OzMike
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Let's hope a retrospective 3 game ban for the thug loses them the next 3 games..........(living in hope !)
No 'bite' about him at any point yesterday, just cowardice. Bite is when you go in for a 50/50 ball as hard as you can, confident you'll be stronger than your opposite number. He only ever bites when his opponent is helpless. My Mum's braverHaven't read the thread but have always liked his bite. However, disgusted with him yesterday, although we have had worse over the years.
Bored of Barton now.
I was annoyed when he didn't get booked for an early foul, but put it down to the referee giving him a warning. Then I was annoyed because he moaned and moaned and moaned on about something for the next ten minutes and didn't get booked, despite a crystal clear display of dissent. Then he committed two more fouls, and on each of those, the ref seemed to give him another warning. By this stage, I was fairly sure he'd must have had some sort of compromising pictures of Craig Pawson involving several lines of coke and a an array of exotic prostitutes.
Then came the stamp- my question on this is, if it was an accident as a result of trying to jump over him, Joey, why didn't you immediately apologise? Surely that's your instinctive reaction to accidentally hurting somebody? No, you accused him of play acting and wasting time.
The elbow seems fairly clear cut as well, though I can't for the life of me see what it was that made contact with Barton's face that caused him to lie on the floor clutching it, as no part of Kayal's body was anywhere near his beautiful little features. Hold on, Joey- wasn't it you who said it's a contact sport?
I'm pissed off with his obvious lie after the game (the "accidental" bullshit, which clearly isn't true in the case of the stamp at least). Man up, face your responsibilities and admit it, Joey. Kayal was streets ahead of you in that game, and you couldn't deal with it, so you resorted to Bad Old Joey as you always do when things aren't going your way.
Hughton hasn't condemned him because he's the nicest man in football, and he never criticises anybody. That's fair enough, and I quite admire him for that. He's probably keeping his feelings for himself. I don't need Chris Hughton to confirm what I saw, and Burnley fans certainly don't have any reason to use Hughton's words as validation for Barton's nasty, thuggish behaviour.
What a great game of football, by the way. High standard on display, we played some great stuff at times, just a shame their corners were consistently so good, and a real threat every time they got one. Bringing on Barnes for the (tap-in aside) ineffective Gray was a great move, as he won every aerial ball he contested, upping the corner count, and ultimately resulting in their equaliser. Not sure they really deserved the point on the balance of play, but equally we knew at the time of the game that Keane's first header was over the line so at least it means they can't moan about that.
I hope they put as much effort in against Boro when they play them anyway.
Bored of Barton now.
I was annoyed when he didn't get booked for an early foul, but put it down to the referee giving him a warning. Then I was annoyed because he moaned and moaned and moaned on about something for the next ten minutes and didn't get booked, despite a crystal clear display of dissent. Then he committed two more fouls, and on each of those, the ref seemed to give him another warning. By this stage, I was fairly sure he'd must have had some sort of compromising pictures of Craig Pawson involving several lines of coke and a an array of exotic prostitutes.
Then came the stamp- my question on this is, if it was an accident as a result of trying to jump over him, Joey, why didn't you immediately apologise? Surely that's your instinctive reaction to accidentally hurting somebody? No, you accused him of play acting and wasting time.
The elbow seems fairly clear cut as well, though I can't for the life of me see what it was that made contact with Barton's face that caused him to lie on the floor clutching it, as no part of Kayal's body was anywhere near his beautiful little features. Hold on, Joey- wasn't it you who said it's a contact sport?
I'm pissed off with his obvious lie after the game (the "accidental" bullshit, which clearly isn't true in the case of the stamp at least). Man up, face your responsibilities and admit it, Joey. Kayal was streets ahead of you in that game, and you couldn't deal with it, so you resorted to Bad Old Joey as you always do when things aren't going your way.
Hughton hasn't condemned him because he's the nicest man in football, and he never criticises anybody. That's fair enough, and I quite admire him for that. He's probably keeping his feelings for himself. I don't need Chris Hughton to confirm what I saw, and Burnley fans certainly don't have any reason to use Hughton's words as validation for Barton's nasty, thuggish behaviour.
What a great game of football, by the way. High standard on display, we played some great stuff at times, just a shame their corners were consistently so good, and a real threat every time they got one. Bringing on Barnes for the (tap-in aside) ineffective Gray was a great move, as he won every aerial ball he contested, upping the corner count, and ultimately resulting in their equaliser. Not sure they really deserved the point on the balance of play, but equally we knew at the time of the game that Keane's first header was over the line so at least it means they can't moan about that.
I hope they put as much effort in against Boro when they play them anyway.
It was Dych's reaction to the post match interview that gave the game away. His reply to 'should Barton have been red carded', was to not answer but lead on about Knockhaert's tackle in the first half. I bet my pension Dych told Barton to stop Kayal anyway possible during the half time talk, but to attempt to break his leg is below the pale. Chris Powell & Peter Beagrie just looked at each other in disbelief at his response. I just hope the FA have the balls to take action in retrospect, but I doubt it.
Like most footballers when they commit a nasty foul they pretend to be hurt as well to get sympathy from ref as to say he did me as well. He must have got a funny elbow, we know how that does hurt.The elbow seems fairly clear cut as well, though I can't for the life of me see what it was that made contact with Barton's face that caused him to lie on the floor clutching it, as no part of Kayal's body was anywhere near his beautiful little features.
It was far from calm.
My seat is behind the away team dugout and, finally, Hughton got a bit angry. Unfortunately he let Douche control all of the officials for most of the game. Every decision given against his clogging animals he was yelling and screaming at them. Every effing minute he had something to say to them.
Fecking horrible club-manager and fans stuck in a 70s mindset. Really hope they feck up and miss out on promotion-they are due a blip in form.
I don't. Hughton can stay the nicest man in football and still call a nasty and dangerous stamp what it is. He doesn't need to win a Mary Poppins award. Our club should complain and put pressure on the FA to ban Barton, which could affect our chances of promotion.Hughton hasn't condemned him because he's the nicest man in football, and he never criticises anybody. That's fair enough, and I quite admire him for that.
Who would you rather have in your team, Barton or Sidwell
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being 3 rows behind the away dugout
You could hear most things
Then you would have seen Hughton getting very animated and angry at Douche. Not often he leaves his technical area to confront opposing managers-yesterday was one of those days. He should have done more of it because Douche was taking the piss.
I don't. Hughton can stay the nicest man in football and still call a nasty and dangerous stamp what it is. He doesn't need to win a Mary Poppins award. Our club should complain and put pressure on the FA to ban Barton, which could affect our chances of promotion.
I am not very good with technology but I think we should put video clips on all sort of message boards and facebook accounts etc and u-tube it because he deserves it as it shows what a thug he is. However I still think vinny Jones is harder.
Danny murphy on talk sport at the moment, was talking about the Barton stamp and he was saying Barton was getting a tough game from kayal so he thought it was normal to give something back. I am most probably hearing it wrong but if you can get the podcast of him and Alan brazil, have a listen. Frustrating much. Was about half and hour ago from now.
I heard it as well. He sounded unsure, thought for a minute then said it was 'the championship, it's tough' or something like that and that Kayal had been giving him a tough time. Said the challenge was 'a bit naughty' but basically been blown up 'because it's Barton'. Got the sense he was in two minds but maybe he's a pal so didn't want to slag him off.