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Tweets of the week: Premier League returns, Joey Barton on receiving end of hammering

Sport360 staff

17:19 14/08/2015

Sport360 picks out the highlights of the sporting Twittersphere with Philipe Coutinho, Caroline Wozniacki, Joey Barton, Floyd Mayweather and Kevin-Prince Boateng all featuring.

The Premier League is back which means our timelines were flooded with football tweets last weekend providing play-by-play commentary during the matches. David Silva’s performance during Manchester City’s 3-0 win over West Brom earned many plaudits while Liverpool fans – headlined by their No1 supporter Caroline Wozniacki – were happy with their team’s opening victory against Stoke.

Barton on the receiving end of hammering
When news broke that West Ham were going to sign Joey Barton people on the internet did what they do best: dug up two year old tweets from West Ham chairman David Gold criticising Barton for exchanging insults with Dietmar Hamann on social media in January 2013.

Bucaneers are no pioneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced the launch of an embarrassingly sexist new programme, RED, designed to offer female fans tailored insight into the world of pro football. Naturally the reaction was not great.

Mayweather gets roasted
Ronda Rousey has new fans. Why? Because Floyd Mayweather fired at her, saying she can call him when she “makes over $300 million in 36 minutes”.

Tweetlets
Sloane Stephens celebrated her maiden WTA title, Juventus striker Fernando Llorente is warming to Italy more and more, Kevin-Prince Boateng, who failed to secure a move to Sporting CP in Portugal, found solace in a surprise meeting with LeBron James while British boxing legend Chris Eubank obviously isn’t a fan of Alan Partridge and was demanding answers… much to everyone’s amusement. Anyone for monkey tennis?

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