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On-loan Chelsea footballer is dropped after Conor McGregor comment on Instagram
Published 11:24 20 Mar 2016 GMT
Updated 11:40 20 Mar 2016 GMT
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What a guy.
Those are the three little words that got John Swift dropped from the Brentford squad for yesterday's Championship clash with Blackburn Rovers. The on-loan Chelsea youngster added the comment to an Instagram post by Irish UFC champion Conor McGregor which read: "Some days they love you. Some days they hate you. Both days I got paid." His response on Friday provoked the ire of Brentford supporters, who took the comment as criticism of them by the England Under-21 midfielder, something Swift denied. https://twitter.com/JohnSwift8/status/710955446274801665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Brentford manager Dean Smith was nonetheless alerted to the post and took a dim of view of it. “John wasn’t in the team anyway but he posted something on social media that I was made aware of," Smith said. “I spoke to him this morning and I just didn’t think it was right to put him on the bench today. “He explained it when he took it down and apologised. I don’t think there was any malice in it, but it was naive from a young lad."Explore more on these topics:
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