Barton assaults ITV’ punditry crew with a sick taunt about Eni Aluko

Joey Barton continued his taunts in opposition to feminine pundits by attacking ITV‘s crew for Crystal Palace‘s FA Cup third-round conflict in opposition to Everton with a sick taunt about Eni Aluko and commentator Lucy Ward. 

The former Man City and Newcastle midfielder has come underneath intense scrutiny in current weeks for his controversial views on girls working in males’s soccer – saying feminine pundits ‘should not be speaking with any authority’ within the enviornment.

Now he has taken goal at Aluko and Ward – who have been engaged on the 0-0 draw at Selhurst Park on Thursday night, as he made a sick taunt in regards to the pair – evaluating them to infamous serial killers Fred and Rose West.

Fred and Rose West have been a husband and spouse who dedicated at the very least 12 murders over the course of 20 years at their notorious residence in Gloucester. 

The pair have been collectively charged with 9 murders, with Fred – who dedicated suicide whereas on remand aged 53 in 1995 – was charged with an additional three. Rose was convicted of ten murders and sentenced to 10 life phrases and a complete life order. She is presently 70 years of age and is serving her sentence in New Hall Prison in Wakefield.     

Barton’s submit on X, replying to ITV’s submit of Aluko discussing Everton’s season, noticed him start by taking a swipe on the former Chelsea and England striker. 

‘How is she even speaking about males’s soccer. She cannot even kick a ball correctly,’ the submit learn.

He added: ‘Your protection of the sport EFC final night time, took it to a brand new low.

The last line of his submit mentioned: ‘Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, the Fred and Rose West of soccer commentary.’ 

Barton wasn’t carried out there as he posted one other message of abuse geared toward Aluko in response to her taking photographs at a goalkeeper in coaching.

‘Technically, that’s terrible,’ he mentioned. ‘She can’t transfer with out her legs rubbing collectively. You need to giggle. She’s 18 yds out and may’t attain the aim with no bounce! 

‘F***ing pathetic. Get them off the Men’s Football. Off the tele. Only there to tick packing containers. DEI is a load of shit. Affirmative motion. All off the again of the BLM/George Floyd nonsense. Cancel me, I’d don’t care anymore.’ 

The outspoken 41-year-old – identified for stubbing out a cigar within the eye of younger team-mate at a Christmas occasion – has savaged feminine pundits reminiscent of Alex Scott and Bianca Westwood in social media tirades throughout the final month. 

On Boxing Day Barton – who was jailed in 2008 for affray – took goal at Amazon Prime Video Sport for together with former Liverpool goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis as a pundit for his or her 2-0 win over Burnley, saying her inclusion was ‘nonsense’ and ‘tokenism’.

It shouldn’t be the primary time he has taken goal at a goalkeeper. 

He boasted that he would rating ‘100 out of 100 penalties’ in opposition to Mary Earps after she gained the Sports Personality of the Year Award earlier this month.

Barton additionally known as it ‘harmful’ for ladies to work at males’s golf equipment attributable to them ‘having full-blown affairs and costing individuals marriages’.

Barton even went on Piers Morgan Uncensored to double down on his feedback, explaining that he didn’t wish to be seen selling sexism, however that he was in opposition to ‘unqualified opinions’.

‘I do not wish to see sexism in soccer, but when we do not debate (the function of girls in soccer broadcasting) correctly, that is simply going to rise and rise, and damage the expertise of watching elite-level males’s soccer,’ Barton mentioned when requested by Morgan if the language of his social media posts had been intentionally inflammatory.

‘Everywhere you flip now, there’s an unqualified opinion pontificating in regards to the sport I like, and it is ruining my expertise – to gasoline this woke agenda, and it’ll enhance sexism massively, as a result of it must be a real meritocracy. We need to have people who find themselves certified to do these roles.’

‘There’s plenty of similarities between each sports activities, however the males’s recreation is performed at a very completely different pace, with a unique skillset wanted. For somebody to face there and say “I would have done this”, or “He’s made a mistake” – who don’t have any expertise of that…

‘It’s not only one or two, it (soccer broadcasting has) been taken over.

‘I do not wish to come throughout as sexist, I’ve received a beautiful spouse, fantastic daughter, grandmother.

‘We need it to be numerous and inclusive, but it surely’s received to be credible.’

It was Barton’s preliminary tweet that precipitated outrage, insisting he ‘could not take a factor they are saying severe’ if it is within the males’s enviornment. 

‘Women should not be speaking with any form of authority within the males’s recreation. Come on. Let’s be severe.

‘It’s a very completely different recreation. If you do not settle for that. We will all the time see issues in a different way.

‘The girls’s recreation is prospering. Fantastic to see. I can’t take a factor they are saying severe within the males’s enviornment.’

Barton’s posts come after he had beforehand thrown his help behind the #HERGAMETOO initiative – a marketing campaign which goals to battle in opposition to sexism in sport.

Barton posed 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 does not take pleasure in feminine footballers speaking about males’s soccer.

At a reside occasion in Bristol, Keegan had mentioned: ‘(I do not like) listening to women speaking in regards to the England males’s crew on the match as a result of I don’t assume 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.’