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| Joey Barton loses his head- Twitter rant; Gordan Taylor | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 24 2012, 04:58 PM (258 Views) | |
| Homer | Oct 24 2012, 04:58 PM Post #1 |
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I am the King
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PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor has laughed off the Twitter rant by Joey Barton which called for him to resign and labelled him "a fat, festering old king". Joey Barton is never far from the headlines for his antics on and off the pitch ![]() Barton, currently on loan with Marseille, vented his fury at Taylor's handling of the recent racism issues in the game and explained his opposition to the possibility of a breakaway union specifically for black players. "My gut feeling is thats its a opportunistic move by some with hidden agendas to cease [seize] control for their own gains," Barton wrote. "Gordon Taylor, the, or one of the highest paid union bosses in the world, has got it too easy. I concur its time for him to go. Maybe the Union leader should be democratically voted for every few years by the union members? "Anything's better than breaking away. That should only be the final resort. Taylor's got too fat and greedy. And protects his cushy position but there are some good people within the PFA... "Taylor's like a fat, festering old king. Too drunk on power or wine to notice that his meal is a rotting corpse of maggots. Time to go GT!" However, Taylor insists that Barton is taking his revenge for his failure to support him after his sending off - and subsequent 11-match ban - when playing for Queens Park Rangers at Manchester City in the last game of the season. Indeed, Taylor told ESPN that he was confronted by Barton over the red card incident and told him that his "credibility" would have been compromised had he supported his actions on that day. "Perhaps he is right, I need to get to the gym more often, but I am pretty busy these days!" Taylor joked. "Joey can say what he likes - I've got a thick skin. The union put in time, effort and money in trying to help Joey, but we fell out over what he did at Manchester City. "It could have cost Manchester City the title, it could have cost QPR their status in the Premier League, but he also talked about how he tried to get Manchester City players sent off with him. He confronted me about my comments but I told him my credibility was at stake if I had tried to defend the indefensible. "We spent money on him because we tried to help him at the Sporting Chance Clinic with anger management, and people spent hours and hours with him to try to get him back on track. I will have to live with it. If he chooses to have a go at me, it's part of the job, but I can only stand up and be counted by what I do and say." |
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| AntMcfc | Oct 24 2012, 05:14 PM Post #2 |
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POTY
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He's not even funny anymore, just a bellend. |
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| Clancy | Oct 24 2012, 05:51 PM Post #3 |
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honest abe never lied
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He wasn't ever funny to me aside from a few remarks. |
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| Homer | Nov 16 2012, 04:58 AM Post #4 |
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Joey Barton has accused the FA of having a ‘vendetta’ against him and hit out at what he called the organisation’s ‘sad little men’. The midfielder took to Twitter to complain that Olympique Marseille’s first match after he joined on loan from QPR, a 3-1 win against Rennes on September 2, will not count towards his 12-match ban. Barton joined the French side on August 31 but said the FA ‘couldn’t be bothered’ to register the move until September 3 or 4, meaning the fixture against Rennes did not count towards his suspension for violent conduct in QPR’s defeat by Manchester City last season. Waiting game: Banned Barton has been restricted to playing in the Europa League with his new club Marseille How Baton's tweets unfolded on Thursday... Rangers, however, lost 3-1 at City on September 1, but it appears this fixture did not count towards Barton’s ban for ‘tarnishing the image of football’, either. The 30-year-old had been expecting to be eligible for Marseille’s trip to Bordeaux on Saturday and said it was a ‘ludicrous decision’. Barton wrote on Twitter: ‘So my 12 match ban is now a 13 match ban. You gotta love the English FA? Well, no actually you don't! ‘Ban has been extended as when I signed for Marseille on Friday 31st, the English FA where closed over the weekend and couldn't be bothered ...registering me until the 3/4th. So the game L'OM v Rennes couldn't count as one of my games suspended. ‘Its so ludicrous a decision, its .like they have some hidden agenda/vendetta against me? Oh, shit yeah I forgot, they actually do. 'Life's to good to ponder such things for to long. I know who you are. You know who you are. Would I swap with you? Nope. #sadlittlemen’. The FA are looking into Barton’s claims. But if the organisation received the midfielder’s registration after UEFA and FIFA’s office had closed for the weekend on August 31 they would have been powerless to do anything until September 3 at the earliest. |
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