Am I alone in getting a little tired already about reading about what such and such a player is saying on Facebook?
Is this really the future - a world where every disgruntled squad member sounds off to their select circle of 300 "friends" in apparent disregard of the fact that anything remotely newsworthy will be posted on Poppynet?
Do the nation's keyboard warriors really need yet another excuse to trawl the web endlessly?
(Answers: yes, yes and yes I fear)
Let's start with Facebook - the electronic diary for the sort of people who never kept proper diaries. Feeling happy? Feeling sad? Missed the bus? Been for a dump? Update your Facebook entry. Pointless but harmless - most of the time, but not if the comments have the potential to embarrass, offend or otherwise cause damage.
Yes footballers are normal people too (we'll discount Branston, whose Facebook entries were in any case so garbled, only a skilled interpreter equipped with an Enigma decoder could make sense of them). But if they are employees of KTFC and post negative comment on club affairs it can only be disruptive, coming as it does from inside the dressing room where team spirit is paramount.
Plus they usually come across as a bit thick and we like to think of our players as perfect in every way.
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