Darron Gibson. Pecked to death in under 2 hours

Whilst the rest of us were tweeting merrily away and enjoying the last day of our prolonged Easter weekend, Manchester United midfielder Darron Gibson was being savagely pecked to death on social media site Twitter.


In just 2 short hours Gibson had signed up, stood alongside many of his fellow team mates and also shut down his account as a result of barrages of abuse being launched his way. Rio Ferdinand, his team mate and the man behind informing many a tweetee of Gibson's arrival to Twitter, asked his fans to 'show him some love tweeps.' And the tweeps tweeted, but not of love.

Some such fine examples are as follows:

@dgibbo28 my mate thought you were about 33 years old in the heart of midfield! Movement like pirlo!!

@dgibbo28 Nothing would make me happier than if we sold you in the summer, you're probably a nice bloke, but an awful footballer.

@dgibbo28 your performance on saturday was one of the worst I've ever seen of any utd player. scared of the ball much?'

@dgibbo28 hasn't tweeted yet. Seems somewhat fitting after the countless anonymous performances we've seen from the 'footballer'

@dgibbo28 team do all hard work keeping possession then u hit row Z every fuckin time!!

@dgibbo28 the biggest compliment i can give you is that you are better than Carrick

Then again, with Rio Ferdinand single handedly managing your PR, what was to be expected? Would you trust a man - who at the time of writing - has his Twitter status as 'Hacienda classics are getting blown out the system!! Voodoo ray....don't scandalize mine....salsa house!! Rave in the room Oi oi !!' 

Ferdinand has been keen to quash rumours that Gibson departed due to abuse and the reality was merely that he had found Twitter boring - is it just me or is this increasingly sounding like an atrocious marketing campaign? Ferdinand tweeted: "He came on to see what the lads were up to....he came off because he couldn't be bothered with it not any other reason.” 


97 minutes and he's already bored? It's a bloody good job a game of football doesn't last any longer then isn't it...