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He's a monumental bellend. I bet he's not getting the interest he thought he would and thats fuelling his nonsense.

 

He did refer to the rag as "The S*n" though when one of their hacks responded to him.

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Stanley Leisure nailed him with regards to his desperate attempts to appear urbane and cerebral - "He's like a f***ing student after one psychology lecture."

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I can't stand him and his 'man of the people' act he's tryna portray on twitter he's a monumental k*ob.

 

A 'Second Chance'?

Since Barton got the attention of the Twitter world for a few hours yesterday by basically doing the equivalent of jumping up and down and shouting 'LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!', and his subsequent turfing out by Newcastle, Mediawatch has noticed a troubling shift in opinion about yer man.

 

Assorted e-mails and other such missives have almost tried to paint Joey as some sort of working-class hero. Simply because he seems to be a few IQ points above the average grunt-level footballer, people seem in thrall to him.

 

The Daily Mirror's Darren Lewis said on Monday: 'If he doesnt get another club Joey Barton could always go into marketing. Cant remember the last time Twitter held its breath like this.'

 

A Newcastle fanzine editor is quoted this morning as saying: "You have to admire both Kevin and Joey for coming out and telling the fans what a shambles Newcastle United is behind the scenes."

 

'His talent is not in doubt,' has been another popular refrain, and while he may be a fine footballer in theory, he's only actually displayed anything like that talent for one of his four years at Newcastle.

 

Those four years were of course interrupted by a spell in Strangeways, during which Newcastle continued to pay his wages. Compare that with Dave Whelan at Wigan, who sacked Marlon King before the judge's gavel had finished banging. The idea that Barton has been treated badly - an idea that he and his agent Willie McKay are trying to peddle - is laughable.

 

For those thinking that Joey deserves another chance, let us remind you of the number of second chances Barton has enjoyed...because many of you seem to have forgotten.

 

He stubbed a cigar out in someone's eye. His eye. He started a fight in a friendly match against Doncaster in 2004. He attacked a 15-year-old Everton fan (admittedly under some provocation) on another pre-season tour. He made Ousmane Dabo look like this, then earlier this year called Dabo a 'pussy' over the incident. And, of course, spent a couple of months inside for battering seven shades of something unpleasant out of a man near a McDonalds in Liverpool.

 

For any Premier League manager apparently willing to give Barton another 'second chance', remember how many of those he has tossed away.

 

From Football365, sums up my feelings on him and his situation at Newcastle.

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Joey Barton may be abrasive but his anger is diminished

 

Oliver Kay

August 8 2011 12:01AM

 

In view of his reinvention as the great philosopher among football’s Twitterati, it was almost disappointing that Joey Barton, on being described as “dangerous” by Fabio Capello, did not borrow from Oscar Wilde, who once wrote that, “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

 

As it was, Barton reacted with quiet humility, his response more evocative of that other Wilde-ism about it being preferable to be talked about than not. At least, for once, it was the Newcastle United midfield player’s football that was being talked about, rather than his past indiscretions, his contract situation or his candid and highly eclectic Twitter account.

 

It was specifically Barton’s playing style that Capello, the England manager, described as “dangerous”, saying that he “might get sent off” and “you could end up ten v eleven”. It made for a juicy headline, but it sounded either disingenuous or misinformed; Barton may be many things, but it is a long time since he has been a liability on the pitch. His previous red card was in May 2009 and before that you would have to go back to his Manchester City days and December 2006, shortly before he was called up to the England squad, to widespread acclaim, by Steve McClaren.

 

The reasons why Barton has not added to his solitary England cap, against Spain in February 2007, have nothing to do with the number of yellow or red cards he might be at risk of being shown. For three years after his move to Tyneside, he drifted off the England radar, first suffering with injuries, then with the not-so-small matter of imprisonment and then from being part of a dysfunctional Newcastle team who would be relegated in lamentable fashion in 2009.

 

It is only in the past year or so that Barton’s form has demanded a rethink. He was certainly one of the most impressive English performers in the Premier League last season, but the question is this: just how well would Barton have to perform in order to persuade Capello or any future England manager that it is worth selecting a player with an excess of baggage. The most noticeable of which being a six-month prison sentence in 2008 (of which he served 77 days) after assaulting a man and a teenager in Liverpool city centre.

 

Barton committed so many heinous acts in his younger days that there would be a case for the FA to forbid any England manager from picking him – just as long as the same standards were applied to others.

 

But he is a changed man for those weeks spent in prison and the days spent in counselling, which have seen him teetotal for the past 2½ years — still abrasive on the pitch, still opinionated off it, but in control, not before time, of the raging anger that was at the heart of all his problems.

 

The characterisation is of a player who is more trouble than he is worth, whether to England managers or any club weighing up whether to sign him on a free transfer. Playing out his contract dispute in the Twitterverse has strengthened perceptions of him as a loose cannon, but cut through the shock and outrage and his comments are X-rated only in the sanitised language of modern footballer-speak.

 

Barton overestimated the weight of his disclosures when, a touch bizarrely, he borrowed George Orwell’s quote that “in times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act”. He was, for example, far less liberal with those uncomfortable truths than José Enrique, who was forced to shut down his Twitter account after a late-night rant at the Newcastle hierarchy.

 

In the right environment, playing for the right manager and in pursuit of the right cause, Barton would be a great asset, just as he was for Newcastle last season. There have been times, too, when his presence would have strengthened the England midfield options. But Barton would have to perform irresistibly for a long time in order to win a call-up now, a few weeks short of his 29th birthday.

 

So far Barton has not come close to that. But if he does so this season, Capello will have to think up something better than calling him “dangerous”.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/columnists/kay/article3117939.ece

jimbolala

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Barton seems to be like most of us on here, quick to voice his opinion, a bit if a mouth and has gotten into scraps when he was drunk. he is a decent player if we don't want him, why worry about him

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Stanley Leisure nailed him with regards to his desperate attempts to appear urbane and cerebral - "He's like a f***ing student after one psychology lecture."

Haha, absolutely spot on that.

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I wouldn't, he is an over privileged side show with too many apologists.

 

Overprivileged! A footballer, overprivileged? What ARE the odds on that ever occurring?

 

And I still would. He's a Scouser so that entitles him to certain inalienable privileges in my bwukkkk.

muleskinner

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Overprivileged! A footballer, overprivileged? What ARE the odds on that ever occurring?

 

And I still would. He's a Scouser so that entitles him to certain inalienable privileges in my bwukkkk.

 

He's a f***ing idiot. Proves it over and over again.

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