Barry Bannan Twittergate

[hawkeye]

Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can  not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic

[Lizz]

Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.

I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.

The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.

Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can  not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic

Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.

[pauliewalnuts]

Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can  not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic

Bent has played for us for a year.

I've supported us for over 30 years, and doubtless love the club more than Darren Bent does, but quite frequently (especially this season), I'd prefer to go shopping than watch us play.

In fact, I'd prefer to go shopping with the Mrs than watch us play.

It was a bit daft because of the way it could be construed, but in a season of plenty of things to moan about, that strikes me as pretty trivial, really.

As does the Bannan tweet. He's right. it was really, really boring.

[Sexual Ealing]

See also facebook.

Quite right. I hear that Murdoch and his Myspace media arse-lickers are pulling the strings behind the scenes at Facebook. All the while Donna & Jason public are consumed by a tsunami of jism after the media wankfest twitter love-in.

Just my opinion.

[hawkeye]

Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.

I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.

The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.

Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can  not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic

Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.

Lizz, i will tell you a story, I was playing amatuer football I was past my prime at this time and 2 young kids turned up, we recognised that they were too good to be playing 6th team football and eventually moved them to our first team, the wosre player out of the 2 ended up playing for Fulham at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 and is still being paid to play now at Wycombe I think, his name is Kevin Betsy, the other bloke  (who was exceptional) dropped out because his mrs wanted him to spend more time with her, he ended up  shoppping on saturday afternoons, he was a lot more talented than Betsy we all knew that. Betsy got pretty close to the big time his mate who I will not name went shopping and probably regrets that decision. It is part of changing room banter, hey lads lets enjoy it you could be shopping with your Mrs

[Somniloquism]

Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.

I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.

I doubt your boss would like to see a picture of you out shopping whilst you are off work sick though.

[Oscar Arce]

a lot of good things happened to Bannan in a very short span of time. He broke into our team, had some nice games and then broke into the national team. A lot of people were saying a lot of good things about him. Now, depending on who he is as a person, it

1) would have not had much affect,
2) motivated him to do more,

or 3) the one you don't want - let it get to his head.

It appears to me, that at least right now, our Barry falls into the last category and we've all seen this movie before. The best players in the world generally are motivated to do even more. Then there are those who are dazzled by the lights and start thinking they've arrived. That this isn't the start. They have a bit of fame, lots of money and people telling them how great they are and not stepping in when they act a fool.

Bannan has a lot of potential, but that's all. It's all untapped and unless he gets a grip now, be may never get a grip. In 10 years time he'll wonder why he's playing in League 1 and not ending a solid career in the top flight.

I totally agree !!!!

[Nastylee]

Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.

I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.

The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.

Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can  not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic

Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.

Lizz, i will tell you a story, I was playing amatuer football I was past my prime at this time and 2 young kids turned up, we recognised that they were too good to be playing 6th team football and eventually moved them to our first team, the wosre player out of the 2 ended up playing for Fulham at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 and is still being paid to play now at Wycombe I think, his name is Kevin Betsy, the other bloke  (who was exceptional) dropped out because his mrs wanted him to spend more time with her, he ended up  shoppping on saturday afternoons, he was a lot more talented than Betsy we all knew that. Betsy got pretty close to the big time his mate who I will not name went shopping and probably regrets that decision. It is part of changing room banter, hey lads lets enjoy it you could be shopping with your Mrs

I'm sorry, although it's a good story can't see how it can be applied to Bent's situation since he's already grabbed his opportunity.

[Holy Trinity]

Not sure if any of you saw it or have heard about Bannan's tweet after the game but it went something like this:-

"Chilling at home ... Wat a cold boring day that was !!!"

Not very clever by the wee scotsman and he should learn to control his emotions on a social media website.  Yes, i'm sure we can all share his feelings regarding saturday's game but as a professional, he needs to keep those thoughts to himself.  He has the priviledge of being a professoinal footballer who earns £10k a week - money that we can only dream of earning!  The club have stuck by him through his recent ordeal and to tweet something silly like this will not help his cause.
Come on Barry, sort it out!  Keep wokring hard on the training pitch and you will get your chance.

Mods, if there is already a topic on this, please lock this down.  I didn't see one hence why I created a new one.

i deleted him after he tweeted saying frankie "coke head" corccoza was...  "legend #fact" really great get done for drink driving then have a public love in for a drug addicted dole dosser who openly admits sitting in his mum and dads garage waiting for his dole to go in, theres also the tweets about willy size that he claims his friend sent. i can see it all going very wrong for the lad if he stay on this path.

[pauliewalnuts]

Following a few of our younger players, with all the money they have, why do they choose to eat at such grim venues?

Even at their age, if i was on that kind of money, I wouldn't be darkening the door of Frankie and Benny's or Nando's for all the money in the world.

[pav]

I agree paulie, nandos....why , seemed a chore when I went .

[pauliewalnuts]

I agree paulie, nandos....why , seemed a chore when I went .

Mind you, Nando's is Michelin starred compared to the horror of Frankie and Benny's.

[pav]

Yeah lol , give me a country boozer or curry house anytime.  Can't see atrraction in nandos

[glasses]

Nando's is fucking ace! I won't have anyone having a go at that place.

Although you are right. If I earned the money they did I'd probably choose a slightly better establishment.

On the whole twitter thing. Players are getting stick for all sorts. Sczezny of Arsenal got stick for a joke tweet to Aaron Ramsay, saying something about a picture of him. It said something like 'Not being funny mate, but you look a bit like a rapist there!'

Clearly a joke, but he had to apologise for it.

I think it is all a bit pathetic to be honest

 

[kipeye]

Considering the stick Bent got for going shopping then Bannan therefore deserves some for being a moaning twat. Personally, I don't rate him and Blackpool was about his level.

I never understood the stick that Bent got for that. When I'm off sick from work I don't go in to watch the other guys work.

The last thing I want to do is have social contact with my colleagues outside of work.

Bent should not have been shopping, he should have been with his team mates, i can  not believe that any bloke would rather go shopping than watch a football match, particularly a game involving the team he plays for. So he scores beats the badge, what were you doing last saturday mate? oh shopping with my Mrs- pathetic

Footballers have to be like politicians at times, say and do what people want to hear/believe. It wasn't a brilliant move on Bent's part, but it was probably honest.

Lizz, i will tell you a story, I was playing amatuer football I was past my prime at this time and 2 young kids turned up, we recognised that they were too good to be playing 6th team football and eventually moved them to our first team, the wosre player out of the 2 ended up playing for Fulham at Old Trafford in front of 70,000 and is still being paid to play now at Wycombe I think, his name is Kevin Betsy, the other bloke  (who was exceptional) dropped out because his mrs wanted him to spend more time with her, he ended up  shoppping on saturday afternoons, he was a lot more talented than Betsy we all knew that. Betsy got pretty close to the big time his mate who I will not name went shopping and probably regrets that decision. It is part of changing room banter, hey lads lets enjoy it you could be shopping with your Mrs

Kevin Betsy is a legend! He's about 96 and still scoring goals.