Originally Posted by
tony260674
This sort of stuff used to happen all the time in football but there were less cameras about back then. Ask Phil Crosby, Imre Varadi, Tommy Tynan and Archie gemmill. Read Stan Ternent's book, he talks in length about how he took Blackwell down, listen to the Undr the Cosh podcasts, its a physical sport with tensions running high. When they shook hands at the final whistle the Barnsley manager was obviously saying something to Barton, it appears to me that his mouth wrote cheques that he couldn't cash and Barton rearranged his teeth. Was it an unprovoked attack or a fight that Barton came out best in?