Have now added the image as a major English newspaper is going to show it tomorrow. But you must admit, that while making a photo of someone being fat and then sending it to them is stupid, the photo shop skills are there to see.
Recently Tim Bresnan started tweeting.
Realising that I know very little about the guy other than the fact he doesn’t tuck his shirt in when he comes in to bowl I decided to follow.
Mostly his tweets are part of a three way conversation with Swanny and Jimmy.
When I say conversation I mean a three way sniping session at each other.
I don’t follow Jimmy, but Swanny can’t go a tweet without bagging Bresnan’s curvy nature, poor Samit Patel.
Bresnan calls Swann and Jimmy the dipshit brothers, and referred to buying a joke book or personality for Jimmy.
It is just three mates taking the piss.
Then people started putting photoshop photos of Tim up.
His favourite was one by Mel who comments here. Tim loved it.
Another one drew this comment:
“@DarranGoulder don’t mind my mates dishing it out but who the fuck are you.Crawl out off your mums basement U KNOB”
The photo in question was one of Tim Bresnan as a slightly larger than life character. It was excellent photoshop work, but Tim probably wasn’t expecting someone to send him a photo of him as a digitally altered fatty.
What I liked about the whole episode was the rage Bresnan showed.
There was no Phil Hughes’ manager and IT worker tweeting, this was Tim being pissed off.
The problem with opening yourself up to this public conversation is that if your mates call you fat, your twitter followers are going to do the same and there is a chance that people will question your overall fitness.
Sure it was an over the line photo, but when you see Swanny tweet after tweet say that Bresnan is fat, you get the feeling that he can handle it.
I’d suggest by the fact the tweet finished with a capitalisation of U KNOB, he can’t. Which is fair enough, but he has opened this up, not Darran Goulder who has too much time on his hands and a better than average grasp of photo shop.
Will be interesting to see if the three are allowed to continue their banter* by the ECB especially if they react badly to criticism of their performance.
Having dealt with the ECB I’d say they frown on the phrase U KNOB, capitalised or not.
*By banter I mean Swanny calling Bresnan a fat cunt, saying he eats a 100 sausages or a whole cake, and that he gets violent when the donuts are all gone.
Twitterring Pom Cricketers are a blast. Don’t discourage them!
I’m hoping they don’t get Iain O’Briened too – last night’s bickering was brilliant!
To be fair to Tim, he’s not greedy. It’s just if you’re captained by Anthony McGrath, Darren Gough and Darren Lehmann you soon learn to use your elbows at the dessert trolley or go hungry.
And frankly if I roomed with someone who thought music peaked with Shed Seven I’d want to naw my own leg off and beat myself unconscious with it.
Si’thee later,
Len