Video: Arsenal players brilliantly respond to mean tweets written about them

Per Mertesacker, Lukas Podolski and Mikel Arteta show Twitter trolls who's boss, with a little help from a certain bookie.

Footballers get an awful lot of grief on Twitter but most (we're looking at you Glen Johnson) don't bite back. Rather than take them on in the social media arena however, Paddy Power brought a camera to Arsenal's training ground to see if the players could directly respond to their accusers on Twitter. As a result we get to see if Per Mertesacker can indeed turn quicker than milk, if Lukas Podolski can really hit an actual barn door and if Mikel Arteta is better than some fella's granny at taking penalties. It is great to see the players take the piss out of themselves and it might, just might, make a few Twitter eejits think twice about tweeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7k1QkkhZk&feature=youtu.be