Joey Barton

[Tb1981]

What you have to ask yourself is so you dislike them for being shit or female?
So jenas, hoddle, hinchliffe are all wank
But we don’t blame it in them being male

Joey was a good player but never great, so he shouldn’t be able to talk about players who could do things better than him

He is a big mouth twat with nothing in his CV to back it up.
He is a chauvinist bully from a family of racist murderers
Get him in the bin!

 

[Barcon]

Pundits and co-coms can all fuck off as far as I am concerned.
I'm not remotely interested in your opinion (take note Jim Beglin and Leon Osman).
The best commentary I have heard lately has been in the champions league where there is only one person and he is telling you who has the ball, a shot was deflected etc.
I always think back to when we used to listen on the radio and the commentators job was to paint a picture of what was happening on the pitch.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

What you have to ask yourself is so you dislike them for being shit or female?
So jenas, hoddle, hinchliffe are all wank
But we don’t blame it in them being male

Joey was a good player but never great, so he shouldn’t be able to talk about players who could do things better than him

He is a big mouth twat with nothing in his CV to back it up.
He is a chauvinist bully from a family of racist murderers
Get him in the bin!

We all know those 3 are shite. What should have happened is despite their playing experience they should have been binned because they are poor pundits.

What we have now is shite pundits who can't even comprehend playing at the elite level.

Everyone can talk about anything they want on social media. Barton was never good enough to be paid to discuss the big PL games or CL games on tv and rightly isn't called on as a pundit. If we were to list everyone's experience on PL games he is however much higher up the list than Alex Scott, Aluko or any other women pundits.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

What you have to ask yourself is so you dislike them for being shit or female?
So jenas, hoddle, hinchliffe are all wank
But we don’t blame it in them being male

Joey was a good player but never great, so he shouldn’t be able to talk about players who could do things better than him

He is a big mouth twat with nothing in his CV to back it up.
He is a chauvinist bully from a family of racist murderers
Get him in the bin!

I think Jenas is very articulate…

 

[Vienna_70]

I don’t, personally.

I’d much rather have pundits that have played the game at the level, or higher, than that on which they’re pundit-ing.

It’s the reason they’re normally from a successful club with a few winners medals in the cupboard at home and not ex-players who played in League One or Two (which is a far better level than the women’s super league).

No, it’s not.

The physicality and strength of League One/League Two players is obviously higher, as they’re men, but the skill levels are nowhere near the abilities of the players in the WSL.

 

[Vienna_70]

You implied that you had decided his comment was uncalled for because you've been told celebrities shouldn't punch down.

And yes, she is trying to build a career out of creating online content. And regardless of whether you think she's talking shite, it's just massively shitty of him to single her out because she's a woman. She's literally doing no harm to anyone so and doesn't deserve to ridiculed on social media by some arsehole trying to create a diversion from the fact he was trying play down a racially motivated murder committed by his brother last week. If younger audiences like that sort of thing then let them crack on.

There is an old saying:

If you haven’t anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

They're welcome to and perhaps they should. But for now people seem to be accepting of any old shite providing they have at least played at the highest level.



To be fair, it shouldn't need anyone to tell you that it's not ok for 41 year old man to publicly ridicule a young woman to his audience 2.8m people for simply doing her job. Not even sure what his point was anyway. She's not employed as a pundit and her content isn't aimed at his demographic. It's for kids.

Barton has 2.8 million followers on twatter?

 

[Vienna_70]

Agree 100% with him regarding commentary and punditry they have never played men's football. it would be like a weekend golfer commentating on the Ryder cup. Pretty sure that they're not used on the overseas broadcasts so I use my iptv

That’s a ridiculous analogy.

The women pundits have played the game at the highest level that they can.

 

[Tb1981]

Pretty obvious at this point that his views on this aren't really driven by a want for higher standards in punditry, it's just straight up misogyny. He's now essentially saying women shouldn't be in any workplace around men. And apparently when a married man has an affair with a woman, it's the woman rather than his own poor decisions that will end up costing him his marriage.

Doubly egregious of him to then try and bait female presenters into publicising his shitty podcast and accuse them of being too shy to debate him. He's thick as fuck.

He is a disgrace
Probably be defending Harvey Weinstein in his next tweet

I agree there are probably too many women in these roles ,too soon and it’s a feeling a bit forced in the men’s game.
But to then Generalise all women in football and equate it to ‘taking a tackle in the men’s game’ and then he keeps changing his argument as it is falling apart

He also somehow thinks that being from a racist, scum, women beating, violent family etc makes him ‘working class’

 

[Vienna_70]

Joey Barton is an absolute bellend but he's not far off here.

Presenters or main commentators I don't really care if they are male or female but as a pundit or on co-coms where you are meant to provide insight to the game, that needs to be for those who have played and have experience at the highest level.

You wouldn't see a conference player as a pundit in the PL so you shouldn't see a woman who played at a similar low standard on the panel.

As I said earlier, it’s not a similarly low standard as non-League football.

The WSL is the élite level in women’s football in this country.

For what it’s worth, I think Izzy Christensen - ex-Manchester City - is one of the best pundits around. She is far more insightful and eloquent than Spit the Scouse, gargoyle Gary or Jamie Catflapp.