Whoever came up with the saying, ‘sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ clearly never ran into bother with a keyboard warrior.

Over in Denmark Brondby coach Thomas Frank has quit his job after chairman and major shareholder Jan Bech Andersen criticised him on an online fan forum.

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Andersen left the comments on ‘SydSien Online’ under a pseudonym, using his son’s account, but was outed by the media and eventually admitted to being behind the trolling.

Understandably Frank’s position at Brondby then became untenable after the collapse in the relationship between himself and Andersen, who owns more than 25% of the club.

It is no secret that the relationship between Jan and me has been strained from time to time, and after the last days of massive media attention, he and I had a talk. Based on that talk, I have chosen to end the cooperation. Frank

Can you imagine Ed Woodward going to those lengths to get rid of Louis van Gaal, or Mike Ashley hiding away on Toon Forum?

Actually yes, we completely can.

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