Alex Mowatt became the latest Leeds star to fall foul of Twitter with a misguided tweet paying tribute to the reviled Harry Kewell. Maybe it's time Uwe Rosler banned players from using social-media like Simon Grayson did?

In some ways it's sad. We supporters often complain that the superstars of today are too aloof and distant from the ordinary fan, not like the good old days when they'd catch the same corporation bus to Elland Road in the days of yore.

Regrettably social media attracts it's fair-share of brain-doners; like the numpties who dressed in masks depicting Katie Price's disabled-son Harvey en-route to Bristol City and then there was the keyboard-warrior coward who wished death on Marco Silvestri after the keepers late mistake in the same game.

Giuseppe Bellusci and Mirco Antenucci have also attracted a fair amount of nutters, with Bellusci unwittingly retweetmg an image of the tragic Madeline McCann. A recent survey also named Leeds fans as the most prolific twitter users.

Now Alex Mowatt has deleted a tweet showing his number 10 shirt alongside one of Harry Kewell's, Kewell was the modern day Leeds' superstars idol.

However this provoked a furious response from angry Leeds fans who have never forgiven Kewell for joining Galatasary in 2008.

If the manner in which Kewell engineered a cut-price move to Liverpool in 2003 wasn't sickening enough, events five-years later assured his entry in LUFC folklore would be eternally stained. Kewell played in both legs of the tragic 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final where two Leeds fans were stabbed to death prior to the first leg in Istanbul. Kewell was red-carded in the second-leg.

He then had the temerity to suggest he'd gone to Turkey as a "peace envoy".

It's hard to believe that Mowatt would not be aware of the depth of feeling this still provokes around Elland Road a decade and a half later from the Istanbul tragedy.

However I'm sure there was no malicious intent in his tweet. I'll be honest, if I was asked to put together a list of the top-twenty Leeds players I've seen in a Leeds shirt during my 26 years going to Elland Road then Kewell would be in the top five, Eric Cantona and Rio Ferdinand would be on the list too irrespective of how much I revile them as people.

Maybe Mowatt should have kept his pride at taking on Kewell's old number 10 shirt private? Maybe it's time Uwe banned twitter like Simon Grayson did?

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