Pocket Tweets and Bent Fenders: How Joleon Lescott Became a Global Cautionary Tale
Joleon Lescott and the International Art of the Accidental Tweet by Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Tuesday dispatch PARIS—Somewhere between the Brexit vote and the collapse of the Turkish lira, the planet’s collective attention pivoted—briefly, gloriously—to a Manchester City centre-back’s mobile phone. Joleon Lescott, a man once paid to stop strikers, instead managed to…