Joey Barton on BBC tonight

[El Presidente]

Our Joey is on both Radio 5 live and Inside Sport on BBC1. If you want to hear an interview that is 1,000 light years away from the usual bland non-commital platitudes that footballers come out with, then tune in.

I appreciate that he polarises opinion, but there is no fence sitting when it comes to JB.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Yes, he's a sort of cross between that South African 'No offence' woman on the Fast Show, and Fred 'I say what I like, and I like what I bloody well say' Trueman.

 

[Easy 10]

Barton brands the Newcastle fans "vicious".

This from the guy who stubbed a cigar out in someones eye, beat up a 15 year old, and is in court next year on a GBH charge against a former team mate.

Gained a modicum of kudos for pissing off Lampard I suppose, but he's still clearly something of a prick.

 

[che]

Barton is scum.His behaviour is not normal.He can be lucky that he is a football player otherwise.........

 

[perseus]

Just turned Radio Five off. Walk away.

 

[El Presidente]

He is not all bad, some of his behaviour is indefensible, but there is more to him than that.

 

[liverpool_one]

He is not all bad, some of his behaviour is indefensible, but there is more to him than that.

joey barton is a thug, comes from a thug racist family, and has a brother in jail for murdering a black teenager in liverpool.

enough said

 

[El Presidente]

joey barton is a thug, comes from a thug racist family, and has a brother in jail for murdering a black teenager in liverpool.

enough said

By scouse standards that makes him quite respectable then.

 

[liverpool_one]

ha ha ha f***ing comedian inbred fuckwit

 

[El Presidente]

ha ha ha f***ing comedian inbred fuckwit

Calm down Gaz

 

[Sainsburys Seagull]

Barton is a twat of the highest order, wont be long till he joins his brother inside!.......

 

[liverpool_one]

Calm down Gaz

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

He is not all bad, some of his behaviour is indefensible, but there is more to him than that.

I agree with Pres here. Whenever he is interviewed he speaks his mind which is no bad thing when every other gives the same towing the club line interview. I've seen him a few times on Soccer Am and the likes and taken on those apperances he seems quite likeable and a guy who loves what he does. I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him though.

 

[Skaville]

I heard some of the interview and found his candidness somewhat refreshing.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I agree with Pres here. Whenever he is interviewed he speaks his mind which is no bad thing when every other gives the same towing the club line interview. I've seen him a few times on Soccer Am and the likes and taken on those apperances he seems quite likeable and a guy who loves what he does. I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him though.

Some of his relations are indescribably atrocious

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/...objectid=16430989&siteid=50061-name_page.html

TEENAGER Michael Barton was today convicted of murdering black student Anthony Walker.

Barton, the 17-year-old brother of Manchester City footballer Joey Barton, was unanimously convicted by a Liverpool crown court jury, which heard Anthony was the victim of a racist attack.

The 18-year-old was hit with an ice axe in the head in McGoldrick Park, Huyton, as he tried to walk away from Barton and his cousin Paul Taylor.

Jurors had heard how Barton had subjected Anthony and his cousin to a torrent of insults, in which he was called "******" and "coon".

Barton, of Boundary Road, Huyton, had denied murder.

Before the trial started Taylor, 20, of Elizabeth Road, Huyton, pleaded guilty to murdering A-level student Anthony.

Barton raised his head as the foreman announced his verdict. He gazed straight ahead with tears in his eyes.

Anthony's mother, Gee, clapped her hands over her mouth as Barton was declared guilty and clutched her locket with her son's picture. She then put her hands together and prayed.

On July 29, Anthony, who lived with his family in Mellor Close, Huyton, walked to a bus stop in nearby St John's Road with his white girlfriend Louise Thompson, 17, and his cousin Marcus Binns, 18, on July 29.

Racist taunts were shouted at him from Barton outside the Huyton Park pub, while Taylor was on his mobile phone.

Marcus, who at the time had a distinctive Afro hairstyle, remembered being called "microphone head" and "Michael Jackson".

Anthony Walker shouted back: "We're only waiting for a bus and then we're going", Marcus Binns made no response to the abuse and they decided to move on.

