Who's Solly now?

Back in February, this blog considered some of the utter tools who disgrace themselves while using Twitter to share their stupidity, nastiness and weirdness with a global audience. Specifically, reference was made to twerps who said remarkably ridiculous and unpleasant things in response to English football's two infamous cases of racially abusive language on the pitch last season.

Of the two berks discussed, one stood out as the more peculiar, a certain Solethu Feni, a Liverpool fan from South Africa. By no means the only idiot to have written utter bollocks in 'defence' of Luis Suarez in the wake of the Uruguayan's racist abuse of Patrice Evra, Feni was probably one of the more notable buffoons.

There wasn't much notable about what Feni said. Calling Stan Collymore a "black cunt" and Rio Ferdinand a "monkey" is pretty much par for the course when it comes to the level of discourse often seen on Twitter. What was slightly more interesting, though, was the strong evidence (his name, his photos) to suggest that Feni is a black man himself.

Although this is my england tweeted Mr. Feni with a link to the blog post mentioning him, he did not respond at the time. Now, however, nearly six months later, he has suddenly noticed the piece and stated his intention to pursue a legal action:

The grounds for any such action seem rather unclear. He tweeted what he tweeted. This blog simply flagged up what he said before wondering why a black South African would say such things. So he can't be thinking in terms of libel or defamation of character.

But it's disingenuous to pretend to wonder when Feni's lawyer will be in touch and what the nature of the legal action would be. Because he is clearly not serious. After all, while some foreign nationals do enjoy hitting UK courts for a spot of libel tourism, only the very wealthy can afford to do this - and Feni is clearly not a high net worth individual. How do we know? Well, yesterday he wrote a (since deleted?) tweet stating that he is twenty-nine years old and earns an average South African salary. Given that an average monthly wage in that country seems to be around the £250 mark, you'd have to assume that he'd get short shrift were he to ask the likes of Carter-Fuck to represent him in a British court.

Silly Solethu. Still, at least these days he doesn't seem to be pretending that he lives in England or that he made it to this year's League Cup Final.