Downing on Twitter Q&A

[eamonn]

He's finally started to show a bit of form for them in the last few weeks so I guess it was decided to use the goodwill on that.

[ACVilla]

I'm amazed that they still do these twitter Q&As, Michael Owen got slated just as badly when he tried it last year

It amazes me that any footballer would want to go on twitter at all. The amount of abuse they get would be far too much for me to deal with.

[Risso]

Blimey, almost as good an idea as the Villa OS streaming AVFC tweets last season.

[dekko]

I'm amazed that they still do these twitter Q&As, Michael Owen got slated just as badly when he tried it last year

It amazes me that any footballer would want to go on twitter at all. The amount of abuse they get would be far too much for me to deal with.

I suppose its the same reason any 20-something lad would use twitter, sounding off about things, banter with your mates etc.  What makes a difference is how you handle the abuse - most players with twitter accounts seem to ignore it, then you get a twit like Chris Herd who seems to feel the need to argue with every one of his detractors, which is just going to invite more of the same.

[nigel]

we did very well with that deal. I'm shocked Randy didn't ask for Joe Cole in px

Probably a good thing, because we'd have had another Stephen Ireland on our hands

[pauliewalnuts]

Blimey, almost as good an idea as the Villa OS streaming AVFC tweets last season.

Somewhere I have a load of screen shots of that when people on here were tweeting derogatory stuff and it was getting onto the OS home page.

I can't remember the last time I cried with laughter like that day.

[Legion]

Same here. Please try and find them.

[peter w]

My favourite:

@arpan_manutd Do you know any footballer (except you) who is neither footed?

Mine also. Quality.

[Lee]

Brilliant some of those, made my day.

[supertom]

That's fantastic. I couldn't believe it when we snagged 20 million for Stewie. I still felt we'd paid way over the odds ourselves at 12.