Joey Barton - considerate fella

He probably is telling the truth and things have gone on but sounds like he's in the playground telling tales - he's finished in the game. No one will trust him ever again and I think he knows that

 

Surely the ones Barton was playing with aren’t still with the lasses they were then though. Him saying they cheated on an ex they split up with 15 years ago when they were in their early twenties is hardly front page news.

 

I'm just glad he's making more enemies because one of them will do something about him. What's the one way you can be absolutely certain someone can't talk? Unlucky joey

 

OR alternatively, he's doing what he's been doing all along which us saying provocative, empty things to try get clicks and stay relevant because he needs a job after being sacked yet again as a manager.

If he's doing all this to try get a job grifting for GB news or getting eyes on his controversial podcast, I guarantee his pockets aren't as deep as he says they are and I hope to god someone takes him to court.

 

When sarcasm passes some folk by.......

 

Legal issues
In 2006, Merseyside Police investigated after Barton exposed his buttocks to Everton supporters following a game on 30 September. On 4 October they announced that they would be taking no further action.

On 13 March 2007, Barton was arrested on suspicious of assault and criminal damage following an altercation with a taxi driver in Liverpool on 4 March. He was cleared of this charge in May 2008, after his cousin, Joshua Wilson, admitted to causing the damage.

On 1 May 2007, Barton assaulted his teammate Ousmane Dabo during a training session. Dabo was hit several times, left unconscious, and hospitalised with head injuries, including a suspected detached retina. On 16 May, Barton was arrested and questioned by Greater Manchester Police, and was later charged with assault. He initially pleaded not guilty, but later changed his plea to guilty. On 1 July 2008, Barton was sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence plus 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay £3,000 compensation and Dabo's court costs.

In the early hours of 27 December 2007, Barton was arrested on suspicion of assault in Liverpool city centre. Barton punched a man twenty times, causing him to lose consciousness, before attacking a teenage boy. At the time, Barton was on bail for two previous arrests, and he was denied bail for the third arrest. Barton pleaded guilty to the offence, and on 20 May 2008, he was sentenced to six months in jail. Barton's cousin, Nadine Wilson, and his brother Andrew Barton also pleaded guilty to their part in the assaults and received suspended sentences.

In August 2008, Jamie Tandy pursued a civil claim against Barton. Barton had stubbed out a lit cigar in Tandy's eye in 2004 while Tandy was a youth player at Manchester City. Tandy claimed that the incident caused a "major psychiatric deterioration in his health that has destroyed any chance he may have had of playing professional football at a high level." In November 2009, Barton agreed to pay Tandy £65,000 as part of an out-of-court settlement.

On 4 June 2012, Barton was arrested alongside three other men after a fight outside a nightclub in Liverpool. Barton claimed the he had been "sucker punched" in the incident. The following month, all four men were told they would face no further police action.

On 13 April 2019, South Yorkshire Police launched an investigation after Barton was alleged to have assaulted opposition manager Daniel Stendel in the Oakwell tunnel following a game between Fleetwood Town and Barnsley. In July 2019, Barton was charged with causing actual bodily harm and bailed until 9 October 2019. He pleaded not guilty. On 6 December 2021, Barton was found not guilty of the charge.

In July 2021, Barton was charged with the assault by beating of a woman at an address in Kew, London in June 2021. In March 2022, a court heard that Barton was accused of kicking his wife in the head and grabbing her throat while drunk, the case being adjourned to 23 June due to a late arrival of emails. The case was further delayed until the end of October, Barton's defense team being set a deadline of two weeks to provide the list of witnesses that they would be presenting and say whether or not the victim would be called as a defense witness. The case was dismissed on 31 October on grounds of the impossibility of Barton receiving a fair trial because prosecutors would not call the victim to testify.

 

As Jamie said in the tweet above, never in the news for anything negative.

 

He’s not saying anything you wouldn’t hear if you went into any pub in the land. There’s a lot of faux outrage about this. No one seemed to mind him being a manager despite all his actual violent convictions. But make off-colour remarks about Schofield or women’s football and it’s off to the Gulag!

 

In my opinion yes he is. And I don't tend to hang around in pubs with misogynistic racist thugs either so I wouldn't know

 

Well that's some take, I'll give you that....

 

Not the pubs I frequent and if anyone was daft enough to publicly voice those kind of opinions they'd be quietly asked to leave before the targets of their bile took matters into their own hands.
And...lots of folk minded him being a manager, but there's plenty of clueless club owners around.

The folk who support this kind of stuff tend to sit behind a keyboard, most of them keep it private.

 

It's not so much what he's said as the way he's saying it that's the main problem. Comparing female presenters to Fred and Rose West surely isn't being said in every pub in the land?

 

He's upgraded the Rose West comparison now to Stalin / Pol Pot.

 

I don’t know which type of you pubs you go where presenters and pundits are compared to serial killers and Stalin, but the average man in the pub is only blathering on to his mates. He isn’t holding court to literally millions of people who look up to him and then repeat those sentiments to other people and so on and so on. Barton has almost 3 million followers on Twitter alone, then there’s the many millions more who don’t follow him but see his posts. The person who the man in the pub is talking about normally has no clue what the man is saying about them, I doubt he’d be saying it at the top of his voice if the person was at the other side of the room, able to hear everything he was saying about them. Either through fear or because they’re not that horrible a person that they’d actually want to upset the person they’re taking about. They just want to vent to their mates, not bully someone.

 

My ex-girlfriend in Liverpool worked with the wife of Steve Whitehall, the Rochdale striker who scored against us once. He said that often you’ll hear a player is out with a ‘groin strain’ when in fact he really just has a bad case of the clap.

He nearly signed for Lincoln once, but it was reported that the deal broke down over ‘personal terms’. The personal terms were, in fact, that his wife had got on an ITU course that my girlfriend had also got on, and she told Steve that no way were they moving from Liverpool to Lincoln!

 

Listened to abit more of his podcast with James English. The bloke talks absolute ********.. says he joined went to Scotland to win titles with rangers... won nothing
Has respect for Barry Ferguson because he gave England a go and didn't just stay in Scotland like Scott brown.