In the spotlight of the Premier League, sometimes it pays to show a little restraint off the field as well as on. Talking this week to Newcastle United captain Jamaal Lascelles, he told of the Christmas Twitter spat that never was.
Irked by criticism of Newcastle's defensive tactics by pundits including Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher after his team's 1-0 home defeat by Manchester City, Lascelles briefly considered laying the matter out in the open.
Neville labelled Newcastle's first-half efforts 'embarrassing' and Carragher suggested the Premier League was becoming a 'joke'.