(The Guardian)
The sooner this piece of shit is put out of sports, the better sports will be.
I'm just going to bring this all back from earlier posts on the blog (as well as further statements from the Guardian article and an accumulated list from the Wikipedia page) to make it understandable as to why Joey Barton should have been life-banned from the sport a long, long time before today.
- July 2004: Sparks a ten-man melee in a preseason friendly match with Doncaster Rovers.
- December 2004: Fined six weeks wages by Manchester City when he put out a lit cigar at their Christmas party... in the eye of one of his younger teammates!
- May 2005: Broke a Liverpool pedestrian's leg at 2 AM by tearing through town.
- Summer of 2005: Fined another 60,000 pounds (for 120,000 quid total) and sent home from a preseason tournament in Thailand for attacking another team's supporter, even though he was declared provoked. Forced to enter anger management by the club.
- September 30, 2006: Fined 2,000 pounds by the FA for mooning the opposing fans, bringing the sport into disrepute.
- May 2007: Fined 100,000 pounds (that's 220,000 total by the club!) and suspended by Manchester City and given a four-month suspended jail sentence for a training ground fight. This would result in his expulsion from the club, and, one year later, another 25,000 pound fine by the FA, and a twelve-match ban (six suspended) for his new team, Newcastle United.
- Later in 2007: Eventually gets six months in jail for a late night fight at a Liverpool nightclub. Serves 77 days after the 2007-2008 season.
- May 3, 2009: Is sent off with a direct red card in his first appearance in three months. The suspension ends his season, with Newcastle United threatened with relegation. Following the match, his coach and manager had a confrontation with him in the locker room, and the team suspended him for the remainder of the season as a result. Even though both believed Barton responsible for sending Newcastle United to relegation, he lasted two more seasons.
- November 10, 2010: Retroactively banned for three matches for violent conduct that the referees did not sanction in a match with Blackburn. His 2010 season was pockmarked with several additional incidents, including one which ended a stint of being considered to join Arsenal, joining Queens Park Rangers instead.
- May 13, 2012: The incident with Manchester City. In what I still believe, five years hence, was a match-fixing deliberate effort to get his team relegated and aid in the Hollywood ending of Manchester City's Premier League championship (in which, if true, he failed in the former and succeeded in the latter), was banned for 12 matches and fined 75,000 pounds from the FA, and additionally fined 500,000 pounds and stripped of the QPR captaincy for one of the most blatant "brain snaps" in English Premier League history. Sent off for elbowing Carlos Tevez, he then proceeds to commit at least three more sending-off offenses in one of the most blatant attempts to get another player sent off. This resulted in his loan to France (Marseilles, which would uphold the bans), and that resulted in QPR's relegation in 2013.
- May 6, 2013: Two-match suspended ban in France for an inappropriate remark, which was judged not homophobic. He called Thiago Silva an "overweight ladyboy" on his Twitter account.
- Inexplicably returning to QPR, he is sent off at least twice in the Championship, and is released from the team in 2015.
- He actually did have one year of quiet relevance with Burnley in the Championship.
- September 2016: Another training-ground conflict, this with Rangers, three-match ban, eventually fired from the team in November.
If anything, the 18 monther should've been in 2012! Anyone who saw this match and understood the circumstances (as I did) has to conclude that Barton was attempting to lose the match and get his team relegated. He commits four sending-off offenses in rapid succession, and probably should've gotten the match abandoned alone.
But that's not what he's getting the ban for. It's gambling.
Barton is admitted to, on several occasions between 2004 and 2011, to bet against his own team, as part of over 1,000 bets in violation of FA rules.
- Places three bets in a match he was in vs. Fulham. One was that a person would not score the first goal, and another was that he would. Neither did, so the first bet won. He also bet a much larger sum that his team, Manchester City, would win the match. They lost.
- Places five bets in matches his team was in with Newcastle United in 2008-2009 -- all were for Newcastle to win, all the bets lost.
- He played in a 2011 match with Newcastle against Stevenage in January. Betting rather large sums that Newcastle would win and lead at halftime, all bets lost.
- Places three bets with QPR, all to win, all lost -- one in 2011, two in 2014.
- While at Newcastle in 2008, he places multiple bets for Newcastle to lose to PSV in an August 6 pre-season match. The match ends a 2-2 draw and Barton does not play in the match.
- Eleven days later, bets Newcastle to lose it's opener at Manchester United. Match ends a 1-1 draw. Barton, again, does not play -- reminding the suspension for his actions leaving Manchester City was a year in coming yet.
- November 22, 2008: Bets his team to lose at Chelsea. Scoreless draw, one of four consecutive draws for Newcastle/
- November 27, 2010: Bets his team, on at least two bets, to lose to Chelsea. 1-1 draw.
- March 9, 2011: Bets against his own reserve side against Arsenal, and that bet loses.
How is this fucker not life-banned? Can someone PLEASE explain to me how this motherfucker ever would play soccer again, even at 36?
If I were running soccer, this guy never attends another match, at even a "park level"...
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