It’s almost as if the British television celebrity doesn’t learn. Piers Morgan has taken plenty of Twitter pangas with Indian sports in the past, but they seem to have taught him nothing.
Yesterday, he went on to diss Kabaddi as a sport in one of his tweets. And what followed was, as you may already have guessed, a pretty pissed off Indian Twitter rant.
In a cheeky tweet referencing Morgan’s previous fixation with correct grammar (on Twitter, phshh!), Virender Sehwag lauded India for inventing Kabaddi and massively rocking at it too.
India invented Kabaddi & r World Champs for 8th time.Elsewhere some country invented Cricket & r yet only good in correcting typos.#INDvIRN pic.twitter.com/IG9fucAMMo
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) October 22, 2016
And Morgan decided to tweet in response saying that Kabaddi wasn’t even a real sport. Bold move, to say the very least.
Kabaddi’s not really a sport, @virendersehwag – it’s just a load of grown men running around slapping each other.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 22, 2016
That’s when Indian-Twitter got up and went all, ‘Whoa whoa, whoa. The fuck you just say, foo?’
@piersmorgan @virendersehwag sour grapes!! What the English cant play becomes a non sport!! They believe playing only with the balls!!
— Harinarayanan (@jharinarayanan) October 22, 2016
Yeah @piersmorgan
Cricket Is Not Really A Sport.It’s Just A Load Of Grown Men Running Around Slapping Ball Wid Bathttps://t.co/PkQcU6YuY6— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) October 22, 2016
@piersmorgan O really ??? Come on… Be a sport. You would NEVER EVER win a cricket world cup ! @virendersehwag 😂😂😂
— Nandkieshore (@ndpaatil) October 22, 2016
.@piersmorgan @virendersehwag pic.twitter.com/Se0jx8IEqB
— Akshay Jain (@ComedyBanda) October 22, 2016
It’s as if the guy actually loves being trolled by the Indians of Twitter!