Talk:Joey Barton

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I have changed "stubbed out" to "poked" in the cigar incident. The reference says "stubbed a cigar", http://www.carling.com/football/manchester-city-fc/joey-barton.html says "poked" and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=P30&blog=yourview&xml=/sport/2006/02/02/uviewbarton.xml says "pushed".

I've also expanded on his sendings off, and removed "but hardly featured for the rest of the season, being injured or putting in below par performances as the club slipped from 8th to 15th" after the sentence on him signing a new contract in 2006. Joey only missed 7 league games in 2005-06; only David James and Darius Vassell played more. Chorleypie 21:07, 1 October 2006 (BST)

---I find the following statement,"He had two red cards in his first 120 games, both for two yellow cards" to be a little, well, odd. I don't see the significance of two reds in his first 120 games, neither were straight reds. I'm not saying he is innocent (in fact I know very little about Barton) but a breakdown of the yellows he has received would be a better representation of his on-field behaviour.Crx2gen 05:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

You're right. I put it in because a previous version talked specifically about one red card, and I wanted to point out that his record on the pitch isn't remarkably bad. I've taken it out now. Chorleypie 12:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

How about putting in a "Controversy" section to separate his footballing success to his controversies (mainly) off the field? Also more can be added such as his criticism of Gerrard and Lampard. 13:44, 05 February 2007 (BST)

[edit] "Personal Life"

Does anyone else think it's a bit unfair that all his "Personal Life" section discusses is his brother's murder conviction? I'm sure there's more to his personal life than just this. I should think that either more information should be added that actually relates to Joey Barton's personal life or the header should be renamed to something along the lines of "Family Issues" or "Brother's Murder Trial". Just a thought. Cricketseven 18:27, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I think the header is OK but I expect you're right that there's more to his personal life than this. Feel free to add something! While I'm on, I've deleted the 86.15.97.211 contribution "the media [neglected] to mention that he handed his shirt to a disabled Manchester City fan", because we have a BBC link which does mention this. (Chorleypie 08:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC))

I agree that it is unfair to discuss his half-brothers murder conviction. I think the most that should be stated is "Joey Barton is the half-brother of convicted murderer Michael Barton" Anybody who wishes to read further can click the internal link.