Guest alex Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Best thing about it is the Arsenal players were definitely trying to rough/wind Barton up and he gets another one of their players sent off. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Steven Howard's piece in The Sun today is a disgrace Steven Howard says ‘loathsome’ Joey Barton is a nasty piece of work STEVEN HOWARD - Chief sports writer Email the author Published: Today Add a comment (58) IF FOOTBALL had a choice, it would have washed its hands of Joseph Anthony Barton many moons ago. But for a genetic fluke whereby he was able to kick a ball more or less in a straight line, Barton would probably have spent some considerable time at Her Majesty's pleasure. As it is, he's still done some 74 days behind bars as part of a six-month sentence for assault in his native Liverpool in December 2007. CCTV showed Barton punching a man umpteen times - knocking him out - and attacking a teenager. Earlier in the same year he got a four-month suspended term plus 200 hours' community service after assaulting Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo in training. The indulgent liberal elite will have us believe Barton is yet another victim of social deprivation and a troubled upbringing. Others suggest he has an admirable willingness to speak his mind (I did once) and the sort of overall intelligence that saw him quote George Orwell, George Washington and Nietzsche on Twitter last week. The vast majority, though, believe he is a totally nasty piece of work. To call him a bully, cheat and coward would not exactly have you up on a disrepute charge. In fact, Newcastle legend Alan Shearer is believed to have once summed him up in four letters. The ex-England skipper called him a 's**t'. Shearer also called a Barton challenge on Xabi Alonso that saw the so-called hard man sent off in May 2009 'a coward's tackle'. And so to St James' Park on Saturday and the start of another eagerly-awaited football season. Only for it to be blackened by the all-too recognisable behaviour of a man who, in the joyous event of his retiring from the game, could have a huge future in the acting profession. Yes, there is no love lost between Arsenal and Barton - Abou Diaby was sent off last season for retaliating after a typically robust Barton 'challenge'. And Barton had already been stamped on by Alex Song, who could well have been sent off. Then, again, this is the sort of incident Barton has escaped from without punishment on numerous occasions. But rather than the accepted 'live by the sword, die by the sword' philosophy adopted by most players who operate in a physical twilight zone, Barton ran off the pitch to 'report' Song to the fourth official. Then, when Arsenal new boy Gervinho went down in the box, Barton totally lost his head. Furiously manhandling Gervinho back to his feet in an unwarranted action that prompted a mass bust-up, Barton then threw himself to the ground, clutching his face, after a half-hearted slap from Gervinho that didn't even disturb his mascara. Barton went down as if felled by an 18 stone lumberjack. It was painful to watch. If Barton had anything about him at all - like a conscience - he would be too ashamed to show his face in public ever again. Hopefully, the FA will issue a retrospective red card that, at least for three matches, will spare us Barton's loathsome and boorish behaviour. Nor should the visually-impaired Peter Walton escape. His amateur and incompetent handling of the game was another reminder of the wretched level to which Premier League refereeing standards have plunged. But the real villain of the piece is Barton. The would-be intellectual who was banging on about freedom of speech last week after Newcastle owner Mike Ashley commendably said he could leave the club for nothing. Freedom of speech wasn't something Barton allowed the Manchester City trainee when he stubbed a lit cigar out in his face. Nor the young Everton fan he was sent home from a pre-season tour for assaulting. George Orwell famously said: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure of witnessing violence." How well Barton would have understood all this. What an absolute prick, trotting out tired old bollocks about his misdemeanours from the past, then coming out with this. Fair enough he went down easily are you trying to tell me more than half of the Premiership players would not have done the same??? Prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30368 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Absolutely nothing new in that article at all, the same old sticks will be used to beat Barton for the rest of his career and he understands that. Fair enough, he did go down like a tart but again, that's something he has held his hands up to. It's a nothing article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44492 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 The Pulitzer beckons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Yeah, I've grown tired of the amount of times Barton has done something like Song did in front of TV cameras and got away with it scot-free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44492 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Unfortunately it'll serve its purpose though by getting people onto the Sun website to post comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Aye, people like Stevie At least his comments will be a better read though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Orwell really disliked football and boxing in particular. He was shocked especially by the behaviour of female boxing fans; absolute trollops, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Orwell really disliked football and boxing in particular. He was shocked especially by the behaviour of female boxing fans; absolute trollops, apparently. *makes mental note to attend more boxing matches* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneColdStephenIreland 74 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Didn't Nolan do worse to Sczecezny last season in the 4-4 game yet that was a mere ripple in the sea to the media, yet theyre creating a tidal wave over the Barton incident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44492 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 The journos are desperate to get into an argument with Barton on twitter, cos they think it makes them relevant. I don't mind Glendenning but if Barton makes a tweet about something, Glendenning fires about ten in response in the hope that one gets a reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Best thing about it is the Arsenal players were definitely trying to rough/wind Barton up and he gets another one of their players sent off. Again. It'll be two players before the end of this week, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Just re-reading that Steven Howard article Stevie posted. Is that journo seriously suggesting Barton should have got up from the Song challenge and not muttered a word. Ergo he's advocating the use of stamping in the game. Absolute fucking disgrace. Whoever the recipient is there is absolutely no place for that carry on in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Best thing about it is the Arsenal players were definitely trying to rough/wind Barton up and he gets another one of their players sent off. Again. It'll be two players before the end of this week, surely? Song will probably get a 3 match ban similar to that of Mike Williamson for the incident and Bolton or was it Wigan? Somewhere in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 19978 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Anyone listen to this weeks The Game podcast? Fucking hell, what a crock of SHITE. They want us fining and docking points and blaming the London Riots on the likes of Barton and co. They were saying that most of the footballers today if they werent playing football they would be hooligans! WTF! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2962 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Pardoo has said, 'I think he might stay' after their 'chat' before the Arsenal game. Now if that is the case, Joey should be offered a contract and kept at the club long term. Until then I view the 'Joey might stay' quote as a load of shit which basically translates as 'the clubs interested in Joey won't meet his wage demands so we're stuck with him, so while we're stuck with him we may aswell let him play, him being our best and almost highest paid player and all'. The fact is, if Joey wants to stay, which he does from all reports, he has to be resigned. Personally, I can't see it happening because his reasons for not signing the contract offered to him in the first place are due to circumstances which existed and still exist at the club. The fact that any promises made by the manager or anyone else upto the Fat One are absolutely worthless means there is no way the player and the club can come to an agreement. Expect the drama surrounding Joey's possible departure to go on all season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peasepud 59 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Interesting tweet from him an hour or so ago. "What a guy, Isambard Kingdom Brunel..........." he referred to Brunel a couple of times when talking about building bridges with the club and Pardew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney 0 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I don't think he'll stay. Look how the club have dealt with Nolan and Harper. Smith would have been forced out too if anyone would take him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JaMoUsE 0 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 haha the video is class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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