TaylorJ_01 Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Is that balotelli? ffs, no Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Balotelli will be off this planet at the minute, why would he be tweeting about Barton and Shearer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Name wouldnt have surprised me The tweet itself made it a long shot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Mark Douglas from the Journal Mark Douglas @MsiDouglas Re: Barton. I still have the Tweets/emails from Aug telling me I was a club/Ashley patsy for suggesting they'd be better off without him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 You were right one time Mark, no need to milk it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Aye, Balotelli will be busy high-fiving trannies on the moon right now man, get a grip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2143960/Joey-Barton-bully-run-time.html The only real surprise is that anybody should really be surprised. Joey Barton’s career - such as it has been - has been characterised by violence. How appropriate that his thuggish, uncontrollable temper should come to the surface again at the club where it all started. People have made excuses for Barton for too long. From those at the Sporting Chance Clinic who have helped him so much, to those on Twitter who seem so happy to fall at his feet just because he deigns to reply to them. Yes, you know who you are. For those of us who have witnessed Barton’s career from its inception under Kevin Keegan 10 years ago, nothing that he does on or off the field ever comes as a shock. He can cloak himself all he likes in quotes lifted from dictionaries and lyrics borrowed from The Smiths. Ultimately, he remains a deeply violent man. The first sign of his latest shameful episode came on Sunday when Carlos Tevez was spotted lying prone on the QPR 18-yard-line after 53 minutes. The linesman had seen a sly Barton elbow to the Argentine’s chin. Referee Mike Dean’s red card was swift but Barton never goes quietly, does he? There was still time to knee Sergio Aguero from behind, then come into conflict with Mario Balotelli and Vincent Kompany as he reluctantly walked off the field. Only the shepherding arm of former team-mate Micah Richards stopped further confrontation. Ultimately, this didn’t cost QPR. It harmed Manchester United more as it afforded City the added time they needed to turn this incredible afternoon on its head. But that is not the point. This is a team sport and Barton has never understood this. In his mind the spotlight shines only on him and one would imagine it will shine brightly when Mark Hughes kicks him out of the club this summer. The QPR manager said on Sunday: ‘We lost Joey to a sending-off and it shouldn’t have happened. That was the only negative. I haven’t spoken to him. In fact, I haven’t seen the incident again. ‘But I have heard what happened and it was a sending-off. Forgive me if I don’t get into it any more but I don’t want to detract from what we have achieved here today.’ Hughes was a combative sort when he played. He knew how it felt to be in a battle. But true warriors fight nobly and largely within the rules. They don’t resort to cheap shots and elbows on the blind side. Barton, in short, is a bully. He attacked a club-mate - Jamie Tandy - with a lit cigar at a City Christmas party. He set upon another - Ousmane Dabo - when the Frenchman’s back was turned at the training ground. They are still picking up bits of Dabo’s teeth. If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be funny. If so many hadn’t fallen for his faux intellect since he took to Twitter to reinvent himself a year or so ago maybe he would be just that little bit easier to stomach. One would imagine Barton will not again be invited to sit in on an editorial conference at The Guardian. Yes, that really happened. It’s also difficult to imagine him being invited back on to Newsnight by the BBC. Yes, that really happened too. There will be those who stand by him, of course. Even the most obvious fraud will manage to hoodwink a few. But looking at Barton’s face as he felled Aguero on Sunday, you could see how his mind really works. Contorted by a sneer, it was reminiscent of his look when he poleaxed Blackburn’s Morten Gamst Pedersen with a punch to the chest while playing for Newcastle last season. Back then his manager Chris Hughton said people were only making a fuss of the incident ‘because it’s Joey’. But that’s the point. It is always Joey. It always has been and it always will. A talented footballer - more talented than some recognise - has allowed his gifts to be obscured by lunacy and there is no reason to suggest he will change. On Sunday night Barton took to Twitter to apologise, feign indifference and then attempt to justify his actions. All at the same time. There was an expletive thrown in just for good measure. More pertinent, though, was this offering from earlier this year. ‘Why do people always want to solve any conflict with a fight?’ he tweeted. ‘As a pacifist I find it incredible.’ Keep talking Joey. Just don’t be surprised if the world stops listening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 He's an idiot. Always has been, always will be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Meltdown Barton is hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 The jug-eared crisp thief wading in now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Mint, hopefully we'll wake up to Joey throwing yet another wobbler at another footballer far superior than himself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandamninator Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 The Russell Crowe Show Theme Look's like we got a star for the Second Season... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ObiChrisKenobi Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Not our problem anymore. *Yao skipping down a meadow with money falling out his pockets* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Loven11 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Shame they didn't get relegated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Like OCK says, not our problem anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 What a loathesome creature he really is. And a terribly terribly average player to top it all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Fuking hell, at this rate he'll have to spend all summer Morris dancing in Ugg's with the over 70s while listening to Enya's greatest hits covered in whale spunk. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Was watching something the other day that said 2-3 percent of the populations are considered "psychopaths". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 What an idiot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Nice ban coming up. Glad hes not our dickhead to worry about anymore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Could be looking at a 10 game ban for those atntics...and to think QPR gave him a 4 year deal on a reported 60-a-week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Quoting The Smiths again this morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR15 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Changed man, eh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Quoting The Smiths again this morning. He's going to have a canny 'cunt hangover' in his late 30's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie418 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I'm no doubt in the minority here but Tevez should of walked as well, Barton obviously had no issue leaving the pitch as he took his armband off, but Tevez is a cheating fucker. If you watch the clip you can see Tevez trying to nut Barton and Barton gives a dig back with his elbow. all that extra was just a dead leg and quiff slap, fuck all man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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