Joey Barton

[Barcon]

Surprised he didn't use the word, "Literally" as well.

 

[Keith Moncrieff]

Jaime Pollock

 

[homerdog]

Total air head.

That's a pleasant way of describing him - I can think of far more appropriate ones!

 

[jma]

Barton has plenty of form for being a balloon and the use of this word is ill advised. And a bit pathetic.

However, there are hundreds of similar idiots in English football who have routinely used the word in the same context, going back decades.

Probably not as many now but I can't imagine there's a British footballer over the last 50 years who hasn't heard the term used in a similar (stupid) context fairly regularly.

Barton is just daft enough to use it in the media in 2021.

I think he's an idiot for doing so but he's done far worse in the past.

 

[Tbilisi]

It was Jamie Pollock I believe.against Notts County. Got sent off for calling a decision "a holocaust of a decision"

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

 

[Revolver]

Not a fan of Barton whose not as clever as he thinks but I think calling him out here is a bit off. Nucleur holocaust is another context in which the word could be used.

 

[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.