You simply can't take that into account when passing a verdict though, you have to look at the case on an individual basis and simply at the evidence available. You can't base it on "Well he's a dodgy bloke so he probably did it" or "Well, you're a nice lad so we'll ignore that bit of evidence and assume you're innocent."
Probably just got his wallet straight out and tried to give a grand to the baliff.
I think its a trick, to make him look more "boyish". And hope the judge will fall for it
Tiger Wood's PR guys did the same thing and gave him a shirt a few sizes too big to make him look like a repentant little boy.
I fucking love joey barton, that angle where you saw him ping that cross in, freeze, and then throw his hands in the air like he just didn't care - fuck yeah.
Presumably the masked gang that turned up at his house and the Man U fans giving him dogs abuse all week on the internet will very quickly forget about this, like the scousers did over Gerrard wanting to go to Chelsea.
It's fucking typical isn't it, we sign a promising French flair player and he gets shattered into pieces, we bring through a local lad with bags of natural potential and he's a fucking moron.
It you crossed Terry Fuckwit and Biffa Bacon the result would look and act like Andy Carroll.
I cannot believe you have just said you would have Rooney at Newcastle. Genuinely blown away.
Could you honestly see it ending in anything but disappointment and disaster? I just can't imagine him banging in the goals and being a success, he's doing fuck all but skulk around the pitch snarling for Man U and England, what exactly would his motivation levels be playing for us?
Having a nightmare at the moment. Alex, crocked, Drogba, crocked, Sagna, crocked, Ben Arfa, crocked, Almunia, crocked, Albrighton, dropped, Luke Young, dropped, Samba, sent off and banned. Not a good week,