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[Lucky Rathen]

Watch this video, what a fucking animal. The guy is on the floor defenceless and he's still laying into him.

Barton incidents I can recall:

1 - Stubbing a cigar out in a team-mate James Tandy's eye at the Man City Xmas night out.
2 - Spits in the face of a 15 year old Everton fan while on tour of Thailand with Man City.
3 - Assualts team mate Richard Dunne on same tour of Thailand, allegedly hits him with a golf club, and threatens another player with golf club.
4 - headbutts and knocks teammate Ousmane Dabo unconcious on the training ground. Punches him while he's unconscious. Causes this.
5 - Batters a guy outside McDonalds on a night out. Again punching the guy while he's on the ground unconscious. BBC NEWS | England | Barton is sentenced for assault

He just sounds like an absolute scumbag. Terrible role model.

[daveofficer]

barton's a thug and newcastle should bin him as soon as possible. i have no idea why he's been given a suspended sentence for the assault on dabo. gives out completely the wrong impression.

[Jesus.H.Christ]

I hate Joey Barton! Infact i hate him more than i hate Steven Gerrard, Michael Brown and John Terry combined.

I'm full of hate...

(and those incidents above are just his off-field antic, he's put in some horrible tackles. His 'challenge' on Dixon Etuhu last season was pretty bad)

[Alkaline]

The guy is a total headcase but maybe Dabo provoked him? Do we all think Zidane is a mindless thug as well?

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

The guy is a total headcase but maybe Dabo provoked him? Do we all think Zidane is a mindless thug as well?

i don't think you can compare one headbutt at the end of a career to a long list of assaults can you? but i do think all assaults should be prosecuted and that would include zidanes headbutt, so yes i do think he's a thug though not a mindless one.

[lovers_spit]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

The guy is a total headcase but maybe Dabo provoked him? Do we all think Zidane is a mindless thug as well?

Yeah but Zidane was a fiery player prone to bookings and the odd red card.

Barton has a track record of being a psycho on and off the pitch, throughout his career

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by lovers_spit

Yeah but Zidane was a fiery player prone to bookings and the odd red card.

Barton has a track record of being a psycho on and off the pitch, throughout his career

Physical assault is physical assault regardless.

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

i don't think you can compare one headbutt at the end of a career to a long list of assaults can you? but i do think all assaults should be prosecuted and that would include zidanes headbutt, so yes i do think he's a thug though not a mindless one.

That's hardly a long list of assaults is it.

Anyway rather than right him off completely without knowing the guy maybe it's worth seeing what his current stretch inside and the prospect of losing his job has done to him. Maybe he'll grow up a little, remember he's still young (and several of those incidents were quite a few years ago) and he might turn his life around.

He's still a strong defensive midfielder and has a great deal of footballing talent.

There have been many footballers across the years who have done as bad, Duncan Ferguson being a good example and prison sorted him out.

[Lucky Rathen]

According to the t'internet he's getting out next week. 6 weeks into a 6 month sentence, during which time he's been convicted of another serious assault, and he's getting out quarter of the way through his sentence. Without trying to sound too 'Daily Mail' about it, that's a piss take.

[-matthEw-]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

That's hardly a long list of assaults is it.

Anyway rather than right him off completely without knowing the guy maybe it's worth seeing what his current stretch inside and the prospect of losing his job has done to him. Maybe he'll grow up a little, remember he's still young (and several of those incidents were quite a few years ago) and he might turn his life around.

He's still a strong defensive midfielder and has a great deal of footballing talent.

There have been many footballers across the years who have done as bad, Duncan Ferguson being a good example and prison sorted him out.

If internet rumours are true (they rarely are) there have been PLENTY more Barton assaults to team mates and civilians that Man City managed to keep out of the press somehow and Newcastle have had to continue this trend. No evidence of this but it wouldn't suprise me.

His brother is a convicted murderer is he. His family are all scumbags of the highest order according to anyone with anything to say about them and Joey himself clearly has more than a fair share of screws loose.

To compare that to Zidane, a player who apart from portraying arrogance and the odd time when his temper would flare, conducted himself like a footballer should minus 1 incident, where he was clearly provoked by that odious cunt Materazzi is madness. Barton is a coward, a bully and a thick cunt and a supremely over rated footballer. Zidane is a genius with a bit of va va voom.