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What an absolute twat. A complete liability at whichever club he plays for.

will be lucky not to miss the first 7 or 8 games of next season

What's happened?

I hear Man City are doing everything they can to throw the title away.

Elbowed "tevez" in so say retaliation. Got a red. Wanted to fight everyone on the way off.

It wasn't *that* bad in terms of the physical side. But to do it when your team is fighting for Premier League survival in the most difficult of circumstances is retarded.

And as I type QPR are 2-1 up. surely not.....

Barton supposedly struck Tevez in the face but he didn't - Tevez is a cheating twat.

Having said that, Barton must have decided to get ....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! QPR have just gone 2-1 up :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

That's for you Tevez you shit!

If you were a Man Utd fan, this would be the sweetest title in living memory.  Glad I don't know any!

...any way...he must have decided he might as well get hung for a sheep as a lamb and then booted their no.16 up the ass and tried to head butt Kompany...hilarious..as is the current score line

Most importantly, Phil Gartside's Bolton will go down at the mo! With £100m+ debts or whatever it is.

There was a tussle between Barton and Tevez and Tevez collapsed on the edge of the area. Lino saw it and the ref sent him off. On the way off Barton then kicked out at Aguero, and the Man City bench tried to go after Barton as he eventually walked off.

And Man City are showing how NOT to win the title. It's no 5-0 victory which we did.

QPR...Two shots...Two goals.

Impressive to acquire three straight reds in short order. Think the Red Mist may have come down a little there!

They were staying up before QPR's goals, I think?  If ever there was a club fighting for it's life, it's got to be Bolton.  No love lost there from me.  Take that, McGinley!

And Balotelli's coming on

Had Barton been a cheating cunt like Tevez he would have thrown himself to the ground holding his face after Tevez caught him.

But being a fucking idiot he retaliated, and then after getting the Red card kneed Kunt Aguero up the arse (who proceeded to fall down like he had been shot), and then tried to headbutt Kompany.

It really sums up everything that is wrong with the Premier League, full of prima donna cheating bastards

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Yep, QPR were down.

Both goals also moves Villa closer to relegation, although seems Bolton have gone another behind?

Bolton 2-2 :)

Had some of the worst ever times at Bolton.

The 7-0 hammering

Losing a 3-1 lead in the league cup semi

Going up there for an evening cup tie and getting called off

OK, in fairness, Barton did elbow Tevez in the mush. Still as funny as fuck though.

Yes Ardiles, to start with, QPR were safe and Bolton were down as they were 1-0 down at Stoke. Then Man City scored and Bolton scored two, all in 5 minutes so QPR were down and City were Champions.

Then QPR scored twice and it all turned on its head - best finish to a Premier League season ever, regardless of what happens in the last few minutes.

Realistically, Villa can't go down (sadly).

Barton is a horrible fucking tosser. Would love to see him given a proper hiding

Balotelli's on the pitch now - he's bound to do something brilliant or idiotic or both - it just gets better and better 8)

There is always one

https://twitter.com/#!/Now__Football/status/201698024861343744/photo/1

Ha, just seen some City fan trying to kick the shit out of the seat in front of him

So Bolton's only hope now is that Man City score twice?  Bye bye, fellas.  Gartside had this coming to him ever since he started trying to fuck around with Premier League II and the 39th Game.

:D

Mike summerbee should follow us champions  :beers:
 City have been dreadful second half

2-2, 3 to go. Surely not.

Surely yes ...... fucking hell :D

Unbeleivable. 3-2 City

what a season

Brilliant Man City - just for that look on Fergie's face

Premiershit?????
brilliant

UNBEFUCKINGLIEVABLE JEFF

What a last day!

Fucking hell.  Who would be a Man U fan now?  That's about as hefty a kick in the knackers as you'll ever get.  Delicious timing.

Equals 1989 in my book for best season finish.

hate Man City & the BS that surrounds there 'wonderful' support

More pleased that QPR stayed up & Bolton went down.

Un-fucking-believable. Best ever finish to a Premier League season. Better even than Arsenal winning it in the last minute against Liverpool in '89.

