To be fair to him, that is nothing worse than what happens on every Football pitch in the world.
Difference between Barton and El-Abd is that whilst they can both be a bit twattish on pitch, El-Abd leaves it there.
Barton tends to flip open the nearest thesaurus and go on a twitter crusade instead (Or give a cringey interview and claim afterwards it was on purpose)...man's a tit.
I actually think Barton is amusing
I think had anyone other than Joey Barton done it and no body would be talking about it. Do you think that El Abd has 'serious anger management issues'?
i am outraged by two players who show a little personality on the pitch.
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