How come one of England's greatest ever goal scorers , Captains and someone who had a reputation of being a bit dull gets far more stick for his views that you can easily chose to ignore than 1 cap wonder Joey Barton who

Has called for the end of the monarchy
beaten up a taxi driver
Beat up a team mate
Put a cigar out in a youth player's eye
Beat up his wife including kicking her in the head
Beat up a man and a ****ager in the middle of the night in Liverpool
Hit the Barnsley Manager
Banned off Twitter for malicious posts
Banned from football for gambling