Joey Barton

Awwwwwww

Do hurty words and opinions you don’t agree with, upset you?

There there……

Barton should give up social media, but he'd miss
the attention he derives from the shite he spouts.

I guess he will be looking forward to England playing
Mexico in Mexico City in World Cup  as he is banned from USA.

Poor bloke. He's got Rose West suing him now for defamation of character.

Sageform

Very unpleasant man is well described I can’t think of anyone involved in sport to be as horrible as he is in my entire life that cage fighter from Ireland would be 2nd.

I agree with all four posts and half of the o.p.  We might not agree with his sentencing but he has hardly been forgiven or even admonished.  He’ll never change sadly.  We can only hope he breaches the suspended part then gets locked up.

at least he speaks his mind....
dont have to agree with everything,
if we did the world would be flat

Barton should have spent a lot more time in prison than he has done, for the several violent assaults he basically got away with.

A court case about childish insults online obviously should never happen at all.

the world is flat

Joey Barton was CLEARED over using the words Fred and Rosemary West, he was found guilty of superimpsoing their images, this was classed as grossly offensive.

Spitting Image was more offensive than a lot of what Barton has said or insinuated.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,"    Voltaire

"I was never ruined but twice – once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one." Voltaire.

Spitting image was a lampoon, Barton is offensive and
precisely targeted.

If he doesn't know the difference he should stay clear.

Harsh words from the geezer with the dead squirrel on his head and dressed like Santa

Dec 8, 2025 -- 3:34PM, Tiger Tiger wrote:

Joey Barton was CLEARED over using the words Fred and Rosemary West, he was found guilty of superimpsoing their images, this was classed as grossly offensive.Spitting Image was more offensive than a lot of what Barton has said or insinuated.

Wish I would have known that before I sent out the Christmas cards.

He called jeremy vine a paedophile.  Some on here think that should be allowed under the defence of free speech , I wonder why they would defend him?

Is Jeremy Vine suing?

Vine already sued, and Barton settled

Joey Barton to pay Jeremy Vine £75,000 after calling him a ‘bike nonce’
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Former footballer also issues public apology to presenter, who sued him over insults a court found to be defamatory

That'll teach him...

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You’re lying fullset, deliberately it would seem.  He did not call the narcissist Vine a paedophile.

The implication was by calling him a bike nonce he had called him, or implied
he was a peedo.

He could have argued that,.. but likely he was advised
legal fees would escalate quickly, and he'd be better
to settle as he had a good chance of losing the argument
in court and paying 2 sets of legal fees.

He could have argued that he hadn't intended
to call him a peedo,...

Agreed.  It is important that words are reproduced accurately however, not for added effect.  Imv.
I also feel distaste for Vine but not Barton’s view of his character or the description Barton used of him.
That is not however hate crime, it is personal opinion.

hes a nasty piece of work

Given he had previous he was probably lucky to get it suspended

It was a beautiful moment when he threw his shirt to the city fans and they threw it back

I had forgotten that.  Brilliant response - well done City fans.

Had I been Barton I would have argued pre court that
bike nonce was not calling him a peedo, and that it
was mocking his appearance whilst cycling that was
decidedly odd, apologised profusely for using the phrase
and promised to be more careful in future.

And reiterated that the phrase was an unfortunate
choice of words and had been misconstrued by Vine
through no fault of his own, and apologised again.

But... He coughed up

Barton is a nasty piece of work, and vine is a click bait
merchant. It's almost inevitable these clashes occur.

Barton is a very dislikeable individual. Had he not been a professional footballer then he’d have spent his life in and out of prison.

I read his book when it was first released. Pretty sure I liked it at the time and felt some empathy towards him. I think that’s all gone now. He’s a grown man now with years of experience behind him and he still can’t keep his emotions in check or his mouth shut. Probably feels that’s the way he should behave to keep his followers interested. A small percentage of those will be as unhinged as he is.

I'm guessing added substances would probably be involved here, just to turbo charge his personality defects..

This is the time for Christmas Parties and - where elite athletes are concerned - high jinks.

Yes, Joey Barton famously stubbed a lit cigar into the eye of his young Manchester City teammate, Jamie Tandy, at the club's Christmas party in December 2004, an incident that led to a huge fine and civil action from Tandy, who suffered psychiatric harm. The altercation, where Tandy tried to set Barton's shirt alight with a lighter, resulted in Barton being fined six weeks' wages and Tandy later suing for damages, winning £65,000

Tandy get charged with attempted murder?

According to Barton's biography- after the cigar jab - Joey said call it quits but the apprentice said No and Barton said "Fair enough, see you in court."

I've got book, but couldn't be bothered to read it

Hoping I'm not in it, lol.

Joey Barton is a bad character full stop.

The more we try to forget about him the more he has to try to keep himself in view. Set fire to his trousers on twitter or whatever it takes.

y-h-t-l. 