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 :nod:

 :smugfu: Gartside

fuck you fergie and co  :smugfu: :clap: :clap:

Maybe that was payback for the Fergie Time when Man U scored twice in 10 minutes of injury time against Sheff Wed

Up yours Fergie!

That's City's version of United's 1999 Champions League final ending...

Don't get the Man City love in myself mind.

cos i fucking hate utd batch

+1

It's United hatred not City love

+2 up urs utd :D

I have no feelings for them either way. If they'd have lost I would have pissed myself laughing. As it was, it was an absolutely amazing finish - oh the joys of being a neutral 8)

Anyway...at least we all now know how much it costs to buy a title:  £930 million.

United win fook all despite spending £60m+ last summer...

Indeed, its this whole thing that has emerged in the last 12 months that City are buying success whilst Utd are some sort of football academy.

City have bought the title, just as utd have for the last 20 years, Blackburn did in the 1990's and Chelsea in the 2000's. The only team that could possibly claim not to have bought it are Arsenal.

Bolton down and QPR stay up, Fergie is gutted- happy days

Fully agree on that.

The companies that were reportedy doing 'CHAMP20NS' merchandise are gutted.

Fergie moaning about the 5 mins of injury time...

Just as we bought the League 2 title some would say

+3  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

certainly did, all our players are on £10k a week, how can other teams compete?

Yep.  Knock 3 or 4 noughts off the end of the Man City figure and you'd be about there.

Nobody here has any problem with how we won the League - just as we wont next season.

Unfortunately, in these times, money is the only way to the top table.

what the fuck are you on about?
Kerry red has it right

Wow. Watched it at a mates house. A swindon, West Ham, Arsenal and cardiff fan all went mad when aguero scored.

Forget out the money, enjoy the drama. Football. Is. Quality.

It might have been a bit "Tongue in cheek" arriba

of course it was.
my point stands

I was at a barbecue and followed it on my phone. Even without pictures, I quite enjoyed it.

Most dramatic top flight conclusion since '89.

We probably invested more toward promotion from L2 than any other team (Crawley?). But then, we are/were arguably the biggest team in the league (and by some distance over most).

What were we supposed to do? Limit our investment to be more sporting?

Next season we will be up against other clubs that are of similar size, or larger. I think we (and other clubs) should hold their judgement of how we 'buy the league' until we compare our spending against clubs of a similar size to STFC.

We threw money at it and big wages are paid to players. But money alone wont win trophies.

Yep and the fact that QPR only had 10 men - what a fucking hypocrite!

The shit thing about the Premiership is the fact it gets all the money, not that teams like City spend a bazzilion quid to win a title (all the teams do anyway).

Good bit of drama and I will fully enjoy MOTD later.

Someone has to get all the money, the other three leagues don't deserve it

soapy tit wank

https://twitter.com/#/Joey7Barton/status/201733055021453312

1. I thought the incident was great. People will cry "think of the children" but I love a bit of idiocy of the football pitch so enjoyed it thoroughly.

2. I bet Twitter will not be kind to him.

Pacifist my arse.

Yeah, of course. I respect him more for doing that. Get sent off, do it properly.

Twitters a shame tonight, so many morons nattering on about how much of a swindon fan they are, trying to denigrate Cities win. It's boring, and petty.

Yeah I've noticed a bit of "SWINDON SWINDON SWINDON" messages.

We won Division Four and I'm thoroughly enjoying it but (two weeks on and) Man City have just scored two injury time goals to win the top flight. That doesn't tend happen.

That rosie said something which i questoned. Her response then competely dodged the issue

That Rosie is a ray of sunshine isn't she :)

Empty cans make the most noise

Agree with all that. All the Uniteed fans gobbing off about City buying the title neatly overlook the fact their starting lineup today cost more than City's.

Great to watch it unfold with no real vested interest today, phenomenal drama. Days like today are why people follow sport.

Ohhhhhh, love paul merson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7B9ERbqdY

mr merson's done well to not swear there!

