So some of you who delve into uk footie twitter will be aware that Joey "the cigar" Barton has gone all in on his mission to rid the men's game of female pundits and co-commentators. He's also got podcast to promote.
The recent FA Cup match between Palace and Everton had A female co commentator and a female pundit; (Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko respectively) as part of the team for the match. Joey compared them to Fred West and Rose West, (a mass murdered and his wife.)
https://x.com/GNev2/status/1743332860163952922?s=20
https://x.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743335074463170928?s=20
Anyway this is playing out in real time and i wonder how it ends for Joey. Cos we're not going to remove females (Pundits/Commentators) from the men's game and if Joey had half a working brain he'd know that that is for the best.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67897623
The recent FA Cup match between Palace and Everton had A female co commentator and a female pundit; (Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko respectively) as part of the team for the match. Joey compared them to Fred West and Rose West, (a mass murdered and his wife.)
Gary Neville called him out and Joey doubled down issuing some sort of thinly veiled threat to Neville.ITV has criticised "vindictive remarks" made by ex-footballer Joey Barton towards Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward.
Aluko was a pundit on ITV's coverage of the FA Cup third-round tie between Crystal Palace and Everton on Thursday, while Ward was the co-commentator.
Barton, 41, compared the pair to serial killers Fred and Rose West on X, formerly known as Twitter.
ITV said the former Manchester City and QPR player's comments were "contemptible and shameful".
In a statement on X, the broadcaster said: "For Joey Barton, an ex-professional player with a significant social media presence, to target two of our pundits, Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, with such vindictive remarks based on gender and to invoke the names of serial killers in doing so is clearly contemptible and shameful on his part.
https://x.com/GNev2/status/1743332860163952922?s=20
Well done ITV. It’s gone too far this and mentioning serial killers is quite simply incredible. My daughters have watched Salford City with me for 10 years and like to comment on football, my mum was kicked out of the football team ( boys in the 1960’s) and stopped playing due to mysogyny , my sister struggled for funding for her sport for years and my brother was mocked when he took over the England women’s team. I come from a family that has fought these issues for years and I’ve witnessed it first hand. All this does is just discourage and it’s not the way forward. It’s bloody hard work for Women to succeed in sport and media as it is without this stuff.![]()
https://x.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743335074463170928?s=20
If you read some of the comments on Twitter you'll see that Barton is attracting a lot of support from the kind of folk who have a Union Jack in their twitter handles. he's getting mucho support from little Englanders who not only hate women talking about men's football, but I imagine have issues with the current state of immigration - you know, blame the most unfortunate people for society's ills. It's never late state capitalism and war mongering and brexit and 13 years of Austerity no no no - it's always the immigrants. Joey is a See You etc...but he thinks he is a man of the people. Curious.Gary, please keep your head down or you will get emptied as well. I know they pay your wages and I don’t want to have to put you away. Worry about one of the other 3758 business things you’ve got going on. I’ll decide when it’s gone too far. Not you.
Anyway this is playing out in real time and i wonder how it ends for Joey. Cos we're not going to remove females (Pundits/Commentators) from the men's game and if Joey had half a working brain he'd know that that is for the best.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67897623
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