Joseph Barton

[soggy biscuit]

Tevez went down and stayed down - no rolling

You might want to go back and watch it again

[Franchise FC]

Tevez went down and stayed down - no rolling

You might want to go back and watch it again

I just have

[AthleticoSpizz]

Did Tevez get fouled playing for Citeh??

Couldn't be...

Mancini said that he would never play for them again

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Barton is right about Shearer - he's as boring and opinionless as Claridge

[Franchise FC]

Barton is right about Shearer - he's as boring and opinionless as Claridge

But however boring, wrong or weak Shearer, Claridge, Lawro, etc. are - there's no excuse for Joey's actions, no excuse at all.

The fact that he's publicly stated he tried to get someone else provoked to get them sent off simply reinforces the classless gimp. That's worthy of a disrepute charge of its own.

[AthleticoSpizz]

and pretty endemic in the professional game

[Franchise FC]

and pretty endemic in the professional game

and yet the commentators, particularly the ex-players, howl that no pro would ever try to get another sent off.

[Ian Royal]

You reckon Ian?

good contribution as ever there.



I'm edging towards the upper ends or higher thinking about what he's said since... if talking about his team mates suggesting, and him trying, to deliberately get a player sent off / injured isn't bringing the game into disrepute I don't know what is.

[SLAMMED]

A letter to Mr Barton..

http://mrjimmycorkhill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-letter-to-joey-barton.html

LOL

Brilliant

[just some bloke]

A letter to Mr Barton..

http://mrjimmycorkhill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-letter-to-joey-barton.html

LOL

Brilliant

There’s no I in team is there? But there’s a fucking I in prick!

Brilliant

[TBM]

Pot calling kettles and all that. Saint Alan of Shearer was quite capable of regularly swinging his elbows into opponents faces.

But being the saintly (no pun) figure that he once was, it was largely blind-eyed by the officials

Differences being, he didn't then brag about it afterwards

ermmmm like twatter/bookface was even around then?

What's that got to do with it?!

There were other means - its not as if Shearer played in the 1800's

[No Fixed Abode]

Like him or loathe him. It's refreshing to see a footballer these days that actually says what he thinks. There is no point watching pre or post match interviews with players or managers as they're so cliched these days.

[Silver Fox]

Morrisey loving troll backs Morrisey loving troll shock

[No Fixed Abode]

Morrisey loving troll backs Morrisey loving troll shock

It's just more lock jawed football stars, thicker than pig shit, nothing to convey. They're so scared to show intelligence, it might smear their lovely career. This World, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores..

[Wimb]

Like him or loathe him. It's refreshing to see a footballer these days that actually says what he thinks. There is no point watching pre or post match interviews with players or managers as they're so cliched these days.

Actually agree with Kes tbf, don't agree with 99% of the tripe he comes out with but at least it's not a bucket full of cliches.

[blindedbythelights]

well you can blame the press, not footballers, for that - if you dont stick to the sick as a parrot/over the moon script you end up misquoted by some lazy hack looking for a headline

[FiNeRaIn]

A letter to Mr Barton..

http://mrjimmycorkhill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-letter-to-joey-barton.html

LOL

Brilliant

pretty sure barton will pay him a visit and he won't be writing anymore letters like that lol

he might be trying to get his teeth back that are stuck to bartons forehead.

[TBM]

What Barton mouths off about after a game is fair enough - if he wants to act a dick then let him......but his actions on the pitch should be punished, heavily. Millions of kids were watching that game and although 95% of them would never do what he did, there may be some simpletons out there who think that if he can do it, get away with it and still play Premiership football then its ok for them to do it on a Saturday/Sunday morning.

[Royal Rother]

I was talking to someone last night about this Barton / Lineker "feud" and he confirmed, having 1st hand experience of Lineker and his family that he is indeed a dick of the highest order.

Yes, the shagging around was generally known but the whole Mr Nice image is a carefully constructed sham over many years - his kids are wild, arrogant gobshites over whom he has no control and he, and they, are classic "don't you know who I am" merchants.

Might be an exaggeration I suppose but what he told me surprised me I have to say.

[just some bloke]

I was talking to someone last night about this Barton / Lineker "feud" and he confirmed, having 1st hand experience of Lineker and his family that he is indeed a dick of the highest order.

So this is actually second hand experience, then.