Irate boxer receives apology from ‘troll’

The former professional footballer, who is from Driffield, was being verbally abused on the social networking website by someone calling themselves “The Master” after his defeat to Shayne Singleton in the English light-welterweight title fight on Friday.

The abuse included tweets saying: “Retire immediately... you are a complete disgrace” and “Haha, you lost you silly mug, fight a 10-year-old next time if you want to actually win.”

Woodhouse, 32, responded by offering his followers £1,000 for anyone who could provide an address or photograph of the person who was insulting him.

He then posted saying he had got an address and later put a photograph of the street where the Master was said to live.

The Master then responded by apologising and saying the matter had got out of hand.

After saying he had stood on his street waiting for the man to emerge, Woodhouse tweeted: “He never came out to play so I’m going back home. It was maybe a bit daft what I did today but sometimes enough is enough.”

Woodhouse, who played for Hull City and Sheffield United and England under 21s during his earlier football career, later joked that he had just discovered that you could block people on Twitter and could have saved himself £20 in petrol.

His actions have earned praised from sports stars including former World Champion boxer Lennox Lewis as well as footballers Andrew Cole and Joey Barton.