Joey Barton calling Ian Cheeseman on GMR, 06/07

Prestwich_Blue said:
It wasn't a defeat actually. We'd just drawn 1-1 at Watford, which relegated them. I was at the game with (among others) Heidi Pickup, who was then MCIVTA editor. We were on the platform at Watford Junction when we got text messages and phone calls about this.

I'm pretty sure that Barton was put up to it by Paul Tyrrell, who was Press Officer at the time. Pearce was no more popular within the club than with the fans. CEO Mackintosh seemingly hated him and even John Wardle had run out of patience with him over him taking the England U-21 job when we were in a relegation fight.

Had we not won 2 of those 3 away games at Boro, Newcastle & Fulham, we'd have been relegated that season and the financial consequences would have probably been disastrous. Whether that was Mackintosh's prime concern or whether the two of them just hated each other is anyone's guess but I don't think there's any way Barton would have done that off his own bat.

Tyrrell was as subtle as a flying brick and I've no doubt this was done to pressure Wardle into sacking Pearce. I guess it worked but I doubt Pearce would have survived anyway.
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Tyrrell... What a prick that man is.
 
jimharri said:
Ah, those were the days! I suppose it was nice that Barton "cared", but it was a bit rich, him calling others shit. The likes of Zidane weren't having nightmares about the possibility of facing Barton one day, were they?
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I'm sure a knee height studs-up tackle would frighten any player tbh
 
jimharri said:
Are you seriously suggesting that being decent for us at that time, made him a decent player? Fucking hell, Douglas Bader would have looked decent in that team.
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He can’t have been that bad he played for England , he was better than the average footballer .
 
Jack74 said:
He can’t have been that bad he played for England , he was better than the average footballer .
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Being picked for England is no guarantee of quality. I'd guess that any number of posters on here, given 10 minutes, could come up with a dozen average (at best) players who won England caps.
 
Him and Distin were the stand out players.

Reminded of Barton by Jackie at the game yesterday.
 
RACHACE said:
Was that the season we scored 10 goals at home in the 19 games?
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It was bad, really bad.....I was 15-16 at the time and had been going to City since Maine Road, didn't have a seasonticket in those days.....got a couple of mates into City during that exact run of goalless matches, City were running a scheme where under 16s could get into 5 games for a fiver and all the matches I took my mates to were goalless. I'll always respect them for that
 
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