Joey Barton

[SheepRanger]

Bristol Rovers’ manager Joey Barton has been found not guilty at Sheffield Crown Court of assaulting former Barnsley coach Daniel Stendel in the tunnel at the end of a League One football match, when he was in charge of Fleetwood Town.

[KevC59]

Wonder if he's speaking with a West country accent now ?
Hope he's nailed it better than his French one

[3London]

Ball 46 tonight and we could give him a warm welcome back to Loftus Road in the 3rd round of the FA cup!

[Abseits]

Fair do's.... what goes on in the tunnel needs to stay in the tunnel. Jury clearly understands the basic protocols of football, plus a Jerman trying to get an English man done in an English court is completely out of order. Barton may well be a pillock but he's an English pillock - we can't lose sight of that.

[KevC59]

Football has saved Joey Barton, without it he would be doing a long stretch in the shovel for sure, that temper of his would have put him there

[Abseits]

I wonder now the legal business is out of the way if the League or FA will step in with their own sanctions? There would be a far lower test applied and they could find that on balance of probability he was responsible for assaulting a fellow manager and ban him or whatever. Maybe they already punished him, I can't remember but I'd suspect FA would have opted to do sweet FA and defer to the police/courts in the first instance.

[SheepRanger]

I wonder now the legal business is out of the way if the League or FA will step in with their own sanctions? There would be a far lower test applied and they could find that on balance of probability he was responsible for assaulting a fellow manager and ban him or whatever. Maybe they already punished him, I can't remember but I'd suspect FA would have opted to do sweet FA and defer to the police/courts in the first instance.

Isnt being manager of Bristol Rovers punishment enough?

With the noise around this case and a recent incident with his wife he'll never manage above L1. But he's still happy to work at the lower levels for very little pay I suspect.

[FurtiveFox]

Isn't actually being Joey Barton punishment enough?