Joey Barton Defends Neil Lennon (Against Shearer)

Joey Barton has decided to remind Alan Shearer of a particular night at Filbert Street in 1998.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/14052...n-hits-sending.html?act=new-comment&res=ok#co

Barton is a complete loon but Alan Shearer ought to keep his opinions to himself as Barton is spot on on his Shearer comments.

 

I was at that game at Filbert Street - went there with my other half and a geordie girl I worked with and her boyfriend - they wouldn't have it, even given the TV replays, that Shearer had done it deliberately .... for me it was one of the most blatant acts of thuggery I'd seen on a football field ... Shearer was having a crap match getting nothing from our defenders (which included the wonderful Neil Lennon in his holding role) and his frustration just overboiled - he should have been man enough to admit it and apologise - I lost respect for him after that incident.

 

I was there as well. Couldnt believe the ref took no action. Absolutely hated and detested the ****er ever since.

 

What rankled even further with me was that (as I recall it at least) Matt Elliott got sent off for an elbow that caught Michael Owen in the face when we played Liverpool in that same season It wasn't an ariel challenge; merely Matt and MO running side by side for a ball and that Matt Elliott was so much taller that his pumping elbows happened to catch MO as they ran - straight red - Michael Owen saying afterwards that it was purely accidental but the ban still stood - the double standards of the FA are breathtaking.

 

Alan Shearer, 63 caps, 30 goals, MBE. Joey Barton, 1 cap, 0 goals, GBH.

 

I think you'll find that if Shearer had have done in the street what he did to Neil Lennon on the pitch he would have been done for GBH!

 

I agree about Shearer but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

http://mrjimmycorkhill.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-letter-to-joey-barton.html - says it all.

 

Thats a brilliant rant! but leave Nugent out of it

 

Just read it - Jimmy Corkhill -

Not quite sure why he had to drag David Nugent into it though.

By starting this thread, no way was I sticking up for Joey Barton. I was merely trying to point out the hypocracy of a certain Mr Shearer (who I think is roundly detested by most Leicester City fans anyway) and on that point at least, Joey Barton was right.

 

In fairness, Barton's hair is nicer, and he does wear "well better" shirts than Shearer too. I've been saying this for years.

 

I pissed myself when he tweeted that.

What a ****ing loser that man is.

All the papers have ripped him into shreds for trying to be intellectual. 'Well better shirts'


Hughes needs to get rid. He's an embarrassment to football, let alone QPR.

 

One rash stamp though isn't the same as Barton's string of offences, not that I'm condoning it.

 

The problem with the Shearer incident is that the FA completely bottled it - anybody but Shearer commiting that offence would have got a hefty ban - the fact he issued the 'pre-emptive' threat of not playing at Euro 1996 if he got banned and that the FA bent over and got metaphoricallly ---- ------ accordingly just made it even more laughable - although Neil Lennon's face probably wasn't that amused.

Barton empitomises most of what is wrong in society these days - he is a coward and a play-ground bully - he can dish it but can't take it .. as Carl Henry proved last season. The real hard men of the game, Tommy Smith, Ron Harris, Norman Hunter, Peter Storey, Steve Kember, Terry Hurlock and their ilk plus a couple of more recent 'characters' Pearce, Dicks and Harford would have had 'bad boy Joey' staining the tails of his 'well better' designer shirts at the mere thought of having to take the field against them ...... the FA will I hope, throw the book at him .. perhaps he can even read it ...

 

Shearer was always a dirty bastard as I remember...not saying he was as bad as Barton (no-one is), but certainly no angel.

 

What odds on him joining the band of repribates that Warnock will assemble?

 

Very long ones. Warnock blamed Barton for his sacking and Barton hit back telling him to shut up and no-one respected him etc.

 

Barton lost it though

What he did to Tevez was a red, what he did to Aguero was worth an asbo, another red for what he did with Kompany.

He shouldnt be allowed on a football pitch again.

His "i tried to take 1 with me" comments on twitter show what is wrong with the game. If you did that at your place of work you would be sacked and the police would get involved

But because it was on a football pitch and only witnessed by millions its not that big of a deal. Its mad

 

Aren't you signing El Hadj Diouf though? Warnock labelled him a sewer rat earlier this season..

 

They were only rumours, rumours which have gone very quiet lately. I suspect it was McKay trying to engineer a move for Diouf somewhere else.

 

Im sure its just because Im old but didnt I see
!) tevez fouled Barton first?
2)Tevez went down like a girl---and not a tough girl either?

The guy is a knob but so is Tevez but I hope Shearer has had an uncomfortable nights sleep because his stamp on Lennon was much much worse than anything we saw on Sunday