Joey Barton

[GaudinoMotors]

This is football not CERN.
It wasn't long ago Alan Pardew likened a tackle to being raped. They're mostly thick, ignorant and uneducated.

 

[Newman Noggs]

I thought it was Horlock at Bournemouth and Royle described it. Horlock walked aggressively towards the ref. Gary James?

Notts County v Manchester City 1998/99 – City Til I Die

 

[Tbilisi]

Notts County v Manchester City 1998/99 – City Til I Die

Wow, amazing how time fooks your memory.

Thats is correct for sure as the refs name I had in mind was Terry Heilbron.

 

[talkativesprout]

The distinction was drawn that he said "a holocaust" not "the holocaust" for the city game, but it was 20 odd years ago.

It is the same in this case, a player having a holocaust, he is trying to be clever but it doesn't really make sense, he just meant a disaster.

But a holocaust to my mind means long and drawn out, so certainly a distinction between disaster. The story should be, news outlet tries to demonise another human for using a word in the correct context that has a different connotation to a certain section of the community. (I know how arsey I sound, but i'm fed up to the back teeth with the intentional misunderstanding of a situation to illicit rage.

 

[Corky]

But a holocaust to my mind means long and drawn out, so certainly a distinction between disaster. The story should be, news outlet tries to demonise another human for using a word in the correct context that has a different connotation to a certain section of the community. (I know how arsey I sound, but i'm fed up to the back teeth with the intentional misunderstanding of a situation to illicit rage.

I said it doesn't make sense Barton using the word, it is not the same but that is what he meant:

"Someone gets in, does well for the game, then has a holocaust, a nightmare. You know, an absolute disaster."

 

[DMA's]

There is not much worse than encountering a stupid bloke who thinks he is smart

 

[Maly]

I thought it was Horlock at Bournemouth and Royle described it. Horlock walked aggressively towards the ref. Gary James?

Gary James was a ref? Multi talented guy!!

 

[cleavers]

Barton is just daft

Nailed it there.

 

[Mancity1980]

But a holocaust to my mind means long and drawn out, so certainly a distinction between disaster. The story should be, news outlet tries to demonise another human for using a word in the correct context that has a different connotation to a certain section of the community. (I know how arsey I sound, but i'm fed up to the back teeth with the intentional misunderstanding of a situation to illicit rage.

Holocaust literally translates from Ancient Greek as “whole” “burnt”, so it indicates mass causalities on a mass scale not necessarily drawn out. I think to avoid offending people you must clarify you are not referring to The Holocaust by preceding it with a word like nuclear.

This wouldn’t change the fact that Barton’s quote makes no sense and he would still be a nasty ill-educated baboon who pretends to be/thinks he’s clever.

 

[ninjamonkey]

He's a fucking pillock that's decided to rebrand himself as an intellectual, we probably all know a handful of similar people we went to school with that have done the same since leaving, I know I do. It was a truly moronic thing to say, not least because it doesn't work but I find it very difficult to see how people can genuinely get offended by it, there's no offence intended whatsoever it's simply somebody who isn't very bright trying to sound brighter. calls for him to lose his job because of that are mental.