Twitter, Aussies, Tottenham and rants

So, it seems like the old fashioned trend of leaving everything to the safety of an official press release is finally beginning to change.

In two instances this week, sportsmen have announce news on their Twitter pages that some of those involved would like to have kept internal:

1. Australian cricketer Phil Hughes found himself in trouble yesterday when he announced on his Twitter page that he had been axed from the Ashes team before it had been officially announced. We later found out it was Hughes' agent Neil D'Costa who broke the news via Twitter on behalf of his client,

"These things happen," D'Costa said. "I guess things got confused with the time difference."











2. Darren Bent has caused a potential rift in the Tottenham camp after postings about his current chairman Daniel Levy in relation to the strikers' desire to move away from White Hart Lane.

Writing on his Twitter page @db10thetruth, Bent supposedly said: "Do I wanna go Hull City. No. Do I wanna go Stoke. No...Do I wanna go Sunderland. Yes. So stop ******* around Levy."

Tottenham have apparently launched an investigation into this and Bent could face some form of action.
















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Both incidents though are showing us the power Twitter can have in dodging barriers to get news out to the general public. I'm sure this will only be the beginning of this type of communication between annoyed, overpaid sportstar and the outside world
- In protest of their superiors (in Bent's case).

In Hughes case, learn the time zones!!