Beef: Stan Collymore looking forward to meeting Rio Ferdinand at QPR after Twitter row By Paul Updated: March 27, 2015 please log in to view this image ← Previous Story Next Story → please log in to view this image Stan Collymore is one of Twitter’s more vocal and outspoken users, never shy to engage in debate on whatever subject is on the table. After last night’s political debate ahead of the UK general election, QPR midfielder Karl Henry tweeted his thoughts, coming down on the side of the Conservative Party. Henry dismissed Labour’s policies as unfair on those who work hard for a living, and was swayed by the right’s case after the debate. Despite the fact he’s new to Twitter and has just 20,000 followers, Stan Collymore somehow caught wind of his Tweets, and chimed in with his disagreement. It soon descended into a slanging match, with Henry calling Collymore a ‘wife-beating scumbag’, alluding to Collymore’s troubled past. This provoked Rio Ferdinand to get involved, who sounded quite excited and seemed to vouch for his teammate’s name-calling, exclaming, ‘Karl Henry went in hard!’ Collymore wasn’t impressed with Rio’s intervention nor his uninvited joining of the party, and said he’s looking forward to seeing the pair the next time he’s down at QPR. Oh, to be a fly on the wall that day Karl Henry ✔ @karlhenry08 Follow @StanCollymore Say what you will to please the masses! Why don't you donate your salary to those in need? Im sure you don't need it. 12:37 PM - 27 Mar 2015 Karl Henry ✔ @karlhenry08 Follow @StanCollymore Do you seriously want credit for these things?? Stop embarrassing yourself. Karl Henry ✔ @karlhenry08 Follow @StanCollymore The fact that you have deleted some tweets from the conversation has spoken volumes!! Have your views changed already? Karl Henry ✔ @karlhenry08 Follow @StanCollymore Why delete tweets then? The ones that made you sound like an idiot! "I pay my council tax" lol. 12:08 AM - 28 Mar 2015 .Karl Henry ✔ @karlhenry08 Follow Love twitter. Where else could you debate politics with a woman-beating scumbag. #peopleinglasshouses. Rio Ferdinand ✔ @rioferdy5 @karlhenry08 went in hard! Ooooofff! What's all this??? please log in to view this image Stan Collymore ✔ @StanCollymore Follow See both of you at #QPR next time i’m there @rioferdy5 @karlhenry08 , you can run your mouths off to my face. God bless. 9:45 AM - 28 Mar 2015 Stan Collymore ✔ @StanCollymore See both of you at #QPR next time i’m there @rioferdy5 @karlhenry08 , you can run your mouths off to my face. God bless. please log in to view this image Stan Collymore ✔ @StanCollymore Follow You’ve been giving it for time @rioferdy5 so not surprised to see you pipe up. Meet me at #QPR next week when i’m down twitter gangsta.
Before Twitter, I'd suspected that most professional footballers were people that I wouldn't want to get to know. Thanks to said social micro-blogging platform, I now see I was not far wide of the mark.
That article is poorly written and doesn't put the altercation into context. Collymore ended up looking like the mug as he started on Henry and subsequently deleted a series of tweets. He was also the one castigated by most of the respondents. Not that this lessens the idiocy of the three involved though.
Where was Joey Barton whilst all this was going on? I would have expected him to have intervened with some Nietzsche inspired prose of his own.
I suspect that Henry will end up with a suspension for that, these footballers really are complete cretins...
This is what Collymore said later: I have to agree about Ferdinand. He pops up everywhere on TV, Radio, twitter and in the newspapers. Shame he has done feck all for the club that pays him thousands of pounds a week.
Not sure either of them would fare well against the brute Collymore in a dust up.. They may have to take a tooled up SWP as back up.. Good job they didn't mention his dogging!
Stan Collymore is a pr2t and i hope Rio or Karl puts him on his backside if he tries anything or set Joey onto him. I used to Listen to Talksh@te and everytime he opened his gob he talked rubbish. The bloke only ever scored one goal that made him. Other than that he was sh@t.
Collymore makes Joey Barton look shy and lacking in self esteem. On Talksport's phone-in he allows the callers about 15 seconds to answer his question which he takes 3 minutes to ask and then he gives another 5 minutes of his opinion. In other words, he never shuts the fu*k up. He's a real prat
Beef: Stan Collymore looking forward to meeting Rio Ferdinand at QPR after Twitter row... It's a sad day when people fall out over a piece of meat on social media, what is the world coming too?...
please log in to view this image ....and where's this other England international gangster when you need him? please log in to view this image
Stan Collymore's a w@nker He wears a w@nker's hat He was a Forest b@stard and then a Leicester tw@t He went out with Ulrika He beat her like an egg And when he came to Derby He broke is f@cking leg!
They are not the brightest are they? Keep tweeting Rio, have you not already secured yourself a three match ban for your publicised thoughts of wisdom. I would make it a club policy to bar all players from using social media. I dare say if one were to try that some liberal, lily-livered, PC lawyer would scream about the abuse of human rights of expression etc.