Ferdinand 'mum joke' charge, so what about Scudamore?

QPR defender charged for sending tweet with the word 'sket' during deadline day playground spat

Queens Park Rangers' Rio Ferdinand
(Image credit: GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty)

It's hard to know which is more pathetic. The fact that a 35-year-old Rio Ferdinand used the down-with-the-kids word 'sket' and made a juvenile 'mum joke' in a tweet six weeks ago or the news on Tuesday evening that he has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association as a result.

You would have thought football's governing body in England might have more important business than bringing to book the QPR defender for his reaction to a little playground trolling, and the use of a word that millions of people – prior to Tuesday – had never heard of.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.