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Soccer Star Accidentally Reveals Team Change Via Facebook

by Terrence O'Brien on July 10, 2008 at 05:52 PM

Soccer Star Accidentally Reveals Potential New Team Via FacebookWhere will the madness end? We've seen people dumped on Facebook, fired because of Facebook, and now one football (that's what they call soccer across the pond) player has inadvertently revealed, thanks for Facebook, that he was trying out for a different team, unbeknownst to his current club.

UK soccer player Ashley-Paul Robinson, currently a member of the Crystal Palace team, updated his Facebook status recently to say "Ashley-Paul is goin fulham on monday. If i pull dis off im on dis ting," revealing his trial with a rival club. Robinson was apparently unaware that his status would be shared not just with his 194 Facebook friends, but with the entire London network. Worse still, it took Robinson a few days to realize his error. The next day he updated with "Ashley-Paul is travling 2 Bath With Fulham Fingers Crossed."

Upon realizing his faux-paux, he tried to make light of the situation with his status by posting "Ashley-Paul has been very naughty lol!" But his management wasn't laughing, and a source within the team is quoted as saying, "It's pretty embarrassing for the club that this guy is telling the world he's looking to leave the club." [Source: Shiny Shiny]

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