Joey Barton: Fine and punishment
THE important thing to remember about Joey Barton, the only thing to remember about Joey Barton, is that he is a convicted thug.
As news programmes broadcast their reports of the player's 12-match ban and £75,000 fine for his antics at the QPR/Man City match they repeated footage of the incidents, or rather incidents, that led to the FA decision.
There's a football saying. Not the one about football being a game of two halves.
But one I've just made up about football, in Barton's eyes, being a game of one-third headbutting, one-third elbowing, and one-third kneeing.
Vincent Kompany, Carlos Tevez, and Sergio Aguero, respectively, know what that means.
If it had happened in the street, or a nightclub, Barton would have ended up in court again.
QPR are said to want rid of the troublesome captain (Captain? How did that happen?) and are looking for clubs daft enough to take him or even take him back.
The Toon would not be so stupid to take on such a massive pain in the backside having got shot of him once, would they, but it's a funny old game and anything is possible.
Watching the footage of why it's a bad idea to have anything to do with Barton should be compulsory viewing for football managers and chairmen.
Barton has a history of violent conduct and was jailed in 2008 for assault.
He has no place on a football pitch where, by virtue (there's a word you don't often hear in the same sentence as the player) of his position he is looked up to by fans.
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Stop jumping on the sanctimonious, holier than thou bandwagon! Joey Barton got this punishment because of who he is, not what he did. There was barely any contact between him and Tevez, a nudge on Aguero and he went down like he had been shot, whilst there was a verbal exchange with Kompany and nothing more.
When Alan Shearer deliberately kicked Neil Lennon in the head (yes, if it had happened in the street or a nightclub he too would have ended up in court)it was dealt with as an accidental tangle of limbs, as a ban would have meant Shearer missing the Euros that summer, yet Shearer has the gall to appear on MOTD and pontificate about Barton's bad behaviour, as did Hansen and Lawrenson, two players whose thuggery at Liverpool was legendary.
Hypocrites one and all!!
Think the ban for kneeing Aguero was fair enough, that was unprovoked. He did lash out at Tevez, but it was in retaliation to Tevez trying to punch Barton in the first place. Yet Tevez gets no punishment. Honestly ridiculous. The headbutt with Kompany was not a headbutt; Barton squared up to him, but it was not a headbutt. He deserved maybe 5 or 6 game ban, but simply because it is Joey Barton he got 12
re mick bell;
how many times have hansen, lawro and shearer been in prison or in trouble with the law generally? yes shearer keeps getting referred back to the lennon incident but every single player has a few lash outs over the course of their career. remember ginola v dixon???? and as for your comments on lawro/hansen, can you name me a centre half in the 80's who wasn't a thug? joey barton is was and always will be a trouble making scumbag with a seige mentality. joey barton deserves everything he gets.
joey barton shuold NOT! be punished for kicking sergio aquero in the leg you idiots ok are you fine with that.
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leave joe alone one day soon he will meet his master, one the field or steet.then his playing days will be over. giv it time.
I don't really know much about Barton, but I am just hoping that he learned from those mistakes he made before. I am sad to know that he'd been jailed because of it.
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