Well, he was 15 and 16 when he wrote them. There's a hell of a lot of growing up still to be done at that age. Most 15 year olds think they know everything but in actual fact can barely do joined up thinking.
While it's obviously a totally inappropriate thing to tweet (even at 16), I've far more contempt for the sadacts that waded back through his Twitter feed to find something that they'd hope would hamper the young guys career. I'm guessing it was salty Arsenal fans still bitter over his team schooling them at the weekend.
He might have tweeted those tweets but in no way is he responsible. In fact, I heard he was groomed into doing it by the same people who groomed Shamima Begum.
It reminds me of the time when mason holgate got into the 1st team for Everton and someone found a tweet to one of his mates when he was 15 calling him a ****** (or something along those lines) and he got in bother for been homophobic.
It amazes me that these lads aren't advised when they sign professional deals to delete all social media accounts and start fresh.
Even if they weren’t advised at an early age there have been enough instances in recent times to warrant a complete delete of all content. TweetDelete wipes everything on Twitter, I’m surprised more people don’t use it.
Well, he was 15 and 16 when he wrote them. There's a hell of a lot of growing up still to be done at that age. Most 15 year olds think they know everything but in actual fact can barely do joined up thinking.[/QUOTE] Most 16 year olds who came to work for us couldn't do joined up writing.
When I got offered my graduate job, I deleted nearly my entire social media presence. Kept only a few nice family photos on Instagram, and made a new work-appropriate Twitter account with about six tweets on it. I’ve never said anything terribly controversial online to my knowledge, but you never know how one of the 12,000 tweets or retweets could be misconstrued, or if you’ve accidentally ‘liked’ something inappropriate. In this modern world, scorched earth is the way to go, with one strict test for anything subsequently uploaded on to the web: Would I show/read/tell this to my grandma?
