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Tweets of the week: Barrett wants Rooney at Wrestlemania, NBA’s finest gather for All-Star weekend

Sport360 staff

16:53 19/02/2015

Sport360 picks out the highlights from the sporting Twittersphere with Wayne Rooney, Stephen Curry, Lewis Hamilton, Mo Farah and the U.S Embassy all featuring.

Wayne Rooney’s dive at Preston on Monday night got WWE wrestler Wade Barrett all worked up, calling out the Man Utd star. Rooney took it all in good humour, especially when ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin got involved.

 

NBA’s finest in New York for All-Star weekend 
Either marvelling at MVP Russell Westwood, 3-point king Steve Curry or Slam Dunk starlet Zach La Vine. There were also one or two stars in attendance at the NBA All-Star weekend…

 

Mo Farah shows his angry side 
The usually mild-mannered Mo Farah was drawn into a Twitter spat with GB team-mate Andy Vernon this week. Vernon accused organisers of setting up weak fields when the double Olympian races at home…

 

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Americans still don’t get cricket. The US Embassy in Kabul got a little too excited tweeting about Afghanistan’s ‘win’ against Bangladesh… after the 10th over.

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