Joey Barton, no success - By Daniel Racheter

It's been a while since I have blogged but i'm sure this blog will make up for it as I think it's a topic on everybody's mind, Joey Barton.


Usually a players behaviour and attitude is contradicted by the success they have in their career, but looking over Bartons career I can honestly not see what success he has made or had, apart from moving from club to club and slowly slipping away from each with his selfish uncontrolled behaviour and attitude.


Barton was at City but they soon got rid of him to Newcastle, where he didn't have the greatest start. Barton is a typical character but he's also a character that no big club want in their team. Sure, he was at City but lets face it, they wasn't big then compared to what they are now.


At one point I did have some slight praise for him last season at Newcastle, he seemed to of controlled his attitude and turned it into his game until his time was up with thinking he was bigger than Newcastle and they posted him off to Loftus Road, another place where he thinks he is bigger than the club.


Now, your proberly all wondering why I take such a disliking to Barton and it's simply for the fact that he is an out of control character who has no respect for anyone around him and always has a lame excuse for his actions of violence on the pitch, when the simple factor is, he's just a good guy trying to be the bad guy, all his Twitter vents are just him trying to make himself bigger than he is because deep down he knows he has failed at every club he has been at.

Joeys attitude and general view on everything is a sign of fustration and bittnerness for his failures and mistakes.


When I worked at QPR, after a game Barton was walking towards me down the street, people was asking him for his autographs and wanted photographs and I just walked straight past him because for me, when you get your picture done with a footballer it should be someone you look up to as a person aswell as a player... I have never looked up to him as neither and i'm sure many other people don't.


If we cast our minds back to the weekend, Manchester City 3 QPR 2, Barton was sent off for a completely rediculous scene of events where he attacked not 2 but 3 city players. Bareing in mind this is a game that QPR has to count on Stoke to draw with Bolton or beat them at the Britannia just showed his lack of respect for his team mates and his club who braught him there and put belief in him when not many other clubs would of.


Lucky enough for QPR, Stoke equalised late on against Bolton and sent Bolton down. With 11 men on the pitch, I believe QPR would of held on to win against City. At the end of a game with 10 men is the hardest as its more difficult because a team comes at you more and more and QPR simply fell apart but fortunately stayed up.


Had it been a different chain of events and Bolton won at Britannia and Barton was sent off at the Ethihad and QPR lost 3-2 i'm sure Barton would of been to fully blame for their relegation.


Some people call Joey Barton passionate, I call him a complete liability and a no mark who can't even take criticism, especially from Shearer when all Alan said was he was ' out of control ' and will ' never learn ' truth hurts Joey.


John Terry may be a scum bag Barton but atleast he plays for his team and can take criticism and puts himself on the line for his team and is a leader, oh.. and had success in his career.


It's sad to say but if I was you Barton I would look up to John Terry, Alan Shearer and all them other players you slate so regulary on your twitter page because they are bigger and better players than you will ever be because when your career draws to an end, nobody will remember you for being a big mouth, people will remember you for medals, success and passion 3 of the key things you lack as a player.


Don't dish out the opinions if nobody can have one on you, shows what a real weak character you really are.

Why Manchester City... Deserve the Title :(

As you may of guessed, I'm a Man United fan so can you just imagine how painful this is to write! So with that in mind i'll try and keep this as short and sweet as possible, before I throw myself off a cliff.

The way i see it is this, City..deserve to win the premier league this year simply because they have won the games that they've had to win. Whereas United have thrown away 8 point and two goal leads. I'm not calling it complacency on Uniteds part but more of an immaturity - which is surprising given that we've had the old guard Paul back and Ryan and Rio playing regularly as well. United could of had this title sewn up long ago but its our own fault if/when City claim their first title in decades and to be honest, its hard to say that they haven't deserved it - from simply a football point of view!!


City look like a team that is constantly evolving every game, and when you look at the two line-ups, men to men you have to say that city just look solid. The spine of the team is as strong, if not stronger than many of the top European teams, and it is such flexible system with De Jong balancing out the human bulldozer that is Yaya Toure - who without, city would be no where!

Whoever wins the league next weekend, and Ive  almost resigned to the fact it will be city because like i say, they win when they have to, united seem to have folded in similar position. so yea, who ever wins next weekend will have provided the neutrals with an exciting finale and it has been exciting you cant deny that. But i just hope this isn't the start of City domination because the way they've gone about it - buying the title - aggravates me because it just makes a mockery of how clubs should aspire to win things. Buying it rather than earning it.

Michael Johnston