. He called him a nonce , but loyalhoncho says I'm lying when I said he called him a paedophile.
So what do you think is a nonce ?
I repeat my earlier question,,,why would you defend Barton.

He didn’t use the word paedophile.  Nor did he call him a nonce, he called him a biker nonce. I don’t defend Barton, so you’ve got it wrong three times now.

Barton had to pay Vine £75,000 in damages, but add in the costs and it's nearer £1M.

As it didn't get to court Barton paid 35k costs

His own legal fees likely were a couple of quid.

couple of quid legal fees!

He paid Vine £75,000 initially plus costs (which means Vine's legal costs of around £200,000), then an additional £35,000.

Vine himself said: "So Barton paid for the libel. He paid the costs. He paid interest on the costs. He paid the cost of losing a challenge on the costs. And he paid his own costs, which will be more than mine because he had fancier lawyers. He has lost at least half a million pounds."

Vines costs were reported as £35,000

Barton likely had a minimal session and was advised to settle.

Won't have cost him much, if at all.

Ah right my bad, there was another settlement, you are correct

“he has lost at least half a million pounds”!  Yeah Vineweevil, and you are still a spineless sweetie wife despised by how many?!

I'm tell you how much he will have paid because I studied libel, youhavetolaugh, but as someone said to someone on Twitter during Covid: "You are arguing about Immunology with Right Said Fred!"

Yep, I totally missed that part of story and caught either side
of it.

Seems to have been end of July, and my betfair activity
was minimal that week too, no photos on my phone
for those dates too... Feels like I was abducted by aliens.

Apologies again.

The U.K. has crazy libel laws.

The UK arrests about 12,000 people a year for hurty words on social media or even private whatsapp messages. Putin doesn't do that on that scale.

The libel laws are not as bad, just be able to prove what you say is true. You can say false stuff but there may be consequences. The costs are the real penalty.

More people arrested for hurty words than for attacking people with sticks and stones.

"Hurty words " can ruin lives .
You sound like typical bully .

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Mark Twain

Good old Sam.

I couldn't give a shít if you think I sound like a bully.

Your government released a horde of actual criminals, many of them violent, last year to make space to lock people up for social media posts and private messages. Why don't you cry about that?

I'm disappointed Mr Barton was given a custodial sentence even if it was not lengthy. I hope he'd bee asked to pay damages to the people he offended intentionally and repeatedly without provocation.

Mr Barton is a narcissist. He thinks he's superior to others. He also craves admiration - good or bad.

Fair enough, but nothing in your last sentence is a crime.  I watched this Eluki woman on the box the other day.  She’s nuts.
Boris Johnson, PPM and convicted criminal made similar disparaging “hurty word” racial insult about Muslim women.  He remained free from prosecution as I recall.
Minorities rule and the tail wags our dog as far as I am concerned.

Dont like him dont listen.


Its his gig,there will always be guardians of free speech.

Joey Barton arrested on suspicion of attacking man near Liverpool golf club

Joey Barton is due to appear in court charged with attacking a man near a golf club in Liverpool.

The former footballer was arrested after the incident outside Huyton and Prescot golf club at 9pm on Sunday.

Barton, 43, was one of two men detained by police as emergency services responded to reports a man had been seriously assaulted.

Merseyside police confirmed that Barton would appear in court later on Tuesday on suspicion of section 18 wounding with intent, a form of grievous bodily harm.
The force said the alleged victim was in a serious but stable condition in hospital being treated for severe injuries to his face and body.

Emergency services were called at about 9pm to reports of a man having been assaulted near the golf club.

Barton and another man, Gary O’Grady, 50, were remanded in custody to appear at Wirral magistrates court later on Tuesday.

Police officers remained at the scene on Tuesday morning carrying out fingertip searches behind a cordon. Officers could be seen checking neighbouring gardens while sniffer dogs were at the golf club, about eight miles east of Liverpool city centre.

One neighbour told the Liverpool Echo on Tuesday that they had seen a man on the floor “with blood on him” before they rang 999.
They said they saw police washing blood off the pavement on Monday: “When my partner went to work yesterday morning they had took the cordon down and they were washing the pavement. That’s why there’s sand all over the pavement from where they washed it.”



If he's found guilty they need to throw away the key

Gets worse, lol


Former England footballer and pundit Eni Aluko has been awarded more than £300,000 damages and legal costs after suing Joey Barton for libel over social media posts.

Pundit Aluko brought legal action against Barton over two posts he made in 2024 on social media site X.

Earlier the High Court heard the case had been stayed, meaning proceedings were halted and Barton was ordered to pay "substantial" damages and Aluko's legal costs.

Gervase de Wilde, for Aluko, said that in the two X posts Barton, from Huyton, had wrongly claimed she had "cynically sought to exploit her status as an alleged victim of racism and bullying", and that she was a hypocrite.

Barton - who managed Fleetwood Town and Bristol Rovers - did not attend the hearing, with Mr de Wilde telling the court that he was arrested on Monday and is currently being held in custody.