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Post by harr on Oct 14, 2014 18:02:26 GMT
Rio Ferdinand charged by FA over Twitter 'reference to gender' following 'sket' tweet Queens Park Rangers defender, who is a member of the FA commission, has seven days to respond to charge over tweet Rio Ferdinand has been charged by the FA over a comment made on Twitter
In the dock: Rio Ferdinand has been charged by the FA over a comment made on Twitter By Telegraph Sport5
Former England captain Rio Ferdinand has been charged by the Football Association for misconduct following a comment he made on Twitter.
The 35-year-old QPR defender, who is part of the FA commission designed to look into ways of improving the national team, has until Oct 21 to respond to the charge. Ferdinand reportedly posted a tweet including the word sket, a slang word meaning a promiscuous girl or woman. "It is alleged the comment posted on his twitter account was abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper," a FA statement read. "It is further alleged that this breach is aggravated pursuant to FA rule E3(2) as it included a reference to gender.
"The player has until Tuesday, October 21 2014 to respond to the charge." Ferdinand was previously found guilty of improper conduct and fined ÂŁ45,000 by the Football Association for comments on Twitter when he called Ashley Cole a "choc ice". Ferdinand was on Tuesday evening at a shopping centre in east London for a BT Sport event. BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey wrote on Twitter: "If you're at @westfieldstrat right now, I'm going to do a @btsport Q&A with @rioferdy5. Come over to the BT Sport fan creche and meet him..."
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Post by harr on Oct 14, 2014 18:13:22 GMT
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Post by corndog on Oct 14, 2014 18:28:21 GMT
Can't really disagree with the guy tweeting Rio, thought he was a QPR supporter until I saw his name. Rio seems to be losing it, he needs to be dropped against Liverpool. Hopefully TF plays his hand in this one, can't see Harry doing it himself. Maybe hand out a club punishment for misconduct. Pretty sure there was a meeting in the relegation season about football related tweets with the players.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 19:02:13 GMT
Perhaps if he spent more time concentrating on his football than tweeting and promoting his poxy book we'd be in a better place than we are now
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 14, 2014 19:21:20 GMT
If RIo retired, wouldnt have to answer the charge!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 19:45:07 GMT
If RIo retired, wouldnt have to answer the charge! Fingers crossed , he can F*****g tweet to his followers to his hearts content
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Post by londonranger on Oct 14, 2014 20:34:51 GMT
The Ferdinand "Curse". With Sir. Les back, can it be lifted?
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Post by londonranger on Oct 14, 2014 20:34:55 GMT
Sticky key error. Sorry.
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Post by londonranger on Oct 14, 2014 20:35:00 GMT
Error.
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Post by Lonegunmen on Oct 15, 2014 5:36:27 GMT
Rio, You have 3 choices: 1] Shut the F*** up, 2] Start playing like a Central defender and stop gifting the opposition goals. You have personally set up 4 thus far or 3] Retire.
Just like Park last season, he's not lived up to the hype or expectation. All I see now on News Now is Rio promoting his fleet street quality book or being charged for a Tweet. How much more money do the club have to gift these waste of monies.
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 15, 2014 5:47:17 GMT
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Rio Ferdinand brought to book as inane trailblazer of Twitter Defender should have followed Sir Alex Fergusonâs advice and found something better to do with his time than Twitter Rio Ferdinand brought to book as inane trailblazer of Twitter
By Oliver Brown10:33PM BST 14 Oct 2014 Comments3 Comments Rio Ferdinandâs just-published autobiography follows a classic trick, endemic in footballersâ memoirs, of using an absurdly large font size to make the book appear far more substantial than it really is. It is a tome ready-made for the attentionâdeficit social-media generation, as reflected in an entire chapter devoted to Ferdinandâs Twitter obsession - entitled â5.7âmillion and countingâ - and the fact that even its title #2Sides comes prefaced with a hashtag. Ferdinand, you see, considers himself something of a trailblazer for those players who treat their smartphones almost as an extra physical appendage. âI like to think I was something of a pioneer in the field!â he writes (or rather, ghost David Winner writes for him). Trouble is, he admits in virtually the same breath that Twitter can also be a âdouble-edged sword - if you retaliate or say something, you get finedâ. Talk about a danger foretold. As of Tuesday night Ferdinand had sent more than 14,300 of his beloved tweets, forming a repository of wisdom roughly equivalent in volume to a Dickens novel, with a few extra lashings of inanity. None of them, however, was quite as numbâskulled as his response on transfer-deadline day to one who dared to doubt his qualities as a Queens Park Rangers centre-back, describing the detractorâs mother as a âsketâ. Many of his followers would not have recognised the word as Jamaican patois for a promiscuous woman. But the Football Associationâs decision to charge him with misconduct after dredging up a cursory if crass remark from six weeks ago is one to reaffirm the wisdom of âpublish and be damnedâ. At one level, Ferdinand is guilty of nothing more than chronic naivety. He is desperate, it seems, to use Twitter as a means of reconnecting with his rough-and-ready south-east London roots. And in trying to shatter preconceptions born of the bling, the ÂŁ30 million Manchester United transfer fee, the white suit, he throws in some of the old vernacular of his Peckham âhood. The conflict in his selfâpresentation was all too evident at his recent book launch, where Ferdinand gave any number of homespun stories of kicking a ball about with brother Anton on their council estate, despite holding court in Londonâs shamelessly flashy May Fair Hotel. It is not as if he was not warned about the perils of reaching back into the lexicon of the street. In 2012 he was fined ÂŁ45,000 for endorsing a tweet calling a Ashley Cole a âchoc iceâ - black on the outside, white on the inside - after his England team-mate gave evidence at Antonâs trial against John Terry. With another fine eminently possible over âsket-gateâ, Ferdinand faces a straightforward choice: either kick his Twitter addiction, or make his feed as anodyne and platitudinous as Roger Federerâs. Perhaps he can study, too, the example of Leighton Baines, his successor in the England defence, who prefers reading Murakami to these witless witterings. His former manager Sir Alex Ferguson might belong to a different generation but was never so wise as when he argued that there were a million better uses of his playersâ time. www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/11163254/Rio-Ferdinand-brought-to-book-as-inane-trailblazer-of-Twitter.html
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 17:48:44 GMT
Is it too many tweets makes a t**t ? If the cap fits I spose !
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Oct 18, 2014 17:42:14 GMT
Seen other players tweet worse words and get away with it so it's fairly ridiculous by the FA
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Post by FloridaR on Oct 18, 2014 19:26:28 GMT
Load of old bollocks, sick of reading about this has-been.
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Post by FloridaR on Oct 18, 2014 19:30:10 GMT
Rio if you reading please concentrate on this QPR centre-backs in the Premier League 2014-15 Who played together Minutes Conceded Ferdinand-Dunne-Caulker...123............4 Ferdinand-Onuoha-Caulker..45.............1 Ferdinand-Caulker.........462............11 www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29638128
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Post by Macmoish on Oct 18, 2014 19:31:33 GMT
He should have stayed at Manchester United...Authorities would have thought twice if Rio tweeted that when he was there.
As for the badness of the word. Well I dont usually read Rio (except very, very recently started looking occasionally)
Second I didnt know the word.
Third, I find Barton's tweets far more offensive
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Post by Lonegunmen on Oct 19, 2014 10:33:57 GMT
But at least Barton puts in a shift when playing.
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