Brown should get a warning letter.......stupid thing to post anywhere.

Bazza.....if the yanks don't like being called yanks...can I suggest "Septics" instead?

Great post, think a few witch hunters on here are getting a bit carried away with themselves and using Brown as a scapegoat for political correctness.

If he had said 'as happy as a pig in ', there wouldn't be umpteen people coming on moaning they know pigs that don't like sh1T and are offended that they are percieved to do so. (Waiting for someone to chirp up about comparing homosexuals to pigs )

If he would have said 'I'm as happy as Larry' there wouldn't be people moaning they know Larry and he is a manic depressive due to the pressure of celebrity for being very happy.


People who want to make a stand for homosexuals need not combat the throwaway comments of a sportsman on twitter but need to do something about the way homosexuals are percieved in the mainstream media, for instance, having Julian Clarey, Graham Norton, 4 poofs and a piano and Paul O'Grady mincing about on TV does a lot more damage to the reputation of homosexuals and causes greater insult in my opinion.

It's called being professional, not politically correct. Professional sportmen are public figures. If they start throwing around daft comments in public (on something as mainstream as Twitter), then they are not being professional and harming their business.

Fella, after your last posting tirade about the history of the game, there's not point in discussing this with you as you have zero credibility

Er... no it didn't. Maybe you should look up the word "discuss"

Another great post.

Only if you believe that a professional sportsman gets paid JUST to play sport, which they don't, so it's not a great post.

I think if you look at the job description in his contract, it won't just say "play rugby league to the best of my abilities" in it.

Come on Wellsy13 don't be a crusader, why are you so bothered?

I aren't being a crusader. He shouldn't have said it and it was daft of him to do so. It's not a big deal, and isn't the end of the world. A simple warning is all that's needed to show that it isn't acceptable to be unprofessional in this manner.

It's people that think it's OK for public figures, including those who get paid well to be role models for their sport (which is their business and my business) to be idiots, so long as they perform on the pitch. It's not. It harms the business. It harms the sport. And therefore it potentially harms me and my business.

Nip it in the bud.

I see where you are are coming from, but why do we need it, why do players have to be so professional, why do businesses and fans have to be so touchy, why can't we just accept the difference between intended malice and joke, surely it's just plain common sense ?

There are no pits and steel mills any more. Had RL not been able to spread its appeal beyond that audience it too would have died long ago. Maybe it would spread its appeal a little bit further if certain elements involved with the game refrained from abusing minorities.