Oh well if you get a vibe from him then I'll take your word for it. I'd say he was a bully and a lot of that was down to his drinking when he was younger. Since that he's cleaned up his act off the pitch and lost his rag once on it. Bennett and Johnson kicked him from pillar to post for half an hour at Loftus Road and he didn't react to it even if his reputation got him sent off by a referee who didn't see anything anyway.
Almost all Rangers fans would like to distance themselves from these ridiculous comments. Watford is pretty much on his own on this one I can assure you.
Yes,I arrive at the same answer by a different route: 14 game ban reduced by 50% for the attack on Tevez.Agree on the entertainment BTW.
I thought it should have been treated as 3 red cards for violent conduct, if they hadn't been together he would have been banned for 15 games, 4 for the first (second of the season) then 5 and then 6 for the next two. Also this, by his own admission was three premeditated attacks to try and provoke a man city player into getting themselves sent off, if that had been in a club he'd have spent the night in the cells. If anyone else did that at their place of work they would be fired on the spot.
Can't believe QPR fans persist in thinking that Barton didn't deserve to get sent off for that headbutt on Johnson. Reminds me of Colin saying that Johnson "went to ground". Err... no he didn't, he touched his nose. Selective memory if ever I've seen it. Barton headbutted (or at least attempted to and got close) Johnson. Red card. Just like he attempted to headbutt Kompany and everyone said that merited a red card.
I saw it as two players going head to head, one of whom had just been quite badly fouled, and the other decided to pull his face away.
Christ on a bike some qpr fans must have been watching these matches in some parallel universe I don't remember seeing all these atrocious nasty tackles that the city players put in to provoke the plonker....
If QPR sign Owen and Hargreaves on top of renewing Dyers contract along with Barton you've got the makings of a really great episode of Casualty
Errr not really. It was never going to succeed- violent intent. Straight red card. Unless you plan on retrospectively changing the rules, I'm afraid Barton got his just desserts. The FA appeal system isn't great, but when it's a really blatantly bad decision (like one we had in the Championship), they do rescind.
