Joey Barton Has No Right To Criticise Manchester City

15 Responses to “Joey Barton Has No Right To Criticise Manchester City”

1. Joe Bop Mcgreal
   on April 27th, 2007 2:46 pm

   true the little scumbag is a prick!

2. mr glum
   on April 27th, 2007 2:47 pm

   Must be a rag writing this garbage. Joey was spot on with his criticisms of the club. apart from the goalie and the back four Barton is the only player to have done anything at all to enhance his reputation as a player. What Barton said and what Dunne said before the Blackburn game cannot be disputed. City have signed cr@p players on big wages and things must change or it’s relegation next year.

3. sid
   on April 27th, 2007 4:13 pm

   You won’t find many City fans who don’t agree 100% with Joey’s comments.

4. MC
   on April 27th, 2007 5:03 pm

   [quote comment=”38168″]true the little scumbag is a prick![/quote]
   so take it u aint a city fan then, in which case i couldnt give a flying fuck about ur opinion of one of our players
   all barton has done has echoed the view of every city fan and probably mojority of senior players who care about the club. the lad wants to drive the club forward, and i hope his comments are ringing in the ears of the liars in the boardroom

5. mr cynical
   on April 27th, 2007 5:49 pm

   Barton’s comments were spot on; the sooner the club is rid of pearce, wardle, mckintosh, tueart, wigley, corradi, dabo, dickov, sinclair, sun and hamman, the sooner it will start looking to the future and stop clinging to the past. The writer’s character assasination isnt even very good-you forgot the fact that barton drove a car through a shop window when he was in the academy. Fact is barton may be a common street thug, but football and blair’s britain are overflowing with thugs and morons . What sets Barton apart and gives him the right to voice those comments is that, 1 - despite his limitations, he puts a shift in pretty much every game, which puts him in a very small club of (by my reckoning) three players and 2 - he was 100% right.

6. bluezool
   on April 27th, 2007 5:57 pm

   Barton is not a bastion of good taste and manners. He has a questionable temper and has transgressed in the past. He let us down when he fannied about before signing a contract (supposedly with a min fee release clause). However…

   1. He can criticise whoever he likes. I can’t hear too many disagreeing that the England “stars’” books are largely rubbish and premature.

   2. I am grateful he has spoken up and admitted that we’ve been cack all year and he wouldn’t watch it.

   3. He is a fine footballer. Not the best. Not the best even in his position, but very good. He knows when his team mates let us down.

   4. If we’re going to tarnish people permanently for past sins then our team would be a lot poorer. Should Dunne not say our players have been poor? (He was on the brink of being sacked in 2002 and is now a good centre back and captain). How about Weaver and his weight? Distin for not signing his contract at all has arguably caused the club more loss than Barton’s indiscretions.

   If the only footballers able to voice an opinion are England regulars who haven’t offended someone’s sensibilities then we’re all going to be bored to death by monosyllabic bling laden vacuous numpties. Cole, Ferdinand, Lampard et al.

   Barton has flaws but on this occasion I, for one, am pleased he has stated something which I believe in and the other players can no longer blissfully ignore.

7. ChristopherWreh=God
   on April 28th, 2007 2:38 pm

   Openly criticising your own teammates, staff and transfer policies is unprofessional and Joey Barton should be grateful he is still playing top flight football. He will never play for a blub better than Manchester City because he is a trouble maker, and whilst he may not be a bad player no club is going to pay £8mil+ for a potential loose cannon.

   It is not a defense for Man City fans to say “Oh yeh, but he’s right…everyone thinks it anyway, well done, get rid of Pearce etc etc”.

   Joey Barton is an employee of Manchester City not the Chairman or owner, however accurate his comments may or may not be he is in no position to make such accusations.

8. ATTT
   on April 28th, 2007 7:16 pm

   Nothing to do with the Man City situation, but I loved Lampard’s reation to Joey thinking he was bad at running at 6am in the morning.

   Lamps: “Joey mentioned that he was running at six in the morning in Dubai on holiday and then he wondered if me and Stevie G were doing the same. When I read that, I thought: ‘I was doing that when I was 11. That’s the difference.’”

9. Wiinning Post
   on April 29th, 2007 3:42 pm

   He should just leave and join everton in europe.

10. Anonymous
    on May 2nd, 2007 12:41 pm

    [quote comment=”38237″]Nothing to do with the Man City situation, but I loved Lampard’s reation to Joey thinking he was bad at running at 6am in the morning.

    Lamps: “Joey mentioned that he was running at six in the morning in Dubai on holiday and then he wondered if me and Stevie G were doing the same. When I read that, I thought: ‘I was doing that when I was 11. That’s the difference.’”[/quote]

    I thought Joeys comments were funnier at the hotel with England.
    Allegedly, Barton had gone over to sit with the rest of the players at breakfast, and Lampard saw his arse and got up to move tables, to which Barton shouted “It’s OK, I’m not going to nick your breakfast you fat twat!”, ending with the rest of the squad pissing their sides and Fat Fwankie going off in a huff.

    Allegedly…….

11. Andy
    on May 5th, 2007 1:13 pm

    Joey Barton may be a prick, but your strange 1950’s esque views on not allowing people their say until deemed worthy is very distressing.

12. Andy
    on May 5th, 2007 1:14 pm

    Also, who actually gives a shit if he pulls a sodding mooney? Oh whoopdy doo!

13. MikeyJ
    on May 5th, 2007 7:01 pm

    We’d take Barton off you if you hate him that much.

    He is a driving force every team needs, and although he might act like people have mentioned, a common street thug, he just wants to be successful on the pitch. His problems off the pitch are only excentuated due to his trouble of playing under a poor manager and with poor players on the pitch.

14. teddus
    on May 16th, 2007 9:10 pm

    Barton is a racist idiot. His brother is too. Didn’t Michael Barton put an ice pick is some black lad’s head cos he was the wrong colour? Is it just a coincidence that Dabo was black too? This racist bullshit starts at home. They should all be locked up and let the black lads in there have a good go at ‘em. OK he might be good footballer, but if you can’t control your temper, beahviour on and off-pitch, and have s tinking attiotude like his, I can’t see that anybody in their right mind would want the silly little prick on their team. JB is a red card waiting to happen.

15. kick out the scum
    on December 24th, 2007 1:57 pm

    The FA should ban blatantly racist cunts like Joey Barton. Pure coincidence that he kicked Dabo unconscious while he was down and then in Newcastle picks on (turkish) teammate Emre? If you stand by him you’re no better.

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