The Joseph Barton appreciation thread

Disgraced footballer Joey Barton 'jumps red light and drives down bus lane to avoid traffic queues'
Last updated at 11:58am on 05.09.08

Disgraced footballer Joey Barton jumped a red light and undertook dozens of cars in a bus lane while driving to meet a probation officer, it was claimed today.

The bad-tempered Newcastle United star, who was recently freed from prison for assaulting a teenager, was allegedly filmed passing queuing motorists in his silver Range Rover yesterday.

The claims come as the cocky 26-year-old is due to appear before the FA for a hearing today after he attacked former Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo.

The midfielder, who three years ago broke a pedestrian’s leg while driving, seemed to smugly roar past no fewer than 14 ‘No Car’ signs to avoid heavy queues in Newcastle city centre.

The star, whose probation terms require him to be on his best behaviour, then sped through a red light in his flashy Range Rover Sport, the Daily Mirror reported.

An outraged motorist who watched the disgusting display told the paper: ‘I couldn’t believe the arrogance.

‘Everyone else waited in the correct lane, but he went past us all. He deserves to lose his licence.

‘Newcastle have given him a second chance but it just shows he isn’t going to change – he still thinks he’s above the law.’

110% wrote:Here comes the role-model:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7685293.stm

and not even a hint of an appology for example to Dabo

Kimbo wrote:

110% wrote:Here comes the role-model:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7685293.stm

and not even a hint of an appology for example to Dabo

Maybe he's not sorry.

People seriously need to get over Joey Barton, it speaks volumes that on Saturday everyone will be banging on about him and not wife abuser Michael Chopra.

His return should spice up the derby anyway. Hopefully it's Butt that will get dropped for him.

He said he deserves "every bit of criticism that was labelled at me".

110% wrote:

Kimbo wrote:

110% wrote:Here comes the role-model:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7685293.stm

and not even a hint of an appology for example to Dabo

Maybe he's not sorry.

People seriously need to get over Joey Barton, it speaks volumes that on Saturday everyone will be banging on about him and not wife abuser Michael Chopra.

His return should spice up the derby anyway. Hopefully it's Butt that will get dropped for him.

He said he deserves "every bit of criticism that was labelled at me".

So then it's ok for us to critcise him as much as we want, he said it himself.

He wants to be a role-model and yet is not sorry for what he has done? So the role-model bit is what? Be an average player, beat people up, go to prison, get out, ask for sympathy or pity, make out what a hard life you'd had earning thousands as a EPL footballer, but don't appologise for any of the cuntish things you have done. Sounds like a great role-model for fey's kids, but what about the rest?

Kimbo wrote:

110% wrote:

Kimbo wrote:

110% wrote:Here comes the role-model:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7685293.stm

and not even a hint of an appology for example to Dabo

Maybe he's not sorry.

People seriously need to get over Joey Barton, it speaks volumes that on Saturday everyone will be banging on about him and not wife abuser Michael Chopra.

His return should spice up the derby anyway. Hopefully it's Butt that will get dropped for him.

He said he deserves "every bit of criticism that was labelled at me".

So then it's ok for us to critcise him as much as we want, he said it himself.

He wants to be a role-model and yet is not sorry for what he has done? So the role-model bit is what? Be an average player, beat people up, go to prison, get out, ask for sympathy or pity, make out what a hard life you'd had earning thousands as a EPL footballer, but don't appologise for any of the cuntish things you have done. Sounds like a great role-model for fey's kids, but what about the rest?

Apologies are empty gestures unless it is an accident, he meant what he did and everyone knows it. By role-model i suppose he means to other people that are off the rails like him, if he can turn it around then they can. It's not that shocking.

I brought the Chopra thing up once but no one cared, his initials aren't JB you see. It all happened at Sunderland, he got in gambling debts, beat up his wife and went to rehab.

christmasborocooper wrote:On it again.

Twitter war with Hamann. Saying that he's a coke head gambling addict whose lost all his money and left his wife and kids for some younger woman.

Luis wrote:So when people wind each other up on twitter it always ends in one of them calling the other all the names under the sun despite being a grown man and a father?

Did Hamann really wind him up? He gave his opinion on Barton very foolishly biting the hand that feeds him.

And then Barton comes out with all this crap about him not caring about football and only about family and that Hamann was a shocking professional. It isn't very professional to stub a cigarette out in a team-mate's eye or to kick a fellow pro on the field IMO, nor is mouthing off on twitter about your club or your manager - in fact it's pretty damn cowardly.

christmasborocooper wrote:I think someone with Hamann's issues talking about "respect" for a thing is probably the problem. Drinking and driving shows little respect for anyone....if it's true that he's shacked up with some young woman and left his wife and kids too, well there's not a lot of respect there either.

christmasborocooper wrote:To be fair, in the months prior Balotelli had been getting sent off for stupid reasons and stamping on people's heads...Rooney had just been underwhelmingly scoring goals.