LOUIS SAHA is just the latest to fall foul of the Premier League footballer’s new favourite weapon – Twitter.

He didn’t start Everton’s defeat to Manchester City at the weekend, with David Moyes preferring to use midfielders Tim Cahill and Marouane Fellaini as his attacking options.

Saha’s attitude, complaining about his omission from the squad to play Wigan and then declining to play a reserve team game last week, is a mystery to me.

We know that he can play, he has proven that wherever he has been throughout his career.

But we also know that he has lots of injury problems, and when a player like that comes back to fitness, he should be knuckling down in training and doing absolutely everything he can to get back into the first team picture.

There is not a lot of competition when it comes to attacking players at Everton, so he should be one of the first names on the team-sheet.

Instead, he has had his bottom lip dragging on the floor, his attitude has been poor and he has made Moyes’ decision for him. Voicing his frustrations on a social networking site was a very silly thing to do, and is sadly indicative of the modern player’s inability to avoid controversy.

It is becoming a dangerous thing, Twitter. Lots of players – Wayne Rooney, Joey Barton, Michael Owen, Nathan Eccleston – seem to be having problems with it, and it doesn’t surprise me one bit.

Players tweet constantly, with all kinds of things, but seems as though a lot of players’ most controversial tweets come when emotions are still running high.

From my point of view, I just think; why bother?

I could perhaps understand if it was a competitive thing between team-mates; a bet to see who can get the most followers in a week or something like that.

But tweeting that you are taking the dog for a walk, or that you are off to see ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’? Who cares?

It is banal, and the fact that anyone can send you a critical or insulting message – without even having to give their name – only makes it more bizarre for me. Footballers put up with enough of that when they play, I don’t know why they want to put up with it in the comfort of their own home. They should just concentrate on playing, and leave the tweeting to others.

Will I be signing up to it? Don’t bet on it!