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What Joey Barton gets wrong – and right – about female football pundits

9 December 2023

12:51 AM

9 December 2023

12:51 AM

Joey Barton, the ex-Manchester City, Newcastle and QPR player, is in hot water again – this time over a series of blatantly sexist posts on social media, criticising women commentators and pundits. He posted that ‘women shouldn’t be talking with any kind of authority in the men’s game’, arguing it was the same as him ‘talking about knitting or netball’. Barton

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