Sensing trouble, Anthony Walker and his friends started to walk to the next bus stop further down St John's Road towards Huyton village.

The three teenagers decided to take a short cut through McGoldrick Park because they were afraid they were being followed.

At the same time, Barton grabbed the mountaineering axe and jumped in Taylor's car, a Peugeot 406.

Taylor drove at speed to McGoldrick Park and lay in wait for Anthony and the others.

As the group passed some bushes, they were ambushed by Barton, Taylor and possibly other youths.

Louise and Marcus fled the scene, but Anthony was not so fortunate and was struck to the head with an axe, with such force that it was embedded in his skull.

The wide end of the axe was swung into Anthony's head and penetrated the brain tissue to a depth of between six and seven centimetres.

Anthony, a devout Christian, was taken to hospital where surgeons battled to remove the weapon.

He died a few hours later during the early hours of July 30.

The fatal blow was struck by Taylor, but the weapon was provided by Barton, who had been seen using it to vandalise the pub sign two days earlier.

After the axe attack, Taylor and Barton set about trying to destroy the evidence.

Barton tried to remove the axe as Anthony lay dying in the park entrance and when he failed he went to his house where the two killers took showers, and bagged up their clothes and shoes before burning them.

He took his passport and Taylor took his younger brother's and they arranged to pick up a car at the Brick Wall pub in Netherley Road.

Barton drove the Vauxhall Vectra they picked up to Dover and they boarded the 6am ferry from Dover to Calais, before driving on to Amsterdam.

During the trial Neil Flewitt QC, prosecuting, said: "Whilst they were abroad, Michael Barton spoke on the telephone to his brother, Joey Barton.

"Among other things, he said, 'Listen, I was there but I didn't kill him, it was Chomper, Chomper killed him.'

"Chomper is Paul Taylor's nickname."

Taylor and Barton remained abroad until August 3, when they were escorted back to Liverpool by their parents and officers from Merseyside Police.

Barton had claimed he did not take a weapon with him to McGoldrick Park and he was not present when the fatal blow was struck.

While Barton was on remand at Strangeways prison in Manchester, he wrote a number of letters, which were intercepted.

The court was told: "Although the content of those letters is of no particular significance, three of those letters concluded with the same short poem, 'One, two, three, now we're trippin' on an E/We jump upon the microphone with a shout going out to Pete Daley.'"

Mr Flewitt said this was Barton bragging about the murder to his friends in code.

 

[Les Biehn]

His thuggish behaviour does taint what I think is a fairly intelligent and honest individual. I actually like him but he definately has some issues. Mind you I probably would if I came from his family.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Having now seen the interview, I thought it was a PR disaster. Going in, I was slightly of the El Pres view that he probably had some redeeming features despite being a bit of a nutter.

But he came over as everything that is worst about Premier League footballers. A whining idiot in total self-denial about the things he's done wrong, and blaming everyone but himself for his reputation. It was one of those interviews where Gabby didn't have to say much, just let the guy hang himself.

He's also hugely overrated as a footballer, you won't find many City fans saying they're missing him this season.

 

[keaton]

The fact that he is so mouthy/forthright disguises the fact that he's a very average player and a prick. so he's done well there.

 

[bhaexpress]

Isn't Michael Barton his half brother ? Mind you Joey has had his moments but his comments of Newcastle fans are as has been said, not the usual sycophantic platitudes. Clearly they fans are not happy about the way the team is performing but they're another 'big club' who's fans think that success is their divine right.

Fair play to Barton I say.

 

[keaton]

Isn't Michael Barton his half brother ? Mind you Joey has had his moments but his comments of Newcastle fans are as has been said, not the usual sycophantic platitudes. Clearly they fans are not happy about the way the team is performing but they're another 'big club' who's fans think that success is their divine right.

Fair play to Barton I say.

But the fact he's done f*** all apart from try and get sent off in the few games he's played means he should probably shut up. I don't remember many people supporting El-Abds right to criticise he won fans for their attitude and at least he did face to face rather than a publicity raising interview. If he was an intelligent man he'd admit to his many failures, instead he says 'no-my-fault' rubbish like i was a little rusty so i studded someone in the knackers by accident