The trouble began when Kenwyne Jones found a pig’s head in his locker at the training ground. Jones was sure that it was Glenn Whelan who was responsible for this prank and ended up smashing the wind screen of Glen’s car. The issue is currently being investigated by the Stoke City club officials.
The team has their final match lined up on Sunday with Southampton, so team officials are going to need to talk to both the players before that. A social media site carrying a caption “Locker room banter gone wild” posted the picture of the pig’s head. The post was by another team member, Brek Shea.
Kissa Abdullah, Jones’ partner, tweeted that humour which hurt someone’s belief and more so religious beliefs was not at all an accepted norm anywhere. Whelan, who is from Republic of Ireland and takes the teams mid-field position is whom she also accuses of placing the pig’s head wrapped up in Jones’ clothes in his locker.
The club officials have officially announced that investigations have begun and that the incident was completely unbecoming of whoever committed it. The club also mentioned that disciplinary action would be initiated against the perpetrator(s) of the act. They have however included that both acts of placing the pig head in the players locker as well as the player reacting and breaking the windscreen to be warranting disciplinary action. The investigation is being taken on by chief executive of the club Tony Scholes.
Kenwyne Jones hails from Trinidad and first played in the England league matches for Southampton in 2004. He moved to Stoke three years ago for a contract amount of £8m. He rarely speaks to the camera and has a principle of “put god first” which he had mentioned during one of his rare interview. Whelan on the other hand has been with Stoke since 2008 and is one year older than Jones. Whelan had also been named by Michael Owen as his suspect for an incident where his car had been covered with eggs and flour.