Very tall footballer tweets very good holiday joke

Strong tweet.
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Sam Haysom
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Very tall footballer tweets very good holiday joke
Here's Peter Crouch, in all his very tall glory. Credit: Mark Enfield/Mercury Press/REX/Shutterstock

Peter Crouch is a former England player. He's 6'7'' tall.

Nowadays he plays in the Premier League for Stoke, and fills his spare time by going on holidays and sending good tweets.

Sometimes he combines the two:

You can't go wrong with a mildly self-deprecating joke about height. 110,000 retweets and counting on that one.

Of course, this isn't the first time giraffes have featured on Crouch's Twitter feed.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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