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Keep It Short And Sweet: Notable Tweets Of 2014, Part Two

A look at some of the top tweets from '14.

FIFA President SEPP BLATTER: "Sport says no to racism. I fully support @NBA's decision to ban @LAClippers owner for life after his racist words"

AP's ROB HARRIS: "No demands from UEFA for one of its members, the Spanish FA, to get tough on racism after 2 weekends of incidents"

London Daily Mirror's OLIVER HOLT: "Idea that FFP is there to protect the smaller clubs is a fallacy. It's there to protect the elite, to stop smaller clubs ever breaking thru"

British Gold Medalist MO FARAH: "Hi guys! I will be running in the Commonwealth Games this year..!! See you in Glasgow..!! Shabba....!!"

London Telegraph's PAUL HAYWARD: "Countries tend to get ready for World Cups and the Olympics - somehow- but Brazil seems uniquely chaotic"

Reuters' TARIQ PANJA: "Despite all of the chaos around FIFA in last few years how many sponsors lhave walked? zero. TV sales only going up too ."

Sky News' PAUL KELSO: "Blatter dancing with Fernanda Lima at FIFA Congress like a man at his granddaughters' wedding. He seems to be bearing up under the pressure"

PA's MARTYN ZIEGLER: ''French national anthem fails on PA system in Port Alegre - that'll teach Platini to challenge FIFA."

London Guardian's OWEN GIBSON: "If there was to be a Maracana security breach, am guessing Fifa and organisers would have preferred it was not in the press room...."

ESPN's DERMOT CORRIGAN: "Gonna be interesting to watch MD, Sport, Marca etc over next few days. Orchestrated campaign to get Suarez to Spain might go on pause."

RIHANNA: "Rodriguez!!! He's just a baby!"

Footballer RIO FERDINAND: "No more please..I can't take this no more...it's hurting..feel for the Brazilian fans here....wow. Will these players ever recover from this"

London Times' DAVID CHARTER: "Oh dear. The Germans have landed and the huge crowd on fan mile in Berlin is singing "football's coming home"...in English"

London Guardian's OWEN GIBSON: "My five year old asked me today: "Why is the Commonwealth?" I must confess I struggled."

BuzzFeed's KEN BENSINGER: "Argentina defaults and Grondona dies. Bad day for Argentina? Or perhaps the creative destruction needed to move past history and grow?"

NBC Sports' WILL BUXTON: "The intricacies of the German legal system have facilitated what some will see as an odd conclusion. Don't hate the player, hate the game."

FIFA President SEPP BLATTER: "Very sad news about Robin Williams. Great memories of him and Faye Dunaway at World Cup draw in '93. We'll miss you."

Bloomberg's TARIQ PANJA: "UEFA say total losses of European clubs down to 800 million euros, had been as high as 1.7 billion euros. They say consequence of FFP"

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