Barton gets plum job on but sport

either he's banned from anything football related or he's not.
I mean BT, not but!

 

What job, picking plums?

 

I thought you meant butt sport, which is popular on dogging channels

 

Butt Sport might be more appropriate

 

Stand up, can you clarify your post please.

 

The Score shows shows its teeth on BT in Premier League final day showdown with Jeff Stelling and the Sky boys

• The Premier League finale played host to battle of telly's two rolling score shows
• The Score on BT Sport went up against Sky's well-established Soccer Special
• The spiky interaction between the pundits on BT shows their format has legs

By Mark Webster For Mailonline
Published: 08:58 +10:00, 22 May 2017 | Updated: 08:58 +10:00, 22 May 2017
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Once Jose had been told by the Premier League his players couldn't have an extra lie in, it was full steam ahead for a traditional final day of Premier League football.
Which also meant telly's two rolling score shows could see off the season with a bang. Or with a bit of a thump, perhaps? Given it was pretty much only a heavily handicapped race for fourth that was keeping the afternoon alive? Well, as it turned out, not exactly.
It also signalled the last programme of the first season for BT Sport's The Score. A show that plays out on a big set. And has the big ask of trying to wrestle attention away for the granddaddy of the watch'n'talk about it format, Soccer Special.

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For their finale, BT came on air just fifteen minutes before kick off. And from that moment on, they didn't come up for breath. The Score, of course, has the same job to do as Soccer Saturday. So information as it happens is the bottom line. But there would be very little point in them trying to take on their well-oiled rival toe-to-toe.
So instead The Score's panel of bright young pundit talent Jermaine Jenas, former Arsenal and England star Kelly Smith OBE, the currently very much available Joey Barton, and the show's knockabout double act of Chris Sutton and Robbie Savage had been tasked with continuing to try and generate a different kind of chemistry from their Sky Sports opposition.

 

I caught five minutea of this, and thought Barton and Chris Sutton were going to have a full on bare knuckle fist fight about Koscielnys' sending off - Barton said it should've only been a yellow, and Sutton was having none of it, saying it was a disgraceful tackle......Joey didn't agree, and thought it lamentable that ex'pros were so in favour of seeing players sent off for 'a full blooded tackle"...

 

Durbar. JB was banned from football for 18 months. Surely that includes making millions out of being a football pundit.

 

I know he was banned but didn't know about his job on Score. I don't think his job has anything to do with the ban. Good luck to him.

 

If BT are pinning their hopes on Savage & Barton then whoever dreamed that one up needs psychiatric help.