BBC Sport Main Headline: FA awaits Barton incident report

[GrandOldTeam]

Absolute joke that this is the main headline news....

The Football Association will await referee Steve Bennett's match report before deciding whether to take any action against Newcastle's Joey Barton.
Barton appeared to poke Gabriel Agbonlahor's face during the win over Aston Villa but escaped punishment.
"It will be a question of whether the referee saw it and dealt with it at the time," said an FA spokesman.
"If he didn't, the procedure would be to get the footage of the incident and ask the referee for his views."
The first half incident came after Barton, who is playing again after a ban and prison sentence, had been penalised for a foul but the poke on Agbonlahor went unpunished by Bennett.
The midfielder was also booked for a late second half challenge on Aston Villa defender Luke Young.
"I thought it was a foul against me, and I had a hold of the ball," Barton told the Newcastle Chronicle.
"We shook hands after the game and that's the way it is. It was all about nothing. Nothing has gone on, people are making a mountain out of a molehill."
And Newcastle have claimed that Barton is being unfairly treated.
Coach Chris Hughton said: "Any incident regarding Joey is going to be blown up twice as much as it's going to be with any other player.
"I wasn't aware of any incident with Joey at all."
Barton, who was released from jail in July after serving two months of a six-month sentence for assault and affray in Liverpool, was spoken to by Bennett after the incident.
The 26-year-old Newcastle player was banned for six games by the FA after he assaulted former Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo at the training ground.
Barton had previously admitted the charge of violent conduct and was fined £25,000 at a personal hearing but will be suspended for another six games if he steps out of line again in the future.
He must now wait to see if there is any further action taken by the FA over the incident against Villa but he has the backing of Hughton, who took the post-match press conference because manager Joe Kinnear had lost his voice.
"There wasn't anything said in the changing room afterwards, certainly not to my knowledge," added Hughton.
"All we can ask of Joey is to put in the performances he has done for us since he has been back. He is a very short way into his period back with us. All of those things, he is aware of."
Villa boss Martin O'Neill also played down the incident, although Agbonlahor had mentioned it.
He said: "That's for other people to make the decision. The referee and linesman, whatever they saw - or didn't see, as the case may be, that's up to them."

 

[Whitebootman]

Kid's done his time, the media will never let it go. They are never going to let the kid alone. Shame on them, who picks up on their wrongdoing? I won't ever condone what he did, but I was not much different than him at his age. I got a second chance and put things right in my life. The kid deserves no less, or what kind of society are we.

 

[TsarDiniyar]

knobhead media, the beeb are a joke

 

[Sharpys top lip]

Thing is.........

He's a bad dikkhead for doing it as he knows every camera is pointing at him. An the press is just waiting for him to [Poor language removed] up. It was a nothing incedent but it just shows, theirs no stoping him. He cant help himself.

He is a bad,bad w@nker!!

 

[Sqweeck]

I got a second chance and put things right in my life. The kid deserves no less, or what kind of society are we.

He's had a second chance, and a third and a fourth etc etc...

I'm with STL, he'll screw up again....gets what he deserves imo.

No sympathy here.

 

[Dom1878]

The media should be hounding him, aswell as the officials and the FA. He is a scumbag who has had about 3 'last chances' and he still acts like a cocky gangster on the pitch. He should never have played again, and hopefully he will be suspended again before too long.

 

[atrottel]

Sucker-punching "hard man" who has been indulged by football for too long. Anyone who doesn't think it is news that he can't control his temper after a prison sentence - and with a suspended ban and his career on the line - is the knobhead, not the media.

 

[Blue Ray]

Thing is.........

He's a bad dikkhead for doing it as he knows every camera is pointing at him. An the press is just waiting for him to [Poor language removed] up. It was a nothing incedent but it just shows, theirs no stoping him. He cant help himself.

He is a bad,bad w@nker!!

Sick of his antics and no sympathy from me. Yes it was a nothing incident if it was someone else doing it but it wasnt someone else. It was him again. He lives a very very privilaged lifestyle for playing football. All he needs to do is play but this is Joey Barton we're talking about here and its obvious he cant control himself. Newcastle are the last chance saloon for this knobhead and he's [Poor language removed] it up. Hard to see who'll have him if they get shut. I think he should be kicked out of the game. I know thats harsh but there it is.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

This isn't about how much of a scumbag Joey Barton is, its about the media blowing single incidents out of proposition time and time again just because it is Joey Barton - which bores the hell out of me.

It was a nothing incident.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm certainly no fan of the man but for prison to serve any kind of rehibilitating function society has to let those that are released attempt to live as normal a life as possible.

Lets not forget that we ourselves had a player not uncommon with jail time in Ferguson and surely we can all appreciate how his reputation caused many an unjust red card for him. Unless we insist on locking people up forever then we have to give them a chance upon their release.

 

[Sharpys top lip]

This isn't about how much of a scumbag Joey Barton is, its about the media blowing single incidents out of proposition time and time again just because it is Joey Barton - which bores the hell out of me.

It was a nothing incident.

I think you wrong danny! it is about him. The lad is a top idiot, he knows he's under scrutney an he still acts like a prick. You say the press are after him? Just think why? I agree with you that it really was a nothing incedent an probably happens 5 times every game. But people are watching him..........

An he still does it!! His one brain cell must rattle round really loanly in his head. Numpty!!

 

[atrottel]

This isn't about how much of a scumbag Joey Barton is, its about the media blowing single incidents out of proposition time and time again just because it is Joey Barton - which bores the hell out of me.

But surely there is some context here.

If Joey Yobo pushes someone in the face, then it's a mention in a report.

If Joey Barton pushes someone in the face, having a history of six or seven serious incidents of violence on and off the football field, having served a prison sentence, having a suspended ban over his head, and with serious questions about his career, and having also been all over the media himself saying that he has turned over a new leaf, then that's news.

It may be boring to you, but you can see that people's passions are aroused even in the thread here. And the media, for good or bad, report on what people want to read about (personally I could go for a ban on Kerry Katona).

(As an ex-journalist, I may be a bit biased about this...)

 

[Neiler]

I think theres a media witch hunt for Barton, its only a matter of time as hes likely to do something, but has to be said he has created a rod for his own back.

Would still have him at Goodison though.

 

[Sharpys top lip]

I think theres a media witch hunt for Barton, its only a matter of time as hes likely to do something, but has to be said he has created a rod for his own back.

Would still have him at Goodison though.

Christ sake mate, you must be joking!!

What the point of having someone who spends half their time on the bench suspended.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I think you wrong danny! it is about him. The lad is a top idiot, he knows he's under scrutney an he still acts like a prick. You say the press are after him? Just think why? I agree with you that it really was a nothing incedent an probably happens 5 times every game. But people are watching him..........

An he still does it!! His one brain cell must rattle round really loanly in his head. Numpty!!

Yeah I know, but am sick of reading about every time he farts.