matt.

I think it's a perfectly justifiable reaction. If I swore at a client in work, either face to face or via social media, I could have no complaints if a disciplinary procedure was brought against me and I was let go. The fact the lad said something first does not allow Coles to say what he said.

Yeah, it does. You reap what you sow in life. Behave like a prick and people will treat you like a prick. If this lad wants to behave like this in life, he'll get nowhere. This is an important lesson for him, one which his parents should have taught him but clearly haven't.

Matt.

Coles was slagging off Cahill. A fan does the same to him in response and he doesn't like it. Coles shouldn't dish out what he cannot take himself. All the kid said was 'A bit like you then!' and gets the c word tweeted back to him. Coles deserves everything he is getting.

If you go home to your wife and complain about your boss, you'd expect a different reaction than if you'd walked into his office and called him a prick.

I tweeted something critical of Rio Ferdinand last night, but I didn't direct it at him (I'm not sure how much you know about Twitter), and deliberately so, because I'm sharing a joke with my followers, not trying to make a stranger feel worse about being alive.

If I told a barmaid or a blacksmith that they were shit at their job, I'd be delighted if all I got was an expletive laden putdown and not either a drink over my head or a branding iron in my face (I've known both barmaid and blacksmith and, as a nickle's worth of free advice, it ain't always the latter who is handy with a branding iron :devil:)

Matt.