BARNABY ROSTANT LOOKS AT THE MIXED FORTUNES OF FOOTBALLERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS SUCH AS TWITTER...

IT WOULD seem the days when Wayne Rooney would tweet Rio Ferdinand to see if he wants picking up for training tomorrow or Ashley Cole letting rapper Drake know he’s on the social media site are no more, as the modern-day player has opted to pay thousands of pounds, according to some reports, to outsource their social media accounts.
Gary Neville has spoken strongly against today’s players not running their own social media accounts. Neville himself has 4.8m Twitter followers and is e...