Joey Barton blasts former membership Man City for hiring feminine presenter

Joey Barton has sparked recent controversy by hitting out at his former membership Manchester City for having a feminine presenter for his or her males’s matches.

Barton posted a video on social media on Thursday morning of the presenter setting the scene forward of the staff’s Champions League conflict with RB Leipzig final week.

Having been irked by the 14-second clip for some cause, Barton wrote alongside it: ‘I imply take a look at the nonsense. You give them a f***ing inch… Was going to make use of the hashtag #Getthemout however little doubt it is going to be taken out of context…

‘Out the stadiums and off the concourse’s with the influencer f***ing nonsense. Men certainly, sufficient’s sufficient? Someone acquired to say one thing or it gained’t ever finish.’

He proceeded to publish one other message to focus on his view that ladies are usually not being given jobs in males’s soccer on advantage.

‘Of course a great deal of ex-top gamers can’t get a gig as a result of the TV Companies have quotas to fill and bins to tick,’ he added.

‘Their expertise thrown on the landfill to accommodate the ‘Woke’. Only manner they are going to change if it hits them within the pocket. 

‘That solely Happens When the lads determine to modify off. Millions mute the TV’s and that’s for a number of the Men. 

‘TV have to be going out the window should you get a double dose of XX on the comms staff to your subsequent large match.’

Following Barton’s rant, it has been confirmed the 41-year-old can be showing on Piers Morgan Uncensored tonight. 

Former England worldwide Lianne Sanderson has slammed Barton’s feedback.

She wrote on X: ‘I admire I’m all the time the voice for lots of issues. My telephone hasn’t stopped ringing however I cannot be bringing consideration to a degenerate that you just all know who I’m speaking about. 

‘I’m going to get pleasure from my day on the @SportSJA awards. Best factor can be to not give him air time!’

TNT Sports presenter Laura Woods additionally criticised Barton after he singled out the City feminine vlogger.

‘Usually keep away from these conversations as I don’t like including extra oxygen. But throwing younger vloggers to the wolves is incorrect,’ she posted on X.

‘I began my profession vlogging & I’ve all the time acquired on with Joey. He additionally despatched me a beautiful good luck message for TNT in June. Does that make him a eunuch too?’

She added an extra publish shortly after that learn: ‘Joey’s entitled to his opinion. If he feels that strongly about ladies within the males’s sport he might ask for a personal dialog with the broadcasters & state his case.

‘These tweets solely encourage a pile on for the ladies getting on with their jobs. Or was that the intention?’

Barton’s posts confirmed him doubling down on his stance on ladies being concerned within the males’s sport after an astonishing set of messages that appeared on his X account on Wednesday evening.

The former Premier League midfielder – who’s at present unemployed after being sacked by Bristol Rovers in October – seemingly took offence to the variety of feminine presenters and commentators on Amazon Prime’s protection of the Premier League this week, and posted a sequence of sexist messages on X on Wednesday evening.

Some of the highly-experienced broadcasters who had been working included the likes of Eni Aluko, Siobhan Chamberlain, Gabby Logan and Robyn Cowen.

Barton first stated: ‘Women shouldn’t be speaking with any form of authority within the males’s sport. Come on. Let’s be severe.

‘It’s a totally completely different sport. If you don’t settle for that. We will all the time see issues in a different way. 

‘The ladies’s sport is flourishing. Fantastic to see. I can’t take a factor they are saying severe within the males’s enviornment #namaste.’

Just seven minutes later, he then added: ‘Any man who listens to Women commentary or co-comms wants their heads testing… #sticktoyourowngame.’

Barton’s posts come after he had beforehand thrown his assist behind the #HERGAMETOO initiative.

This is a marketing campaign which goals to battle in opposition to sexism in sport, with Barton posing with a promotional card for the trigger when he was Bristol Rovers supervisor. 

Back in October, he additionally generated controversy after sharing his obvious backing for former Newcastle and England supervisor Kevin Keegan’s feedback that he would not get pleasure from feminine footballers speaking about males’s soccer.

At a stay occasion in Bristol, Keegan had stated: ‘(I do not like) listening to girls speaking in regards to the England males’s staff on the match as a result of I don’t suppose it’s the identical expertise. I’ve an issue with that.’

In response to that, Barton had posted on X: ‘Kevin Keegan. Ballon D’or winner 1978. England supervisor. He’s bang on.’

His sexist remarks additionally come only a week after he appeared to downplay his brother Michael Barton’s function in a 2005 racially-motivated homicide as a ‘f***ing scrap’.

Barton was enjoying for Manchester City when Michael was convicted of murdering Anthony Walker, along with his brother serving 17 years of a life sentence for his half in killing the black 18-year-old in McGoldrick Park in Liverpool earlier than being launched from jail in September 2022.

Walker was returning dwelling along with his girlfriend Louisa Thompson and cousin Marcus Binns when Michael – accompanied by his cousin Paul Taylor – started hurling racist epithets at Walker, saying: ‘stroll, n*****, stroll’ because the trio handed by. 

The pair later stalked and ambushed Walker and Taylor drove an ice axe in his cranium which left {the teenager} brain-dead inside moments. 

Michael and Taylor fled to Amsterdam, however later returned to be charged along with his homicide, and later tried at Liverpool Crown Court.

Barton appeared to minimize the severity of his brother’s crime in promotional materials for his look on the podcast Anything Goes with James English which circulated on social media on Thursday. 

‘My brother misplaced 17 years of his life from 17,’ Barton stated. ‘Because his mate who was his cousin on the time thought it could be a unbelievable thought after they had been having a f***ing scrap to tug an ice axe out, and swing it into someone, and he is caught it into someone’s head.’

As the clip gained traction on social media platform X (previously Twitter) numerous customers highlighted the insensitivity of Barton’s description of racist assault that preceded Walker’s ambush and homicide a ‘scrap’, labelling his description as ‘disgusting’. 

A press release shared by the Anthony Walker Foundation with Mail Sport acknowledged that they thought-about the outline ‘factually inaccurate’ and ‘missing in any sensitivity given the intense nature of the incident’.