Brian O’Driscoll couldn’t resist having a wee dig at Will Carling after the Twitter mob went to town on him.
Former England rugby captain Carling decided to weigh in on the Team Sky scandal that’s the talk of the cycling world at the moment.
The cycling team came under scrutiny when it emerged that Britain’s most decorated Olympian Sir Bradley Wiggins, who retired in December, used therapeutic use exemptions for three intramauscular injections of Triamcinolone acetonide while riding for them. The infromation was leaked by Russian hacking group ‘Fancy Bears’.
Carling took aim at the reporting of the scandal, claiming that the negative reporting of the story by journalists was a result of some sort of jealousy of the cycling team’s success.
Am against all drug cheating, but am I only one who senses that horrible jealousy of success bubbling under reporting on British/Sky cycling
— Will Carling (@willcarling) January 8, 2017
A quick glance at some of the responses to the tweet will give you a sense of what people felt of Carling’s opinion of the coverage of the story.
And boy did the good people of Twitter let him know exactly how they felt about his comment.
@willcarling Will does this every few months. Bless him
Its a lesson in how this whole charade works
Sport stars stick together, blame press— Mark O (@mocycling) January 8, 2017
@willcarling will you’re talking rubbish! With that thought you don’t know the half of what’s going on.
— Wesley Fallon (@RafaFallon) January 8, 2017
@willcarling not sure why any British journalist would be ‘jealous’ of British sporting success Will. Doesn’t make sense to me.
— Matt Lawton (@Matt_Lawton_DM) January 8, 2017
@willcarling jealousy of success or, in many cases, valid questions about misleading explanations, Jiffy bags etc? MPs also asking them.
— Paul Hayward (@_PaulHayward) January 8, 2017
.@willcarling Jesus Will. They clearly breached their own rules from word go. There’s no jealousy. This is a fundamental failure.
— Stuart Randall (@SJR1978) January 8, 2017
@willcarling You were probably saying the same thing when journalists were going after Lance Armstrong and he was playing the victim.
— Choccy’s Diary (@Daveybear1) January 8, 2017
Brian O’Driscoll didn’t pass up the opportunity to roast the former international centre after he received such backlash.
well that went well for you!!!
— Brian O'Driscoll (@BrianODriscoll) January 8, 2017
sometimes you just have to say what you feel, whether it goes well or not….
— Will Carling (@willcarling) January 9, 2017
