Published: Aug 24, 2016, 07:52 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 24, 2016, 08:06 PM (IST)
A lot had been said and published about India’s performance at Rio Olympics by global media. The perennial cribbers Pakistan, who always play the dutiful role of an envious neighbour,criticised India’s two medals at the games. This, coming from a country which has failed to win a single medal at the international event in last 20 years, was clearly a case of grapes being sour. ALSO READ: When journalist Piers Morgan padded up to Brett Lee
Never mind, the Pakistani media got a befitting reply by Indian Twitter trolls, celebs, politicians and other active netizens. Now, taking a leaf out of Pakistan’s books, English journalist Piers Morgan, who has a sizeable base on social media site Twitter, blasted India’s performance at the event and even called the celebration over PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik’s success embarrassing. READ MORE: Virender Sehwag trolls Shobhaa De through Sakshi Malik congratulatory tweet; Amitabh Bachchan joins in
He tweeted:
Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that? https://t.co/FYSBM7ErAf
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
His completely uncalled for tweet earned him some solid bashing at the hands of Indian Twitter trolls, who taught the scribe an apt lesson. While some reminded him of England’s poor record at cricket world cups, others showed him the mirror on his country’s poor football record despite being the home for biggest football league.
Dear @piersmorgan, I hope someday you’ll be able to compete for Britain in the Olympic Games. If you can get your foot out of your mouth. — Jai ‘Zaiu’ Ranjit (@zaiuranjit) August 24, 2016
Dear @piersmorgan , not as embarrassing as what you doing since ages like racism, divide and rule, invasion, and human rights violations.
— TheBBC (@BabaBakChod) August 24, 2016
If kicking colonial dipshits out of one’s country was a sport,India would win hands down.#neverforget@piersmorgan @tariqvaidya @WalesOnline — Akshat Tyagi (@akshat95tyagi) August 24, 2016
@piersmorgan country with the biggest football league hasn’t made it past quarters in over 50 years in FIFA WC. How embarassing is that? — VIVEK KOKA (@Vivek_Koka) August 24, 2016
.@piersmorgan ODI World Cup for England = Error 404 not found. pic.twitter.com/oqRDfFZjYh — Leg Gully (@Sarcaism_) August 24, 2016
Cricketer of Eng who invented Cricket wildly celebrates after DRAWING a series @piersmorgan How embarrassing is tht? pic.twitter.com/JyAW0H8xoU — Sunil (@akshaykanitkar) August 24, 2016
However, the biggest stick he got was from former Indian cricketer and a Twitter legend these days, Virender Sehwag. Viru pa took to his Twitter handle to take on the ‘loser’ journo from England. He wrote:
We cherish every small happiness’, But Eng who invented Cricket,&yet2win a WC,still continue to playWC.Embarrassing? https://t.co/0mzP4Ro8H9 — Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 24, 2016
However, Sehwag was not the first celeb to take on him, as media personality Suhel Seth and famous writer Chetan Bhagat too responded to his tweet.
It did not end there, Morgan went on to add how important he was by mentioning Sachin Tendulkar followed him and gave out reasons for England’s debacle. However, Shane Warne also got into the act and tweeted.
Very embarrassing, Legend.
If @KP24 was playing, we’d win the WC.
Just as we won T20 WC & he was Man of Series. https://t.co/50X5YMQSQU— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
Why are you having a go at my Indian friends buddy ? I think enough talk about the Olympics & medal tallies ! Haha https://t.co/fnaVzYv8vM
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) August 24, 2016
Dear Indian Twitter, @sachin_rt only follows 77 people & I am one of them. Do the maths. #Winners
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
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