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Five things... That could explain why Joleon Lescott tweeted a car
1) Accident
Football players can react to defeat in various ways. Tears, anger, remorse, blaming the referee, having revenge sex with an opposition player’s wife. But never before has a footballer acted in the manner of Joleon Lescott, whose immediate response to Aston Villa’s 6-0 home defeat by Liverpool on Sunday was to tweet a photo of a car. The unprecedented pictorial outburst was accompanied by no text, no emojis, no explanation. Just a mysterious image of a brand new silver Mercedes-AMG, posted about an hour after the final whistle blew at Villa Park. Lescott later said that the tweet had been sent accidentally while he was driving with his phone in his pocket. Fair enough, mystery solved. Or was it?
2) Escape
Very few people believe Lescott, arguing that tweeting a photo of a brand new silver Mercedes-AMG by accident would require a succession of events so unlikely that the defender’s explanation is beyond the realms of possibility. For example, it’s technically possible that Lionel Richie will accidentally tweet a photo of a wolf to his 238k followers tomorrow. But for this to happen he would need to access a photo of a wolf, save it, then go onto his Twitter, add the photo of the wolf and then unwittingly post it - all while driving a car. Sure, it could happen, but it’s a million-to-one shot at best. In this context, it appears Lescott tweeted that car on purpose. But why? One school of thought is that Lescott intends to buy the car for £122,000 (its market value, and about two weeks’ worth of his wages) and use the vehicle as his means of escape from Remi Garde’s doomed outfit.
3) Distraction
Lescott’s detractors have accused him of arrogance for tweeting a photo of an expensive car to a follower base comprised mainly of football fans with less money than him. But even this allegation seems implausible, unless the centre-back’s mind is more warped than he had ever let on previously. An alternative possibility is that Lescott tweeted the car because he simply thought it looked nice, and he hoped that his followers would agree. He may have reasoned that looking at the car would distract fans from Villa’s performance, instead making them think, “Mmmmm nice car” and completely forgetting the Liverpool match.
4) Stress
From the moment he left Daniel Sturridge completely unmarked for Liverpool’s opening goal and then started blaming his team-mates for it, it was clear that Lescott was feeling the pressure during Sunday’s drubbing. It’s possible that his mind was in just as much disarray as Villa’s defence at the final whistle, and it’s in this vulnerable state that he could have become bewitched by a photo of a Mercedes. Staring at the car may have helped soothe his mind following the defeat and made him less sad, and he perhaps just wanted Villa supporters to be less sad too. Of course, this would have been a misguided belief, illustrating only that Lescott had become temporarily insane.
5) Strange dreams
It is also possible that Lescott was trying to help Aston Villa avoid relegation with his tweet. For instance, he may have had a recent dream in which he posted a photo of a car on Twitter and afterwards Villa won seven games in a row, so he merely sent the tweet out of superstition - in order to ensure that the rest of the dream played out. Equally, the tweet could be nothing to do with football. He may have had a dream that he tweeted a photo of a Mercedes and was then visited by a magical goblin that evening, in which case he was posting the car to increase the chances of the goblin appearing. In fact, there are so many explanations for Lescott’s tweet that it is unfair to criticise him without knowing the full facts behind it. Only one thing is certain - his performance against Liverpool was absolute toilet.
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