Mo Farah and Andy Vernon go at it in Twitter

Andy is such a butt hurt little bitch

But he's not wrong.

GDGDGDF wrote:

Andy is such a butt hurt little bitch

This is even funnier once you look at Vernon's twitter banner.

But seriously what's up with this guy? He always starts shit with other pro's on twitter.

Generally not a good idea to be calling out a fellow pro and countryman when your 10k pr is about a lap down from the target of your scorn. And it is a very stupid fanboy argument that the top guys should always race against the top athletes and take it to the limit every time out. Farah is just opening up his indoor season. When you sweep the Olympics in 5/10k, you get the privilege of choosing when to hit your peak racing.

how much does andy vernon weigh? he's like the british reincarnation of jason rexing.

Neither of them look particularly mature after that.

Precious Roy wrote:

Generally not a good idea to be calling out a fellow pro and countryman when your 10k pr is about a lap down from the target of your scorn. And it is a very stupid fanboy argument that the top guys should always race against the top athletes and take it to the limit every time out. Farah is just opening up his indoor season. When you sweep the Olympics in 5/10k, you get the privilege of choosing when to hit your peak racing.

Neither of them look good in this exchange. I'm just saying that Andy is right that Mo gets watered down fields in London (apart from the marathon, of course).

Andy Vermin just can't seem to let his legs do the talking.

"When you sweep the Olympics in 5/10k, you get the privilege of choosing when to hit your peak racing."

You'd think he'd also have the confidence not to get into a twitter battle. What's Mo care, just run your races, don't have to justify them to anyone. Even if they are cheap wins.

I'm not necessarily a Mo fan, but for Vernon to call out a double Olympic and double WC gold medalist as somehow "dodging" competition...strange. And while Mo hasn't run Bekele/Geb/Komon times, it's not like 26:4? and 12:53? are "slow"

Vernon must not understand that organizers have to have a draw, because no one's paying to see him run.

call me snake wrote:

how much does andy vernon weigh? he's like the british reincarnation of jason rexing.

He has "Beer Mile WR" written all over him

A couple MINOR points

1) WHO DA F**** is Andy Vernon?

2) You can't win 2 Olympic Golds and simultaneously dodge competition. INCOMPATIBLE. HEAD EXPLODES.

3) Someone said "except for the london marathon". The london marathon is no small ASTERISK. Mo Farah ran over 4X his usually racing distance, against a LOADED field, in arguable one of the HARDEST and LEAST predictable events. Because Mo ran that London he is FOREVER excused from "dodging the competition."

4) #WhoIsAndyVeron

This is comedy gold.

Neither of them are particularly wrong, but this is real entertainment.

Keep it going lads!!

OverTheHillAndBack wrote:

A couple MINOR points

1) WHO DA F**** is Andy Vernon?

2) You can't win 2 Olympic Golds and simultaneously dodge competition. INCOMPATIBLE. HEAD EXPLODES.

3) Someone said "except for the london marathon". The london marathon is no small ASTERISK. Mo Farah ran over 4X his usually racing distance, against a LOADED field, in arguable one of the HARDEST and LEAST predictable events. Because Mo ran that London he is FOREVER excused from "dodging the competition."

4) #WhoIsAndyVeron

It's a pretty simple point. Mo did London for a payday. He was absolutely not dodging competition there. We are agreed on that.

Andy did not say that Mo dodges competition altogether, but that's what you idiots keep implying by listing PRs, title wins, etc. He said that he gets watered down fields to run on home soil in the UK.

He's right. For reference, here is the 2 mile field this weekend:

Please show me a track meet in the UK where Mo had to race a really good field. I'm not saying that Mo is in charge of who is in the field, either, so don't bother going down that road.

And don't list the London Olympics races - we all know that people can't control the entrants for that race. We are talking UK invitational track meets. Like London Diamond League, Birmingham Grand Prix, etc.

OverTheHillAndBack wrote:

Because Mo ran that London he is FOREVER excused from "dodging the competition."

100% false. I am a huge NOP fan and I absolutely root for Mo more often than I should based on what I am about to say, but Andy Vernon is NOT saying anything untrue. Your Olympic comment contains some sense because obviously the best make it to the Games, but the tactical affair takes the air out of that sail. I admit, Mo wins big races and gets the job done more often than not. But to argue that he has absolutely face saturated fields in many many instances would be ignoring common fact.

He was ballsy to pick London for his marathon, I give him that. But one failed attempt at a race he had never run does not excuse him from every other time he has taken on a weak fields in his career.

If Mo isn't in charge of determining the field, why attack him about it? Why didn't Vernon ask / accuse the RD for not having any competition for Mo.

As far as the 2 mile you listed. It appears that a large part of the field is British. Just which British runners would be consider good competition for Mo? Bernard is there so maybe he can give him a run for his money.

OverTheHillAndBack wrote:

A couple MINOR points

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3) Someone said "except for the london marathon". The london marathon is no small ASTERISK. Mo Farah ran over 4X his usually racing distance, against a LOADED field, in arguable one of the HARDEST and LEAST predictable events. Because Mo ran that London he is FOREVER excused from "dodging the competition."

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Except for the very minor point that Mo didn't really compete with those guys. He had his own pacer and ran a slower race, as planned. He didn't try to win that race any more than I did.

This will not even be Farah tweeting it will be the vile wife , sad but true.