Stan Collymore has received criticism from anti-homophobic group for ‘fairies’ tweet

Stan Collymore has been criticised by an anti-discrimination group for his use of the word 'fairies' when tweeting about Manchester City's 3-0 victory over Southampton on Sunday.

The former Liverpool and Aston Villa striker, who has moved into a career as a broadcaster, sent out the following tweet in relation to referee Mike Jones' decision to show a yellow card to Sergio Aguero after he judged to Argentinian to have dived.

Easiest thing to slaughter a ref. Maybe if they didn’t have so many fairies going down like Devon Lock we’d get less confused decisions. — Stan Collymore (@StanCollymore) November 30, 2014

The term 'fairy' is considered to be a derogatory slang word for homosexual men and equal rights group Football v Homophobia immediately gave their take on Collymore's use of it - “Whatever you think about diving, homophobic abuse is unacceptable.”