Thursday 9 September 2010

Utter Twits

Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has made a public apology for her homophobic twitter post after she wrote 'Suck on that faggots' after Australia beat South Africa in a Rugby League match. The Australian swimmer has angered gay rights groups and has lost a sponsporship deal with Jaguar.The story comes a few days after Kevin Pietersen was fined for writing 'Done for rest of summer! Man of the World Cup T20 side too...It's a fuck up!!' on his twitter page. His fellow England batsman Dimitri Mascarenhas was also fined for calling national selector Geoff Miller 'a prick' on his account.

Many sports stars now have been warned about what they write on their twitter sites which can be viewed by anyone. Darren Bent has now closed his twitter account to 'focus on getting Sunderland out of a relegation battle' but I reckon the club has had a quiet word with him after he caused controversy last year by writing 'Stop fucking around Levy' about the Spurs Chairman.

Another Australian, footballer Lisa de Vanna has been forced to remove sexually suggestive photos from her facebook profile after a 13 year old fan found them after looking up her sporting hero. Football Federation Australia has asked De Vanna to take the pictures down which can be viewed by anyone

However the best telling-off for internet activity was by Tranmere Chairman Peter Johnson who last year appointed Dornoch Capital to sell his 60% share in the club. Soon after, he found that the company had placed Tranmere Rovers on Ebay with a starting price of $10,000,000 (£6.1million). And it comes with Free Shipping!

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