Former Lincoln City coach Curtis Woodhouse teaches Twitter troll a lesson
Footballer turned boxer Curtis Woodhouse left a Twitter tormentor running for cover today by driving to his doorstep for a face to face showdown.
The former Lincoln City coach was incensed by a barrage of abuse from a user known as The Master who branded the light welterweight a "disgrace" for losing his English title last week.
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Curtis Woodhouse, left, in action in the ring.
"What is funny is you put so much effort in, sacrificed all of that time and failed to defend your Mickey Mouse title," he wrote.
"Retire immediately, you are a complete disgrace.
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"Haha, you lost you silly mug, fight a 10-year-old next time if you want to actually win."
Enraged Woodhouse then came bouncing back off the ropes with a flurry of his own Twitter uppercuts by offering £1,000 to his 19,000 followers for the real name and address of the culprit.
Writing "enough is enough", the former Hull City midfielder eventually found the address and embarked on a drive saying he was going to have a chat with an "old friend".
Eventually The Master backed down and apologised to Woodhouse.
Woodhouse's actions won him more than 8,000 followers on Twitter and was also given support by football star Joey Barton.
Barton, currently playing for Marseille, Tweeted: "I'm not an advocate of violence but what @woodhousecurtis has just done is hilarious!"
10 Comments
by Summerisle
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 8:41PM
“Punch him in the ring!”
by FreedomSpeech
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 2:37PM
“So trolling on Twitter is bad but threatening behaviour is ok?”
by Phil1W
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 2:29PM
“It seems to me that "The Master" was attempting to bully Curtis Woodhouse with his comments and as with most bullies when Curtis retaliated he backed down and apologised, probably trembling like a jelly! I believe that Curtis would not have had any intention of actually entering into any violence with "The Master". He's probably got more self discipline than that.”
by Bicksy
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 12:44PM
“@LincolnTriker - give them chance, once they're back from putting their names down on the waiting list for a new £2 million residential treatment centre in Lincoln”
by rne02
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 11:18AM
“Seem to me he needs to go on an Anger Management course and an Anti Bullying course instead of offering rewards to track down people who call him names.”
by SwissToni__
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 10:36AM
“Just waiting on Gillian Merron to pay me a visit.”
by Linc0lnTriker
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 9:27AM
“I see all the usual "Thisislincolnshire" trolls are refraining from commenting on this article, i wonder why?????”
by Whiley45
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 8:52AM
“tomcat415 I wonder if those on Twitter have a life!”
by tomcat415
Monday, March 11 2013, 9:42PM
“so many trolls on twitter i wonder if the trolls have a life at all”
by Summerisle
Monday, March 11 2013, 9:29PM
“Endorsed by joey Barton... Oh dear”