Joey Barton doubles down in assault on Lionesses star Mary Earps

Joey Barton has renewed his assault on England star Mary Earps, insisting he would rating ‘1,000 out of 1,000 penalties’ in opposition to the Lionesses goalkeeper in his newest tirade in opposition to ladies’s soccer.

The former Man City and Newcastle midfielder has been intensely criticised over the previous few months for a sequence of sexist jibes in opposition to ladies, who he claims ‘aren’t certified’ to speak about males’s soccer. 

His verbal assaults have additionally prolonged to the present gamers, with Earps an everyday goal.

Speaking on the most recent episode of his his Common Sense with Joey Barton podcast, the previous Premier League participant chastised Earp’s efficiency in Manchester United Women’s 3-1 defeat in opposition to Arsenal Women’s on Saturday.

‘I famously mentioned I’d have scored 100 out of 100 penalties in opposition to her and I need to admit I used to be fallacious,’ he mentioned.

‘I’ve to take that again. First time ever. World unique, I used to be fallacious. I’d even have scored 1,000 out of a 1,000 penalties with my left foot in opposition to her.’

Barton went on to say the England goalkeeper wouldn’t get ‘anyplace close to’ his penalties. 

‘She will not get close to any penalty,’ he mentioned.

‘She could not get out of the center of the aim for Beth Mead’s penalty [against Arsenal], so she’s acquired no a hope in hell of getting a glove to any of mine.

‘And they inform me that is the most effective lady goalkeeper on the earth.’

Earps, who was a part of England’s victorious Euros squad in 2022, helped the Lionesses attain Women’s World Cup ultimate final 12 months and was voted the most effective goalkeeper within the match.

The United star completed fifth within the voting for final 12 months’s ladies’s Ballon d’Or award and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in December.

Barton, who gained a solitary cap for England in comparison with Earps’ 47 for the Lionesses, initially congratulated her on the award.

But he quickly carried out a U-turn in a sequence of posts hitting out at a ‘tradition of snowflakes’, insisting Earps had ‘not gained a sausage’ final 12 months and that horse racing legend Frankie Dettori or snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan have been extra deserving of recognition.

Barton mentioned he watched Barcelona’s sport in opposition to Atletico Madrid on Sunday, however insisted the most effective groups in ladies’s soccer would battle to keep away from relegation within the National League.

‘Barcelona are the most effective ladies’s crew and the highest-paid [team in the world], however they would not win the Conference [as the National League was known until 2015],’ he mentioned

‘They would not keep up within the Conference. Any ladies’s crew I watch would not keep up within the Conference.’

Barton has been broadly condemned – together with by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak – for his assaults on feminine soccer pundits, which included evaluating ITV’s Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward to serial killers Fred and Rose West.

Last month, Britain’s sports activities minister Stuart Andrew vowed to place stress on social media firms within the wake of Barton’s ‘harmful and disgusting feedback’.

But Earps believes the sexist views espoused by the previous Bristol Rovers and Fleetwood Town supervisor are sadly ‘reflective of society‘.

In an interview with the March subject of Women’s Health UK journal, Earps, 30, backed feedback by Chelsea Women boss Emma Hayes – not directly addressing Barton’s remarks – that ladies’s soccer is ‘routinely used to coping with systemic misogyny.’

The Lionesses star mentioned: ‘Sport is a car for change, nevertheless it’s additionally a illustration of society.

‘The feedback on that [a video of Hayes speaking] are actually telling. This is not simply what one individual thinks, that is what individuals throughout the nation assume – in all probability on the earth.

‘And that is the largest disappointment to me.’