http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/20/newcastleunited.ukcrime

Good

It seems from the account that he has got off very lightly.

He's previously (allegedly) stubbed a lit cigar out in a youth team (!!!) player's eye, assaulted a 15 year old fan, beaten up a team mate so severely he suffered a detached retina (for which he's still to be sentenced) and in this case he's also said to have assaulted a 16 year old.

He's not only a thug but a coward as it would seem he has a penchant for assaulting children. Him being locked up is long overdue, it's just a pity it wasn't for longer. I can think of no other footballer more deserving of an extended stay in prison. As you say; "Good".

As a footballer, he's a massive underachiever. As a person, he's a fool.

That news has made a very boring day a bit brighter, couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

I for one would have been much happier to see Ashley Cole go to jail.

I for one would have been much happier to see Ashley Cole go to jail.

I know he's bad but its not quite criminal...:hihi:

With his track record for delinquency Barton must surely be a future England captain.

Good, the bloke is a thug.

He will be out in time for the start of the season

How many other thugs have been given the chances for redemption that he has had? And wasted. Rather difficult to feel any sympathy for his plight...

He will be out in time for the start of the season

Exactly. Three months at the outset.

I'd like to say that hopefully Newcastle will sack him (like that would ever happen!) but even if it did happen the sad thing is at least 10 clubs would pay him exactly the same wage, if not more, and probably offer him a couple of million for a signing on fee so he'd profit from it.

The Guys a knob but will be out in 3 months and with Keegan as his manager will be treated like an only child returning from war when he,s released

I'd like to say that hopefully Newcastle will sack him (like that would ever happen!) but even if it did happen the sad thing is at least 10 clubs would pay him exactly the same wage, if not more, and probably offer him a couple of million for a signing on fee so he'd profit from it.

Lee Hughes isn't doing badly. That said, time served; time done.

He'll do the stir. What grates to me is that the small amount of time he'll do will just be a chapter in a book. To some bugger who will really know what it's like could the statistic which hinders them from work.

Money goes to money?

I must say I am not surprised by Newcastle's decision to keep him. After all we did buy bloody Bowyer and Woodgate after the incident in Leeds. Wasn't Bellamy on charges too for violent behaviour whilst with us... We certainly seem to pick em.

It is difficult to know whether they are correct. Afterall, prison is supposed to be the punishment, so why punish again. Although, in many other professions he would be struck-off for violent behaviour... he really does need to get some treatment for this behaviour.
It certainly raises the nature/nurture argument too, if you look at his brother who murdered the young boy in Huyton, Merseyside. Maybe there is something very deep rooted in his psyche.

But we only have to look at the Judiciary for justice. The judge who was involved in a bribary bizarre love triangle has his job back.

I see this rent-a-thug was at it again on Sunday.

His dire side were receiving another thrashing, this time at the hands of a superior, long-established Premier League side, Liverpool. His team of overpaid underachievers will soon be playing at a level more suited to their frankly pathetic football and Mr Barton, in the team after a long-term injury decided they'd have a better chance without him by way of serving yet another ban.

When will the authorities, his employers, his TV pundit manager and his team mates see sense and ban this brain dead amoeba? Ban him for life, get this poison out of the game. Alonso ought to get a good lawyer and ensure he is arrested and charged with GBH.

What a sad, pathetic waste of space Barton is.

I see this rent-a-thug was at it again on Sunday.

When will the authorities, his employers, his TV pundit manager and his team mates see sense and ban this brain dead amoeba? Ban him for life, get this poison out of the game. Alonso ought to get a good lawyer and ensure he is arrested and charged with GBH.

What a sad, pathetic waste of space Barton is.

Alan Shearer has always struck me as someone with good morals - here's his chance to prove it. He certainly seems angry enough with Barton.

Barton will get off and will continue to pick up his handsome pay cheque. That much is certain.

Football, like many other industries, has no morals whatsoever, and is only interested in how much money it can bleed out of people who will continue to pay silly money to watch it.

Newcastle will never sack a player that some other club would be willing to pay millions of pounds for. As long as they see him as an investment, either in terms of monetary value or his contribution to the team, they will keep him and ignore the ethical issue as it will affect their profits if they sack him.

Sad but true.

If Shearer does get rid of Barton, some other prem club will only come along and throw more money at the fool.

Look at Lee Bowyer ... he managed it for years and now it looks like he's back in the prem with birmingham.

Football has no morals, it only is concerned about money, thats why Bowyer, Lee Hughes, Barton and the like will always be there

Alan Shearer has always struck me as someone with good morals
Tell that to all the players he elbowed, went in on late foot raised... Shearer was as nasty & cynical a footballer as you'll see he just got away with it because he was the Steven Gerrard of his generation.

Tell that to all the players he elbowed, went in on late foot raised... Shearer was as nasty & cynical a footballer as you'll see he just got away with it because he was the Steven Gerrard of his generation.

Or the same Shearer who stamped on Neil Lennon and threatened to not partake in the 98' World Cup if he was reprimended for it. Or his elbow against the Grimsby defender some years back?

Not saying he is complete bad egg but he isn't whiter then (black and) white either.

Seems to me Shearer is grandstanding about Barton's red to try and distract attention from his painfully obvious cluelessness as a manager.

so why don't they sell him for money to a club outside of the premier?
that way they can take an appropriate stance (i.e. he won't be playing for newcastle as a result of his actions), and they get the money from all these other clubs who will seemingly pay big bucks for him.

so why don't they sell him for money to a club outside of the premier?
that way they can take an appropriate stance (i.e. he won't be playing for newcastle as a result of his actions), and they get the money from all these other clubs who will seemingly pay big bucks for him.

The problem is lower league clubs can't afford him, foreign clubs have heard enough about him to leave well alone and the only place where newcastle will be able to get his stupidly inflated price is the premiership.

I can see him going to one of the relegation scrappers like stoke, sunderland etc or to one of the promoted clubs from the championship. Can't see Wolves going for him tho, not big Micks style. I can however imagine him in a
Birmingham shirt. Imagine that, Barton and Bowyer in the same side :suspect:

I can see him going to one of the relegation scrappers like stoke, sunderland etc or to one of the promoted clubs from the championship. Can't see Wolves going for him tho, not big Micks style. I can however imagine him in a
Birmingham shirt. Imagine that, Barton and Bowyer in the same side :suspect:

Barton has had so many 'last chances' now it has almost become laughable. His problem appears to be an inherent short fuse and a violent predisposition which a series of new managers naively think they temper. Anyone signing him next year should do so with extreme caution on a pay as you play basis, as indeed should be the case for any player whose disciplinary or injury record means they miss more games than they play.

Joey Barton is an example of someone who, no matter how many chances you give to them, they let you down again and again.