Rugster Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 18 hours ago, Bairnardo said: Whats this? Has his stark warning about the incoming bigotry of other posters still not come to pass leaving him looking like a tremendously thick, bigoted arsehole? Hadn't checked for a while. I am shocked. The good thing (I know,) about Tedi is when he makes an arse of himself on a thread, such as he most certainly has here, you do not see him again on said thread for days. Wish he would do it on every thread to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 52 minutes ago, The Tedi said: Oh I am right here ! Anyway, It's good to see that my valid comment has discouraged other posters from making making bigoted posts about Rangers fans acceptance of a player based on them being 'brothers' or having a certain type of name Fucking creep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Daily Rcord Online http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-reject-joey-barton-hints-9772863 Rangers reject Joey Barton hints that Premiership table could have looked different if he had stayed at Ibrox The controversial midfielder was axed after just eight appearances for Gers but says things could have worked out differently with the Ibrox men now 27 points behind Celtic. Bottom of Form Top of Form Bottom of Form Joey Barton insists he can still look himself in the mirror after his explosive exit from Rangers - and hinted that the Scottish Premiership could look different if he had remained at Ibrox. The controversial midfielder lasted just eight games in Glasgow before he was frozen out following a furious row with boss Mark Warburton and team-mate Andy Halliday. The 34-year-old has since re-signed for Burnley after Gers took the decision to cancel his contract in November. Barton made his move north with the intention of helping Rangers wrestle the Ladbrokes Premiership title from Celtic. But it quickly turned sour after his training-ground bust-up two days after Gers' humiliating 5-1 thrashing by their Old Firm rivals in September. Since then the Hoops have romped 27 points clear, with Warburton's team now down to third after Saturday's draw with Ross County. Speaking to talkSPORT, Barton said he has no regrets: "I don't, really. I'm not really one for living in the past. This life is short. "We would all do things differently, but the only person we know who had the ability to travel back in time and change things was a fiction of Hollywood. "I was trying to win at Rangers. I went in there with the ability, knowledge and expertise on how to win - but it didn't work out. "That wasn't through any lack of desire or determination on my part. I look myself in the mirror in the morning and know I did everything I could possibly do to achieve those goals. "But ultimately I'm a footballer, I have a contract of employment and maybe the way I go about things isn't entirely in everybody's fashion. I can't and won't apologise for that. "I left an incredible environment at Burnley to walk out on the Premier League for less money to help somebody win a title, to put a football club back on the map. It just didn't work out. "The facts of the matter are that Rangers are 27 points behind Celtic. Things can always work out differently but that's nothing to do with me. "My focus at this time is on Burnley. Everything outside of that is outside of my control." Barton says he has too much respect for his former employers to divulge what really happened in the build-up to his exit. "I've got an enormous amount of respect for Rangers as a football club, the fans, the tradition - everything that it stands for. "I ain't going to come on the radio and have a go and air my dirty laundry in public about Rangers. "It's just not something I aspire to do. It's not something I'm going to do today, in two months, in 10 months or in two years. "I'm focused on Burnley. I've got N'Golo Kante and Chelsea on Sunday afternoon. I've got to use every bit of energy I've got trying to turn in a performance against arguably the best player in the league. "I can't focus on what's going on in Scotland - that's not my bag any more. What's happened's happened." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Aye. They'd probably be in the bottom half of the table if he hung about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Banned from football for 18 months. What a tit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, Aidan said: Banned from football for 18 months. What a tit. Bye Felicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, Aidan said: Banned from football for 18 months. What a tit. What were the odds on that happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 17 minutes ago, Zen Archer said: What were the odds on that happening? Longer than the odds on you making a shite pun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCelt67 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Oh Joseph, what has become of the Neymar of the Scottish Premiership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Orton Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 The downside is no doubt he will be hired as a pundit. Joseph the psuedo intellectual c**t Barton coming soon to a screen near you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Tynieness said: The downside is no doubt he will be hired as a pundit. Joseph the psuedo intellectual c**t Barton coming soon to a screen near you. He's banned from even being a pundit too. The FA couldn't enforce it if he went abroad but they'll be able to stop him from being on anyone who they have any sort of rights deal with so he won't be on Sky, BBC, ITV, Premier Sports or BT to give footballing feedback. I think he'll end up on Question Time and play for a career in politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 His statement: The FA have announced I am banned from all football for 18 months and fined £30,000 and costs for offences against The FA’s Betting Rules. I am very disappointed at the harshness of the sanction. The decision effectively forces me into an early retirement from playing football. To be clear from the outset here this is not match fixing and at no point in any of this is my integrity in question. I accept that I broke the rules governing professional footballers, but I do feel the penalty is heavier than it might be for other less controversial players. I have fought addiction to gambling and provided the FA with a medical report about my problem. I’m disappointed it wasn’t taken into proper consideration. I think if the FA is truly serious about tackling the culture of gambling in football, it needs to look at its own dependence on the gambling companies, their role in football and in sports broadcasting, rather than just blaming the players who place a bet. I am not alone in football in having a problem with gambling. I grew up in an environment where betting was and still is part of the culture. From as early as I can remember my family let me have my own pools coupon, and older members of the family would place bets for me on big races like the Grand National. To this day, I rarely compete at anything without there being something at stake. Whether that’s a round of golf with friends for a few pounds, or a game of darts in the training ground for who makes the tea, I love competing. I love winning. I am also addicted to that. It is also the case that professional football has long had a betting culture, and I have been in the sport all my adult life. Given the money in the game, and the explosion in betting on sport, I understand why the rules have been strengthened, and I also accept that I have been in breach of them. I accept too that the FA has to be seen to lead on this issue. But surely they need to accept there is a huge clash between their rules and the culture that surrounds the modern game, where anyone who watches follows football on TV or in the stadia is bombarded by marketing, advertising and sponsorship by betting companies, and where much of the coverage now, on Sky for