Turner Twitter warning: 'I can't understand what possesses people to put on controversial things'

Last updated : 21 January 2012 By westfield shrimper

Turner: Appalled

Turner: 'Players tweet to each other forgetting they're tweeting to the public'
 
Neil Warnock, even out of a job, can never be kept out of the limelight for long, and has declared tweeting as "poisonous" and Shews boss Graham Turner, who the Shrimpers face Saturday afternoon at Greenhous Meadow, agrees, believing it can spread gossip and rumour far too quickly.
Turner told BBC Radio Shropshire"The FA's warned us that players whose tweets bring the game into disrepute will face action - and rightly so. I can't understand what possesses people to put on controversial things."
Turner accepted that many big name players have a huge number of followers, though a couple of his own squad have commented that the Football Association is policing their private lives!
However, he also brought up former Shrews player Lee Steele who was sacked by Oxford City for abusive tweets and that should serve as a warning to all players, not just his own.

Turner continued: "Players tweet to each other forgetting they're tweeting to the public. But it's like making a statement at a press conference. There's no privacy in it, so how do they think they'll ever get away with some of the comments they make?"

The warning from the FA has been pinned up in the Shrewsbury dressing room, with Turner adding: "I expect them all to take notice of it."

Wonder if Blues boss Paul Sturrock has said anything to his players, though they all seem to use it correctly.

 

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