Benched Barton courts controversy again (SEB??) - Possible FA Charge! HA HA!

[TartanMackem]

Originally Posted by DaveH

You must really rate Barton if you think the power of his mind can change a game, if he sat concentrating on the game. Perhaps his telekinetic powers could have kept moving the ball away from Sunderland.

Lets face it, if a player is on the bench then the game is out of their control. The place a player can make a difference is on the pitch. It is up to the manager to put the player there and up to the player to perform when given the chance. Sitting at the back of the dug out, there is nothing he can do, so why not have a bit of banter with the fans.

I remember standing in the main stand paddocks back in the day, where subs from both teams used to warm up. The football was dire back then, so the fans used to have some banter with both sets of subs. Made the game some days.

It's nothing to do with whether he can influence the game or not, it's about whether he cares at all about the club's plight. This isn't some naive longing that all players "love the club", it's simply a matter of professionalism. A professional in any line of work should have an ongoing concern for what he and his team are doing.

Saturday was an open window for all QPR fans to see that their club captain doesn't even have a passing interest in their club.

[Guinness Guzzler]

Originally Posted by TartanMackem

It's nothing to do with whether he can influence the game or not, it's about whether he cares at all about the club's plight. This isn't some naive longing that all players "love the club", it's simply a matter of professionalism. A professional in any line of work should have an ongoing concern for what he and his team are doing.

Saturday was an open window for all QPR fans to see that their club captain doesn't even have a passing interest in their club.

Exactly- concentrating on the match wont help them win, but they're in an important match desperate to get points and he's not even paying any attention to whats going on on the pitch, hes too busy making daft gestures to the home fans and carrying on before his side lose the match. Rightly or wrongly that'd piss me off if it was a Sunderland player, especially one who has never contributed anything of note to the club.

[partridge amongst the pig]

Originally Posted by BucketBiff

Can see why QPR fans hate him, but for some of our fans to get upset that he waved 5-1 at them is sad as fuck IMO.

TBF he's taken the bait hook, line and sinker and has managed to make himself look even more cretinuous and angry. Which is no mean feat.

I stood up and gave him some abuse on Saturday when he started coming out with the 5-1 bollocks but I'd never dream of reporting the little fucker for it. All part of the banter IMO.

[Statto Junkie]

Originally Posted by andy78

On the pitch he is a poor man's Seb Larsson, off the pitch he is a total cretin.

Love the fact he always c+p's famous quotes as if he is reciting them from memory, utter fuckwit.

Aye, like the brains-as-well-as-beauty quotes on Page 3 these days.

What a knacker.

[Clueless]

Originally Posted by BDI

Joey Barton demonstrated once again on Saturday he has a habit for attracting controversy, even when he has been dropped to the bench.

Barton, who captains QPR, lost his place in the side after a terrible performance against Liverpool in midweek and was not called upon as Mark Hughes's team lost 3-1 to Sunderland.

However, that did not stop him from being the subject of criticism.

The midfielder, who later insulted Sunderland fans on Twitter before declaring he was going to take a "sabbatical" from the site, could face FA action after involving himself with opposition fans.

Our video shows how Barton enjoyed the attention he received from home supporters when warming up, and it is reported that he could be in trouble after allegedly making gestures that referenced Newcastle's 5-1 victory over Sunderland in October 2010 - a game in which he played for the Black Cats' local rivals.

The Daily Mirror claims a Sunderland steward reported Barton's behaviour to stadium control at the Stadium of Light and that "the QPR bench were requested to ask him to stop inciting supporters."

Furthermore, Barton also managed to anger his own fans with his antics on the bench.

After QPR scored a late consolation, Hughes and his staff were still stony-faced given the club had no chance of overturning a defeat which left them in the relegation zone.

However, as you can see at the end of our video, Barton was spotted laughing and joking, which did not go down too well with some fans on Twitter.
Thomas Parsons tweeted: "See Joey Barton laughing on the bench then on MOTD while QPR are getting battered and he's been left out? #doesntcare"

Naka added: "BARTON embarrassing us all on twitter and sat laughing on the bench when we went 3 down. Enough"

There is absolutely no doubt that Barton is an obnoxious individual and a player who has been cynically and deliberately violent. It is my view that he should have been excluded from the game once his contract at Newcastle came to an end, with no other club being prepared to have him.

However, "... a Sunderland steward reported Barton's behaviour (making gestures that referenced Newcastle's 5-1 victory over Sunderland in October 2010) to stadium control at the Stadium of Light and that "the QPR bench were requested to ask him to stop inciting supporters" ..." Really ? That is the best thing that a steward (who is primarily responsible for contributing towards the management of off-the-field activities) has to do in the lead up to a game ? Again, really ?

Presumably this is because some fans complained to the steward about Barton's gestures (and one can only conclude that Barton must have the mime abilities of Marcel Marceau to convey an insult about a match played 17 months earlier with such devastating effect).

"Oh please, kind sir, make it stop ! Never have our finer sensibilities been so offended. My friend, Miss Smith has already fainted and Miss Jones is going to need long-term support to overcome the pschological trauma of what we have witnessed. Miss Brown has already indicated that she won't be able to get more than four expeletives into her every comment and she can normally be relied upon for at least six. I am also in need of the aid of a physician, as I am about to have a fit of the vapours. Please, for the love of all that is right and good, make it stop !"

At which point the complainant dropped her parasol, clasped her white cotton gloved hands before her eyes, allowed her bonnet to slip to a provocatively jaunty angle and fell into the arms of the steward. A flunkey was then dispatched to advise the QPR management to remind Mr Barton that he is an officer an a gentlemen and that he should curb his behaviour accordingly or prepare to give satisfaction at dawn, with either sword or pistol.

And as for QPR fans being offended by Barton 'laughing and joking' with others on the bench, this presumably is because the appropriate behaviour should have been for him to be snarling and screaming his team-mates onto greater efforts. Although this would have probably been provocatively offensive to the Sunderland fans. The poor lad just can't win, can he ?

I think football fans that complain about this sort of stuff are invariably looking to be offended. Barton has, throughout his career, regularly demonstrated that he is an idiot. Can you imagine how pleased he was to be advised that his antics had got under some Sunderland fans' skins ? Fans need to ignore his idiocy, otherwise he will be encouraged all the more.

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Surely the FA should be more interested in his twitter drivel than this banter?

[si73]

Sticks and stones ffs.

Notice he wasn't giving the SW corner any 'banter' following getting pelted last time.....so he's not that thick. The thick scouse cupid stunt!

[robin hood]

Once he retires it wouldnt suprise me at all if he becomes a depressed suicide case. One day he will find himself very lonely and in big trouble. I hope its slow.

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Originally Posted by robin hood

Once he retires it wouldnt suprise me at all if he becomes a depressed suicide case. One day he will find himself very lonely and in big trouble. I hope its slow.

I wouldn't wish it on him, but I think you are right. He desperately craves attention, so once it has moved on he'll struggle

[festa]

Originally Posted by frenchduke

I agree with that. We didn't need to do anything to make him look like a twat in that game, he did it all himself. as usual.

Is the correct answer.