example, is intertwined with the broadcasters’ own gambling interests. That all means this is not an easy environment in which to try to stop gambling, or even to encourage people within the sport that betting is wrong. It is like asking a recovering alcoholic to spend all his time in a pub or a brewery. If the FA is serious about tackling gambling I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry. I say that knowing that every time I pull on my team’s shirt, I am advertising a betting company. I say none of this to justify myself. But I do want to explain that sometimes these issues are more complicated than they seem. As for the scale of my football betting, since 2004, on a Betfair account held in my own name, registered at my home address and verified by my own passport, with full transparency, I have placed over 15,000 bets across a whole range of sports. Just over 1,200 were placed on football and subject to the charges against me. The average bet was just over £150, many were for only a few pounds. For the modern footballer, downtime and rest are important and I spend much of my time away from training in front of a TV screen, channel hopping across a range of sports, and betting on the outcome of games. I like watching sports and predicting the outcome. Set alongside what we are privileged to earn as footballers, my betting stakes are relatively small. Betting for me, is less about how much money I win or lose, and more about whether I can correctly predict the outcome of the game I’m watching. I hate losing more than I like winning, and this mindset has helped prevent me from placing big bets, for fear of losing big. Raised at the hearing was that between 2004 and 2011 I placed a handful of bets on my own team to lose matches. I accept of course that this is against the rules, for the obvious reason that a player with an additional financial stake in the game might seek to change the course of it for his own personal gain. However I’d like to offer some context. First, in every game I have played, I have given everything. I’m confident that anyone who has ever seen me play, or played with or against me, will confirm that to be the case. I am more aware than anyone that I have character issues that I struggle with, and my addictive personality is one of them, but I am a devoted and dedicated professional who has always given my all on the pitch. Second, on the few occasions where I placed a bet on my own team to lose, I was not involved in the match day squad for any of those games. I did not play. I was not even on the bench. I had no more ability to influence the outcome than had I been betting on darts, snooker, or a cricket match in the West Indies. I should add that on some of those occasions, my placing of the bet on my own team to lose was an expression of my anger and frustration at not being picked or being unable to play. I understand people will think that is childish and selfish and I cannot disagree with that. Third, I should point out that the last of these bets against my own team was six years ago (and in a reserve game), when I was going through a particularly troubled period, and when the FA were not nearly as hard on gambling as they are now. One thing I can state with absolute certainty – I have never placed a bet against my own team when in a position to influence the game, and I am pleased that in all of the interviews with the FA, and at the hearing, my integrity on that point has never been in question. I could not live with myself, nor face my team-mates or the fans of the clubs I played for, if they seriously thought I would bet on my team to lose a game whose outcome I could influence. The Commission that heard my case made clear in their reasons on a number of occasions that “there was no suggestion was involved in match fixing” and I am publishing a list of my bets because I want the full facts of my case to be known. A ban of 18 months is longer than several bans handed to players who played in matches where they bet for their team to lose and – unlike me – were found to have had an ability to influence the games. The only players to be banned for 12 months or longer bet against their own teams and played in the matches in which they placed those bets. Players who did not play in the matches they placed the bets in have never been banned for longer than 6 months. I feel the ban is excessive in this context. Throughout my career I am someone who has made mistakes and owned up to those mistakes and tried to learn from them. I intend to do that here. I accept that this is one more mess I got into because of my own behaviour. This episode has brought home to me that just as I had to face up to the need to get help to deal with alcohol abuse, and with anger, so now I need to get help for my issues with gambling, and I will do so. I want to thank the Burnley FC board, management, players and staff for their faith and understanding, and their belief that I would play for them, and play well, even with this hanging over me, and I want to thank the Burnley fans for the support they have given me throughout. They have been brilliant. Having consulted with my friends and lawyers, I have decided I will be appealing against the length of the ban. I hope that I shall be afforded a fair hearing by an independent Appeal Panel. If I am, we are confident that the sanction will be reduced to a fair one that both reflects the offences as well as the mitigating factors and the fact that there was nothing untoward or suspicious about the bets I made. I’m keen to be open about it, here are the thirty most pertinent bets as determined by the FA: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Orton Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, harry94 said: He's banned from even being a pundit too. The FA couldn't enforce it if he went abroad but they'll be able to stop him from being on anyone who they have any sort of rights deal with so he won't be on Sky, BBC, ITV, Premier Sports or BT to give footballing feedback. I think he'll end up on Question Time and play for a career in politics. Splendid, he is a total tit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stag Nation Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 "... at no point in any of this is my integrity in question. ... I accept that I broke the rules ..." Shurely shome contradiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Oh dear how sad never mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 His record is appalling. The ban should have been double. 3 wins out of 30? I'd expect a blind monkey to get better returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paralytic Critic Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I would say that looks like Joey Barton's playing days are over with...but hasn't that already been the case for the last 5 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I think it's ludicrous that someone can get 18 months for betting on matches while someone else gets a couple of years for being a drugs cheat or half a dozen games for trying to break an opponents leg, being a p***k shouldn't preclude anyone from receiving a punishment that befits the misdemeanour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 10 minutes ago, ayrmad said: I think it's ludicrous that someone can get 18 months for betting on matches while someone else gets a couple of years for being a drugs cheat or half a dozen games for trying to break an opponents leg, being a p***k shouldn't preclude anyone from receiving a punishment that befits the misdemeanour. He may an ex sevco player but if we're being honest he has a lot of previous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, bennett said: He may an ex sevco player but if we're being honest he has a lot of previous... He's had a punt, there was no attempt to fix or influence matches, as far as I'm concerned his previous should have minimal bearing on this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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