The ‘Bird Man’ Barton. A Sinned Pantomime. League 2, Part 3. One Hundred and Eighty
The ‘Bird Man’ Barton
Joey the ‘Bird Man’ Barton has come out on the ‘Fink Bart’ syndrome into the public domain to keep himself relative in one’s mind, following on from his sacking at Bristol Rovers. Barton released from his cage attacked the women’s fraternity in football, stating that women should not be talking about the men’s game with any authority but does not want to talk about sexism, that’s the ‘Barton Fink’. It’s to think Joey, that’s the word you are looking for before engaging the burger headed cord attached to the mouthpiece, adding that Barton claims to be a bona fide expert, hence his sacking at Bristol Rovers.
Piers Morgan of the uncensored variety gave Barton airtime to put shit on the stove to increase the TalkTV show’s ratings, journalist of the year Piers, why not indeed. Joey claimed that to acquire pundit come hosting roles should be earned on merit and not gained through the wokeism movement or tokism as depicted on the badge. To concur on the observation there are many who are lorded onto the platform and evolve to mediocrity but not all can be tarnished as not worthy. The Barton’s interview backdrop settings on the Piers Morgan looked strange alongside the look of a young Ronnie Corbett with the black spectacles or could it be Joe 90. A long white tiled wall was the main setting behind Barton which looked similar to the white public toilet’s tiled walls. So did Joey pick out a housed shit housery mocked up with furniture into a corner piece to air one’s muck spreading on the female football fraternity? So is Barton in the shit house for his comments, uncensored. Link to article 31 May 2022 ‘Joey the Bird Man’ archived.
A Sinned Pantomime
Is football becoming a pantomime? Joey Barton the villain of the pantomime to be sinned upon would have been the case on a regular basis if on the green blaze with player sin bins to be introduced to football on the horizon. The non-understanding of the visuals put to the video assistant referees to include added time for their deliberations as they become the rabbits in the headlights, they regularly do not adhere to the clear and obvious, we can add the need for the automated offside technology to be introduced. Added we have sin bins being rubbished about to be sinned upon to enter a sin bin as a ten minute caution to suggest. So will the sinned card be orange not to be squeezed but an amber warning to players to curb down on any cautionable offences, a step too far if introduced, has to be the case doesn’t it? Football’s continued farce into pantomime. Barton’s subterfuge is to promote his new podcast titled ‘Common Sense’ the caper the Bird Man Barton
League 2, Part 3
Into the final chapter on League 2, highlighting the remaining clubs octaned pick of their highest transfer paid out with the Salford City for all their expenditure transferred in at the paltry figure of £7000 on Jordan Hulme from Ramsbottom in 2015, Hulme is currently at Altrincham. The Stevenage Boro for their part busted the vaults to a £100,000 fee for Scott Laird from Plymouth Argyle in the 2007-8 season. Laird played a pivotal part in Stevenage’s rise from the conference to League One.
Stockport County outflanked both these clubs with a staggering 1.08 million pounds for Ian Thomas Moore from Nottingham Forest in 1998. Moore transferred to Burnley two years later. Staying with this ‘S’ group, Sutton United reveal an undisclosed list indicating transfer fees have not been paid out. Strange indeed for Sutton to lingo that the club has not paid out on transfer fees is ludicrous. Unto the final ‘S’ bend with Swindon Town bust gutting at £900,000 for Westham’s Joey Beauchamp in 1994 and transferred one year later to Oxford United. Into Merseyside and Tranmere Rovers who raided Aston Villa for the much revered Shaun Teale at £500,000, Teale a former League Cup winner. Into the Midlands with Walsall who saddled for the foreign brigade by signing winger Andreas Makris from Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta in August 2016, the fee £319,000. Makris left the club a year later with the Saddlers, stating that they recouped the player’s original fee, sing a prayer on that one. The trilogy completed on last season’s League Two clubs, enjoyed the ride, PHEW!
One Hundred and Eighty
The arrowed sensation of the dart’s world, the sixteen year old Luke Litler hogged the headlines during the New Year festivities on route to the Paddy Power World Darts Championship final at the Ally Pally in London, losing to Luke Humphries the world’s number one ranked player. So is the darts an artistic form of sport to throw the darts with pinpoint accuracy is a theme, one hundred and eighty. God’s gift to the arm alongside the stance, the posture to not loose the balance from the invariably bulging stomachs, the lutein loaded eyes and the minor movement of the polished fingers. The ten million viewers that tune in are heaven sent ‘God’s Gift’. The darts fans dressed up as bananas or the loaded up Donald Trump Kentucky Fried Chicken encounters to make the darts great again as they sink their beer beverages. So would the game be as alluring without the beer beverages all tanked up, no tanking from Luke, the ‘boy wonder’ did the darts proud.
The 2021 sensation at the age of eighteen came in the tennis world with Britain’s Emma Raducanu riding on the crest of an incredible arrow directed at the USA Open final, defeating Leylan Fernandez to claim the USA Tennis Grand Slam crown, Raducanu became the first qualifier since the open era to win a major singles title. To breathe in the oxygen at those rarefied heights any player in the sporting world would need to have the desire to want to stay there, the pinnacle to be crowned for the next decade. So, is the Raducanu success narrative a fluke? Can a fluke transpire to win a prestigious trophy? Why are these questions being asked, since that sun drenched final Raducanu has disappeared off the tennis dial drop zoning into the deep depth ranking of the two hundreds, alongside a long injury list with eight coaches coming and going through the evolving door, what’s the beef? That’s more coaches than matches played since the final. Emma needs to ask the question “Am I the imposter of the tennis world?”. It’s time to put the fashion shows to one side to save your career, Raducanu whose career cycle has come to the full one hundred and eighty.