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Paul Weller spits on Sting
The Modfather gobs on The Police star

Paul Weller spat on a portrait of Sting on Wednesday (March 28) at the Teenage Cancer Trust gig.

As previously reported Weller joined Noel Gallagher at the charity event for a version of The Jam's 'The Butterfly Collector' and The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love'.

According to The Mirror, during the interval of the event at London's Royal Albert Hall Weller saw a picture of Sting's gig from 2000 and decided to deliver his own style of music criticism.

According to the report, Weller "marched straight up to it [the photo], coughed-up as much phlegm as he could muster and planted it plum in the middle of The Police frontman's head... as he walked away, Weller then snarled: 'Fucking twat!'".

Weller has never shy of expressing his opinions of Sting, recently stating: "He's a fucking horrible man. Not my cup of tea at all. Fucking rubbish. No edge, no attitude, no nothing."

I hope Weller does the same the next time he sees the actual Sting, otherwise his patented Knob-O-Tronic "Fucking Twat" Indicator will surely swing back towards him.

I have no time for Sting, but this is just a grown man playing to the gallery. It's like the older kids who come and act tough outside the school round the corner from my house - you get the impression they're desperate for kudos and running out of people to impress. Sure, if he finds Sting so repellant that he spits on him every chance he gets, and in this instance was forced to spit on a picture as there was no real Sting to be had, then fair enough. But I imagine they must've been at numerous industry schmoozefests together over the past three decades, and it's never been mentioned.

If I was drunk, I suppose I might conceivably gob on a picture of Sting (or would have done when I was younger), as a laugh with my mates, but then to justify it as anything other than knobbing around, to the NME of all people, is pretty fucking sad.

I would be more inclined to gob on a copy of the NME.

I think Sting is a big bag of dicks. Nevertheless, if Paul Weller had actually spat on Sting, this would be far more interesting.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Sting could kick his ass.

I've done this type of shit, but there's little chance of ever being near enough to the real man to do so in person. If I were actually in Stink's presence I'd probably just fuck with him the whole time, and if he got too shirty but wouldn't throw down with the fisticuffs I might blast him in the face with lungbutter, just to see if he'd throw a punch then.

But jeez, spitting on a picture at a benefit show is so chump. Unless he fucked Weller's woman the other day and Weller hadn't had a chance to get to him personally yet.

Are Weller and Sting in a competition to figure out which one is more boring, tedious and irrelevant?

Only if I could spit on Weller too. I'd rather call them both cunts though, spitting is dirty, I read it on the side of a bus

"Sting is a fucking horrible man. Complete rubbish. Now, for a Beatles cover. Take it, Noel Gallagher!"

I wouldn't piss on Sting...

No

He seems like a nice man


Though I would love to see Paul Weller get his stupid monkey face kicked in by Sting.

I'm sick of these fucking arsehole rockstars pretending there dead hard and edgey and then bottling it whenever they get near anything real.

I recall Robbie Williams challenging one such cock - Liam Gallagher - to a fight and Liam Gallagher did fuck all till he was surrounded by his big mates

I'd love to have seen Williams kick two shades of fuck out of that gobby Manc twat

not cause I like Williams, you understand - just cause Gallagher is a gobby Manc twat!