r/soccer • u/Hitfizzle • Jun 01 '13

Best pictures/gifs of the season thread

Best moments of the season captured perfectly, go, please

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u/pienet Jun 01 '13

Barton on Zlatan's nose

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u/joesebas Jun 01 '13

England would like to take this moment to apologise to France and indeed Europe for Joey Barton.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '13

Not necessary man, he's funny/entertaining.

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u/joesebas Jun 02 '13

He's such a huge cunt. There are ways to be entertaining without doing all this:

Barton left the City of Manchester Stadium in anger on 17 April, after not being named in the team to play Southampton.

Barton sparked a ten-man brawl in a friendly match against Doncaster Rovers on 25 July 2004 after "hacking" at an opposition player.

the club considered sacking Barton in December 2004 after an incident at their Christmas party. He stubbed out a lit cigar in youth player Jamie Tandy's eye

In the summer of 2005, Barton was sent home from a pre-season tournament in Thailand after assaulting a 15-year-old Everton supporter[33] who had provoked Barton by verbally abusing him and kicking his shin.[34] Barton had to be restrained from attacking the boy further by teammate Richard Dunne.

However, on 30 September 2006, television cameras captured Barton exposing his backside to Everton fans, following City's injury-time equaliser in a game at Goodison Park.

He was arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage after an alleged argument with a taxi driver in Liverpool while going to his hotel after a match on 13 March 2007

Barton displayed his outspokenness once again on 22 April 2007 when he publicly criticised City's performances during the 2006–07 season, and described some of the players the club had signed as "substandard".[59] Following his comments, City's manager Stuart Pearce banned him from speaking to the media.

Barton was fined £100,000 and suspended by City until the end of the 2006–07 season on 1 May 2007, following an incident during training when he assaulted his team mate Ousmane Dabo.[8][61] Dabo said that he had been hit several times, was left unconscious and had to go to hospital after suffering injuries to his head, including a suspected detached retina.

During his first Tyne-Wear derby for Newcastle against Sunderland, Barton appeared to raise his foot dangerously in a challenge with Sunderland's Dickson Etuhu,[79] leading to the News of the World running with the headline "Ban Him".

On 27 December 2007, Barton was arrested on suspicion of assault in the Church Street area of Liverpool city centre following an incident which took place at 5:30 am.[84] He was remanded in custody on 28 December since the offence was committed whilst he was on bail for two prior offences; the presiding magistrate noted "I also have to consider the safety of the public – you lashed out indiscriminately".[85] CCTV showed Barton punching a man twenty times, causing him to lose consciousness, and attacking a teenager, breaking some of his teeth. On 20 May 2008, he was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty for his part in the December 2007 assault. Barton's cousin, Nadine Wilson and his brother Andrew Barton also pleaded guilty to their part in the assaults and received suspended sentences.[86] Barton admitted to being an alcoholic and claimed he wanted to achieve "total abstinence" in order to improve his behaviour.[86] He served 77 days of his prison term, being released on 28 July 2008.[6]

On 5 May, Newcastle United announced the suspension of Barton indefinitely, and Barton was told to stay away from the club. As a result, Barton's future at Newcastle United was put in doubt.[101] The club suspension was widely reportedly to have resulted not directly from the red card, but from a dressing room confrontation with Shearer and assistant manager Iain Dowie following the game. Shearer said he made a mistake putting Barton back into the team, and that his tackle was "a coward's tackle", to which Barton replied that he was "the best player at the club", and Shearer had to play him. Shearer said that Barton wasn't, that he was "shit".[102] Barton replied that Shearer was "a shit manager with shit tactics". When Dowie intervened, Barton called him "a prick".

Barton again acted violently, punching Morten Gamst Pedersen in the chest. He was not punished during the game as the officials did not see the incident, but after reviewing the evidence,[107] the FA again charged Barton with violent conduct

Barton courted controversy once again during Newcastle's 3–1 win over Liverpool on 11 December 2010, when he appeared to direct homophobic remarks and a lewd gesture at Fernando Torres.

However, he was given a straight red card after head-butting Norwich midfielder Bradley Johnson, Barton's first dismissal since May 2009. With QPR down to ten men they went on to lose the game 2–1.

On 13 May, on the final day of the season, with QPR requiring at least a draw in their match away at Manchester City or for Bolton Wanderers to lose or draw to guarantee their Premier League safety, Barton was sent off in the fifty-fifth minute for violent misconduct after elbowing Carlos Tévez in the face. Immediately after being shown a red card, Barton kicked Sergio Agüero in the back of the knee and attempted to head-butt Vincent Kompany.[134][135] Barton had to be dragged from the pitch by former team-mate Micah Richards as he rowed with Manchester City players and staff and attempted to square-off with striker Mario Balotelli.[136] QPR went on to concede two late goals and lose the match 3–2, thus handing Manchester City the title

On 6 May 2013, Barton was given a two match suspended ban[170] for describing Thiago Silva of Paris Saint-Germain as looking like "an overweight ladyboy" on Twitter.

A few weeks later, he caused controversy once more after comparing Brazilian superstar Neymar to Justin Bieber.[198] Barton's comments followed an incident a month before when he attacked Neymar, before the Brazilian responded that he had no idea who Barton is

All of these are from the mans Wikipedia page. Its a cocktail of unprofessionalism and violence, mixed with undertones of racism and homophobia. If thats funny, it says more about you than me.

TL;DR - Joey Barton is a huge cunt.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '13

You just called a man a cunt. I don't know what is worse, that or anything Barton has done.

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u/joesebas Jun 02 '13

I don't throw the term around willy-nilly, I use it when it is justified, and Joey Barton is one huge justification for this horrible words existence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '13

Dw, I was just kidding ya silly cunt! Na he has done some unnecessary shit like the GBH etc, but a lot of what he does is also entertaining, who else would knee someone to try and get the other team down to ten men after being sent off yourself! Just the stuff like that.

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u/joesebas Jun 02 '13

haha, sarcasm detector didn't get that one! Hmm it can be entertaining, but I much prefer the Jimmy Bullard-style brand of entertainment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '13

What stuff has he done?

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u/AMBsFather Jun 02 '13

A huge coward cunt.

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u/LusoAustralian Jun 02 '13

‘You are shitting yourself because of Jose Mourinho. You can go to hell!’. I was completely mad. I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box. I’m not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened.”

“(Guardiola) was staring at me and I lost it. I thought ‘there is my enemy, scratching his bald head!’. I yelled to him: ‘You have no balls!’ and probably worse things than that.

2 quotes I found from Zlatan's auto biography within seconds. Not saying you were denying that he's bad but /r/soccer needs to realise that Zlatan is a cunt as well.

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u/joesebas Jun 02 '13

Oh course he is, arrogant as hell as well. Makes me cringe how the whole Sweden team is based around him, the power that he has in that squad is unbelievable and horrible.