Would love to have seen Kevin Muscat up against Barton
Joey Barton | Does a Schteve
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
FFS, Cantona got nine months for striking a fan in a one-off incident. But was that entirely the FA or did UEFA/FIFA get involved too?
Just the FA from memory , but did the FA not just endorse the ban that United themselves gave Eric or did they make it longer.
12 game ban
12 game ban and £75000 fine!
Didn't think he'd get banned for so long myself
Didn't think he'd get banned for so long myself
#helmet
Muscat was a coward a pretend hardman always trying to "Do" people from side on and behind with his two footed tackles! He was not a tough guy IMO!
A third of a season.A very adequate ban to the biggest cnut in English football
Agree with that. Hard men wouldn't be seen dead doing some of the things he's done. He's just a cowardly thug using his profession to get away with doing things that would get him a hiding if he tried it in real life.
Terry>Suarez>Tevez>Barton on the cuntishness scale
Too bad he didn't get the job done.. I'm with Joey in this..
I think QPR should sack him. He's an absolute liability and any club that takes him on is foolish. He's a dressing room destroyer.
Would they not have to pay out his contract if they sold him?! It'd be one hell of a financial hit! No idea whether they could find him in breach of his contract being banned for so long
Yeah, he's on something like £70k p/w and has at least a couple of years left, so you'd be looking at something like £8m to pay him off as he hasn't done enough to be sacked without compensation.
Deserved but I still don't see how Suarez got away with those incidents against Chelsea. Wish the FA would punish both cnuts.
Exactly! He's got the club over a barrel unless they can sue him for breach of contract and terminate it without paying his potential earnings
12 games not enough imo
The thug should be kicked out of Football
The thug should be kicked out of Football
The clubs that agree to ridiculous contracts that seem to be to the advantage of the player need looking at...surely Barton has done enough to lose his very lucrative contract.
It's the same when a shit manager gets sacked...why the feck should the club have to pay them for the remaining years of their contract.
Not enough? he pretty much did the same thing John Terry did to Sanchez.
12 games is plenty.
Yep. I don't have an ounce of sympathy for any club that decides to sign him though, much less hand him the armband.
I cant stand the guy. But I think thats quite harsh
Violent conduct sending off - 3 matches
Second ban of the season - 1 match
Violent conduct on Aguero - 4 matches
Violent conduct on Company - 4 matches
I could see another match for failing to leave the field of play in a timely manner.
He is lucky his coaches dragged him off the field and prevented him from confronting Ballotelli or he would be looking at another 4 matches. On the other hand, who wouldn't want to see those two nutters going at each other?
Not that I disagree with the length or anything... but how much was a ban for racism again??
Made it longer, United banned Eric for 6 months
Don't remember any violent conduct on Kompany
I think you have to look at the individual concerned
There's always something with Barton, slap him with a 6 month ban and see how he reacts to it on and off the pitch.
If that was the case the tosser might change his ways for the better.
That would be unfair though.
I think a 12 game ban for what he did is hefty and if that doesn't teach him a lesson, nothing will.
Fitting ban, but makes the 8 games Suarez got all the more a joke.
But how many times have we heard the same record with Barton "I've changed my ways, I'm a better man"
Eric got a 8 month ban (yes he did wrong) but Barton's no angel is he. Give it until Christmas once he's played a few games and it will be the same old story with him.
Those 12 matches will include Carling Cup games in which he would have been rested.
He nodded in his direction, but missed.
No, he's no angel, but don't compare his wrongdoings at the Etihad to Eric's kung-fu kick on a supporter.
Barton's a stupid bastard but it's not as if he threatened a fellow professionals career or anything. Or actually hurt anyone. Pantomime villain stuff. 12 matches is more than enough.
12 matches may be a bit of an exaggeration, but I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest.
Seems reasonable to me.
Cheers I could not remmeber
It looked like he tryied to head butt him , but it looked more like a nod towards him.
12 match ban is a massive blow to QPR , missing a 3rd of the season will affect them badly.
A fair ban thought he can have no complaints
Pardew on Barton...
Joey Barton:
“I offered Joey two contracts, one of which he agreed to, initially, so he was very close to staying at the back end of last year. But, when we sold Andy Carroll, he thought we were lacking ambition. You can’t assume anything in football.
“I’m not defending his actions at Manchester City (on the last day of the season) but he is a target for a lot of abuse. The trouble with Joey is that he gets upset about anything. Someone not clearing up the dog poo eats into Joey.
“His behaviour with me was impeccable, with one exception. When we played Leeds in a pre-season friendly and I didn’t make him captain he got angry and didn’t want to play. If he thinks he’s got justice then he’ll give you justice, though he has a warped sense of justice sometimes.
“Joey should serve his time and carry on playing for QPR. It won’t be the end of his career. He’ll fight to the bitter end because he truly loves football. He’s a great student of the game and he’s delved into its psychology.”
Joey Barton:
“I offered Joey two contracts, one of which he agreed to, initially, so he was very close to staying at the back end of last year. But, when we sold Andy Carroll, he thought we were lacking ambition. You can’t assume anything in football.
“I’m not defending his actions at Manchester City (on the last day of the season) but he is a target for a lot of abuse. The trouble with Joey is that he gets upset about anything. Someone not clearing up the dog poo eats into Joey.
“His behaviour with me was impeccable, with one exception. When we played Leeds in a pre-season friendly and I didn’t make him captain he got angry and didn’t want to play. If he thinks he’s got justice then he’ll give you justice, though he has a warped sense of justice sometimes.
“Joey should serve his time and carry on playing for QPR. It won’t be the end of his career. He’ll fight to the bitter end because he truly loves football. He’s a great student of the game and he’s delved into its psychology.”
He certainly puts the psycho into psychology.
A contract works both ways. Their job is to manage so you can't sack 'em without paying up if they've done that even the results are poor.It's the same when a shit manager gets sacked...why the feck should the club have to pay them for the remaining years of their contract.
I agree that surely Barton's done enough to be fecked off. But his argument would be 'you knew what the risks were when you signed the contract'.
When you have a player getting suspended for 8 months for missing a drug test, and another for kicking a racist fan, a 12-match suspension for a player's umpteenth on-field psychotic display is a joke. He should have been suspended for the entire season from all levels of play in England. This is how many times he's lost control during a game?