Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has revealed his distaste for the socially and morally repugnant social networking site Twitter.
In an interview with LFC magazine recently, Rodgers made it clear that he believes the site - a cesspool of racists, narcissists and cowardly cyber-stalkers - is a pointless waste of time. He said:
"It [Twitter] is very very very bad.
"I'm a great believer that the quality of your life is based on the quality of your communication, and I don't think anyone needs to know I'm in the bathroom having a shave.
"Away from football I'm a private person, and for some people it [Twitter] is probably great, but I can't think of anything worse".
I totally agree with Rodgers; I hate Twitter with a passion. It's a cowardly site with no real accountability, and it often point-blank refuses to deal with the the many cases of bullying, racism and cyber-stalking that take place every day.
Several Liverpool players have landed themselves in hot water over the years after using the service. Ryan Babel once posted a digitally altered picture of referee Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt and said his performance at Old Trafford was "a joke" (bravo, Ryan!), which landed him in hot water with the FA.
In September 2011, Former Reds Striker Nathan Eccleston claimed in a Twitter post that the 911 attacks were not perpetrated by terrorists, which prompted the club to open an investigation.
Jaimie Kanwar
In an interview with LFC magazine recently, Rodgers made it clear that he believes the site - a cesspool of racists, narcissists and cowardly cyber-stalkers - is a pointless waste of time. He said:
"It [Twitter] is very very very bad.
"I'm a great believer that the quality of your life is based on the quality of your communication, and I don't think anyone needs to know I'm in the bathroom having a shave.
"Away from football I'm a private person, and for some people it [Twitter] is probably great, but I can't think of anything worse".
I totally agree with Rodgers; I hate Twitter with a passion. It's a cowardly site with no real accountability, and it often point-blank refuses to deal with the the many cases of bullying, racism and cyber-stalking that take place every day.
Several Liverpool players have landed themselves in hot water over the years after using the service. Ryan Babel once posted a digitally altered picture of referee Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt and said his performance at Old Trafford was "a joke" (bravo, Ryan!), which landed him in hot water with the FA.
In September 2011, Former Reds Striker Nathan Eccleston claimed in a Twitter post that the 911 attacks were not perpetrated by terrorists, which prompted the club to open an investigation.
Jaimie Kanwar
I agree with BR on this. 100%. Footballers should be banned from using twitter in re to football.
ReplyDeletei thought eccleston was right about 9 11 ...and that had nothing to do with football. so for the club to tell him to keep quie was wrong !
ReplyDeletetwitter is for people with sad lives!!!
ReplyDeleteTwitter and Farcebook - for people so sad they have to boast about their empty lives at every opportunity. Pointless
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I don't necessarily agree with Eccleston but I totally support his right to have an opinion.
ReplyDeleteThe press don't report 9/11 properly and the official story is riddled with holes and contradictions so it's good that Eccleston had the courage to tweet out. There are conspiracies and there are cover-ups; we saw that yet again recently.
ReplyDeleteNearly as bad as websites that are sposored by "mature dating" and the likes I suppose. Kettle, black, pot
ReplyDeleteWhat? Just footballers? And what next then? Ban them from having any sort of personal opinions and ban them from talking to anyone outside the club or their families? Don't be a fool. It's for the public at large to use. Nobody should be banned from using it. Even if it is a pile of crap.
ReplyDeleteDisappointed to hear the closed mindedness re twitter. Democratising everything from the middle east to local events, twitter gives voice to the man in the street and is not to blame as a platform if individuals abuse that. For a closer to home example, ask HJC and select parents of the 96 if twitter has no value. 150k names on a petition dont come from keeping things to yourself and show that while it may be used to tweet about Brendan Rogers shaving, it has other vitally important uses.
ReplyDeleteAnybody in any job can be considered to be bringing their employers into disrepute by dint of their actions in their private life. Time was Liverpool had no truck with players behaving badly, as Don Hutchinson, El Hadji Diouf and Charles Itandje, can testify, so why the club has recently entertained the likes of Craig Bellamy and currently Luis Suarez baffles me. No matter how 'valuable' Suarez appears to the club, he has dragged its name through the mud. I'd rather watch Liverpool be relegated courtesy of a Vidic hat-trick than pay a £ to see Suarez besmirch the Anfield turf in a Premiership-winning Liverpool side.
ReplyDeleteI dont use Twitter, so maybe I should forward the story of my Alien Abduction to Nathan Eccleston to tweet for me.
ReplyDeletethats rich!, coming from a website that deletes any negative coments about itselves! kenwar, your a spineless idoit!
ReplyDeleteYou bad mouth tens of thousands of fellow Liverpool fans, respects Liverpool journalists and writers, along with campaigners for Hillsborough with your disgraceful and small minded comments. Yet you're happy to include the Facebook and Twitter 'share' icons on your website!
ReplyDeleteYou're an idiot.
Twitter has done a lot of and can continue to be a good force in a number of areas, most obviously bringing artists and athletes closer to their fans. It offers actual information.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't twitter's fault that the entire internet appears to be a cunt hive.
Why on earth should anyone blame Eccleston ( as you do or you wouldn't think it worth mentioning ) for saying the September 11th attacks were not the work of terrorists? Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have the same opinion - as I do myself. Are people to have no liberty to express their opinions, Jamie? What about those LFC fans who disagreed with the official Sheffield disaster explanations - should they have been silenced? I know there isn't much freedom around these days, but let's not erode the bit that's left. As for suggesting referees favour United - thousands of us believe that too. With an English referee they could take the Champions' League every season. Fortunately they can't have one.
ReplyDeleteYes. Clubs should ban players from commenting on twitter about club or any matter relating to
ReplyDeletefootball for obvious reasons.