‘People get tweet happy’ - Greg Tansey responds to Clevid Dikamona

Greg Tansey admits the manner of his two-match ban left a bitter taste after Hearts defender Clevid Dikamona posted a clip of the St Mirren man’s challenge on him on Twitter.
St Mirren's Greg Tansey. Picture: SNSSt Mirren's Greg Tansey. Picture: SNS
St Mirren's Greg Tansey. Picture: SNS

Dikamona tagged the Scottish Professional Football League in some now-deleted messages, prompting Aston Villa’s former St Mirren and Hibernian midfielder John McGinn to call him a “grass”.

Tansey subsequently received a two-match retrospective ban.

The 30-year-old, who returns for today’s trip to St Johnstone, said: “I don’t want to get into trouble and say too much but the way it happened left a bitter taste in my mouth. But these things happen and you have to take it on the chin and deal with it.

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“I’ve got an inbox, he could have taken it up with me there, but he didn’t. It’s not a problem, it’s gone now. People get tweet happy sometimes.”

Tansey – who returned from a 16-month groin problem after joining St Mirren in January – has previously experienced the dark side of social media.

“I had a little bit of it in Aberdeen,” he said. “When I was out for the length of time, because Aberdeen hadn’t said anything, fans started wondering why I was out. And then you get rumours. A couple of my mates from Aberdeen text me and said there was a rumour going round that you had a drink problem, hahahaha. They knew I could barely get out of bed. It would actually have cheered me up to walk into a pub to be honest and have a few drinks.

“It can be a good place and it can be a bad place. On that occasion, him tweeting the SFA [sic], personally it’s not what I would have done.

“John McGinn had a little bit to say about it, which I had a little chuckle at.”

St Johnstone, meanwhile, hope to welcome back goalkeeper Zander Clark after four games out with a hamstring injury.