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Piers Morgan is an unbearable troll but he's not wrong about our Olympics failure

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Aug 24, 2016, 10:20 PM IST

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Morgan's not wrong. 2 medals is a terrible tally.

On Wednesday, Piers Morgan clashed with Chetan Bhagat, Suhel Seth, Virender Sehwag, Bret Lee and a host of other Indians on Twitter. 

 It all started when Piers Morgan, a journalist by day and a 24/7 bellend (closest Hindi translation would be g***du) mocked Indians for celebrating PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik’s silver and bronze medals. While this didn’t go down well, with Indian Twitter taking special pleasure to attack Morgan, For the uninitiated he is like Shobhaa De on steroids, and exists to take mickey out of people, acting like a pompous prick taking special pleasure in correcting people’s grammar.

There’s no way to beat him in an argument as many people have seen, including Jeremy Clarkson (who once punched him) and Lord Sugar.  Oh and just to throw it in there, he supports Donald Trump for POTUS but Morgan is  man who is not easily trolled or beaten down. It started when Morgan said on Twitter: “Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that’”

And later added: “Indian Twitter definitely wins Gold at trolling. If only their athletes were as skilled.”

Now Chetan Bhagat decided to troll back, but in his own intimate style which demands a grammar mistake. He wrote a stinging reply but managed to misspell Piers Morgan’s name: “We honor achievers Peirs. Top 3 in the world, despite 3rd world sports facilities isn't loser. It is freaking amazing!”

To which Piers Morgan replied: “Noted, Chatan.”   This led Chetan Bhagat to reply to point out Piersy’s mistake without realising he’d made one on his own.: “It's Chetan. And sorry about the trolling. I get my fair share. Celebration or outrage, we tend to overdo. Clearly.” 

To which Piers replied: “I know how to spell your name. It was a little joke because you didn't know how to spell mine....”

This led to some rather bizarre tweets as the internet lost its shit over Chatan v/s Peirs.

 

But Morgan wasn’t done and kept on trolling all comers and the truth is no matter what we say we know Piers isn't wrong. Winning just two medals is a truly terrible count. There are no two ways about it. While there's the tale of lack of facilities and government apathy, none off that excuses our nation's sporting failure. While we may take pleasure in trolling Morgan, an honest introspection is the need of the hour so that come Tokyo 2020, we don't have to encounter a similar fiasco. A country of more than billion people getting just two medals shows skewed priorities of our policy makers and inability of our athletes to truly rise to the occasion. India continues to be hopelessly a cricketing nation in crowd support and sponsorship (or is it the other way round) and until it changes our athletes will continue to languish far behind. 

Here's how Twitter tried to troll him back: