Quote Originally Posted by Scum-Triumphant View Post
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
From what I?ve seen on X Barton gets plenty of stick and rightly so.
Is it not possible that this conversation is about Linekar so he?s getting attention?
What?s his history as a footballer got to do with it? Does this exempt him from criticism?
If you like him fair enough but others don?t agree.

Start a thread on Barton and people will give their views. It?s how it works.