Can’t a bloke watch the footy in peace? PM says it wasn’t his man cave

WHEN the Prime Minister’s office tweeted a picture of Malcolm Turnbull watching the Socceroos, it turned into an own goal. Now he has responded.

Bad cabling, bad curtains, good result. The PM catches the Socceroos. Picture: Twitter

POOR Malcolm Turnbull.

Even when the Prime Minister settled in after a hard day’s same-sex marriage media spruiking to catch the Socceroos downing Honduras he couldn’t catch a break.

He was mocked for his man cave. Turns out it wasn’t a man cave, but the Prime Ministerial bedroom at The Lodge.

But when Mr Turnbull’s official Prime Ministerial Twitter account @thepmo posted a picture of him “watching the Socceroos get the job done” om Wednesday night, it was bombarded with derision for the state of his surroundings, his badly-furnished “man cave” and his TV set-up.

The Prime Minister watching the @Socceroos getting the job done against Honduras. pic.twitter.com/4Y6HcsqVFG

— The PMO (@thepmo) November 15, 2017

The response from the Twitterati ranged from the politically pointed to the hilarious.

Worst man cave EVER!

— Mark Malone (@MaloneConnect) November 15, 2017

Turns out it wasn’t Mal’s man cave, as the PM explained on radio on Friday morning to Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa it was the bedroom at The Lodge in Canberra.

He and wife Lucy, he said, had to watch the bedroom TV because the batteries were flat in remote for the television in the lounge room.

“The zapper in the family room was dead and rather than look for a battery we watched it the bedroom. It’s not the man cave and the television just sits on a mantelpiece,” the PM said.

Still, many were concerned about the myriad cables running into the TV, others with the TV itself.

Clearly just a temporary resident at the Lodge... can’t drill holes in the wall to run the cables.

— Dave Taylor (@DaveTaylorNYUK) November 15, 2017

Man he got his Xbox, PlayStation, Wii, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, video camera, karaoke machine, laptop, toaster, and hair dryer plugged into a 24" 720p LCD smh...

— Corey Jump (@KornKat2020) November 15, 2017

Others were worried about the decor ... and the bad feng shui.

I'm distracted by those awful drapes😁

— BHPUNTER (@bh7000) November 15, 2017

The PM defended the curtains: “Luce chose them and they’re a beautiful Australian fabric, with Australian flora ... wattles and gum leaves ...”

One Twitter commentator suggested the PM could afford a better TV set-up, only to receive the reply “that’s what happens when you spend $122 million on a survey” — a direct sledge at the cost of the same-sex marriage poll.

And some couldn’t resist comparisons to the much-maligned NBN.

No wonder the NBN is a mess - check out that cabling setup for the tv...

— Pagliacci (@PagglesOz) November 15, 2017

But others just wanted to improve the PM’s viewing pleasure.

His office TV is on the floor, and The Lodge TV is on a mantle, way too high. Somebody buy the man a TV stand.

— Graeme Ettinger (@gmraqua) November 15, 2017

There was even an offer from someone to loan the PM a TV so he could truly enjoy the World Cup.

We make it Twitter 1, PM 0.