Alan Shearer is one of those former footballers who does not have a PR team suggesting what he can or cannot tweet, and as a result he is not afraid to call a spade a spade, or, in this case, a prick a prick.
While watching a frustratingly boring Champions League semi-final first leg between Man City and Real Madrid, Shearer decided to tell his followers that he was watching a snoozefest and was not impressed:
Can someone tell me when #CityvReal kicks-off?! #ChampionsLeague ??
— Alan Shearer (@alanshearer) April 26, 2016
To which he received an unnecessarily nasty tweet, although typical of the type of stuff players and personalities have to put up with in their timeline:
Fuck off! How many did you play in? Prick https://t.co/O3UXqD258E
— David Eaves (@davideaves1971) April 26, 2016
Shearer then put the troll in his place with stats, and an emphatic hashtag:
Football matches at the highest level or boring matches? Let me think....701 and 8 #prick https://t.co/o8UQMZUPgE
— Alan Shearer (@alanshearer) April 26, 2016
That's how you deal with idiots online. That said, our Alan Shearer twitter highlight of the last year is still this absolute beauty:
The old man still got the technique! pic.twitter.com/6v8XUj4xHB
— Will Shearer (@willshearer9) July 7, 2015
Well worth a follow.
