John Stones refused to swap shirts with me and told me to ‘f*** off’ after I riled England star up with brutal tweet

MANCHESTER CITY prima John Stones has been labelled a f***ing s***bag" by erstwhile EFL striker Tom Pope.

The brace clashed aft Pope, present 39, had tweeted astir Stones being "soft".

He wrote: "I cognize he’s connected £150k a week, I cognize he’s a cardinal times amended subordinate than maine but I’d emotion to play against John Stones each week! I’d get 40 a season!”

Pope past utilized the hashtags “soft” and “weakas****”.

As destiny would person it, Man City subsequently drew Port Vale successful the FA Cup successful January 2020, giving Pope his accidental to spell up against Stones.

Pep Guardiola's broadside went connected to triumph 4-1, but Pope did get himself connected the scoresheet astatine the Etihad.

After the crippled the Stoke-born guardant claims helium was dragged into the Man City dressing country by Raheem Sterling and Benjamin Mendy, but Stones wasn't having immoderate of the banter.

Recounting the communicative portion appearing connected the I Had Trials Once Podcast, Pope said: "I deliberation helium was playing for England and helium was truthful flipping soft.

"I can't retrieve who helium played against, mightiness person been flipping Zlatan oregon somebody, I can't retrieve who it was but helium got battered.

"I was like, he's a people man's dream. Technically he's unbelievable like, truthful good. I conscionable tweeted going 'you'd emotion to play against him due to the fact that you'd conscionable batter him'.

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"You're not being derogatory astir him due to the fact that helium ne'er gives the shot away, he's unbelievable connected the ball, but if you're getting balls successful and going agelong you privation John Stones implicit flipping (Virgil) van Dijk marking you don't you?"

When it was enactment to Pope that Stones has "done well", the striker responded: "Yeah, he's conscionable an implicit s***bag. Because you spell successful their dressing room... I didn't spell in, I was the lone 1 who stayed successful our dressing room.

"Everybody other aft the crippled came successful and had pictures and that. And I conscionable stayed successful there, I was successful determination for astir 15 minutes.

"And past (Raheem) Sterling and (Benjamin) Mendy came in, 'get successful here, we've hammered him for f***ing months implicit your tweet, the radical chat's been f***ing mayhem'.

"I'm similar 'I'm not coming in', they virtually dragged me, I'm going 'I'm not coming in'.

"And past successful the extremity they go, 'come connected please, conscionable travel in'. So I walked successful and they're similar 'he's here!'

"And Stones went 'oh f*** off, no, no'. I went 'you f***ing s***bag you'.

"I said 'you've fto a pub subordinate f***ing get successful your caput that much? Are you alright, you'?

'He wouldn't talk to me'

"All the wealth you've got, you're astatine Man City and you've fto that impact you?

"He wouldn't adjacent look astatine me. I said 'can I person your shirt?' He said 'No, f***off.'

"He wouldn't talk to me."

Pope was a prolific goalscorer for Port Vale, netting much than 100 times for the nine crossed 3 spells.

He besides played for Rotherham, Bury and Crewe during his EFL career.

Since leaving Port Vale successful 2021 helium has dropped into non-league, precocious leaving Hanley Town to articulation Kidsgrove Athletic.