Jon Wilkin reveals the time he beat a Twitter Troll

Unfortunately, in this day and age twitter abuse for those in the public is all too common and rugby league is no different.

Jon Wilkin was a top player which of course attracts attention and now he is a top pundit.

So, unfortunately he has had to deal with more than his fair share of Twitter abuse.

That said, it isn’t something that bothers the former St Helens man.

When speaking about this on the brilliant The Bench podcast, he revealed that it “just rolls off” him whilst opening up on the time he beat a Twitter troll.

“The Twitter stuff just rolls off me. There was one guy though, a Wigan fan who was threatening to burn my house down for like 12 months,” he said.

“But he had a *beeped out* t-shirt in his profile picture so I called him that he works at *beeped out* in Wigan, so I rang and gave the name in and copied and pasted all his tweets and he got a very harsh disciplinary shall we say.

“The pen is mightier than the sword, or keyboard.”

He then joked:

“If a fan is going to take time to abuse me, make it good.

“If you’re going to waste your breath and say something to a player than make it good.”