Ha ha "They have got love bites and everything"

That Ollie Howitt was bitching out as well. Pretty sure he was Man United before he started going to Swindon games... At least that's my assumption, purely because he's from Ciren.

If that's the rule then I am also a man united fan too then
We do have an unhealthy amount of man u fans in Ciren, where I work 90% of the guys are united fans

Doesn't the Manchester Ship Canal go through Ciren? Is Batch a closet MUFC fan?  ;)

I liked the bit just before Barton was given the red card, Mike Dean tells Shaun Derry what's happened and Derry's reply is "You're fucking kidding me?"

No anger from Derry, very much a 'not again' reaction.

Had goosebumps when City scored their third goal.
Not cos I'm a city fan, but just the whole thing it being last day and all and what a brilliant day of football.

same, cant imagine what it felt like being a city fan at that point, 2 minutes from being a laughing stock then all of a sudden that happened. Reminded me ironicly of man u doing the same to Bayern Munich in that CL final.

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That’s what I kept thinking about.  I was jealous of how good City must have felt in the initial 30 seconds of mayhem when Aguero scored, better than any high a drug can give you.  I cant think of a scenario that beats it.

Just hope one day to experience something like that, although in our case I guess it would be an injury time goal to send us up a divisional as opposed to a title.

Bodin's penalty at Wembley?

Ifil's late equaliser against Southend to promote us?

Just a couple for starters.

i always remember being 2-1 down at home to grimsby in the mid-nineties and down to injury time but winning 3-2.  had absolutely nothing riding on it but it was pretty cool

OK my memory has really given up the ghost now....

Not the same thing, but that Invincibile equaliser against Posh.

I think he means Walsall.

We took the lead in that game just after half time

That's the badger

what about the second in our game against port vale sealing the championship

winning against charlton to get to the play off final at wembley

Jerel Ifil's goal didn't cause euphoria. Just relief.

Remember being 1-2 down to Brizzle Robots at home and scoring twice in the last couple of minutes to win 3-2

But surely the best of all time was the comeback from 4-1 down at Birmingham to win 6-4

It was worth sneaking through a host of very unhappy Zulus after the game!

Yeah i remember that one. Loads of people left early that day and missed it. Serves em fucking right. Bet there were some empty seats at City yesterday too when they were 2-1 down.

:nod: which is absolutely shamefull

The late-ish Sheffield Wednesday comeback in the mid-00's was good.

4-1 down at Birmingham, only for us to win it 6-4

is that the one we ended winning 4-3 or 4-2?

3-2

I think you're thinking of the FA Cup game.

I'm referring to this one...

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20050115

Coming back to win a bog standard game with a couple of late goals isnt the same really, what is riding on the game has to be a factor

Invincible v Posh is probably comparable

McCormack's late winner against Northampton?

The goal against Plymouth at the CG this season. We thought we were going up as Crawley were losing.

Stephen Derby scoring the pnealty in the shootout at Charlton.

i was indeed thinking of that cup game  :doh:

near heart-attack moment for me was that

Has Invincible's goal vs Posh popped up online anywhere yet? Seems to be strangely absent, much like the double over O*ford.

Still amazed at how Barton has managed to out do himself yet again. Sent off for an elbow, kicks another player to the ground, head butts another, fights everyone on the way off the pitch, then admits the kick was an attempt to get one of their players sent off and that he did it on the advice of a team mate. If they punish him for everything as separate events he'd be looking at a 15 game ban just for what happened on the pitch, probably with another 5 games for being a twat.

Can't blame Barton totally as he has always been allowed to get away with it. Even if QPR grew some balls and sacked him, plenty of other clubs would be waiting to offer him a contract.

Loved the way Baliotelli went in to reverse when Barton reacted to his taunts on the way off. It reminded me a bit of Winterburn with PDC....

I also chuckled at the Man city and QPR coaches and players who were dragging him away and risking a nut for their trouble. They should have let him get on with it. Hilarious!

Invincibile, it's Invincibile.

I have recently grown to dislike Barton, not for his indiscipline, but for his obsession with Twatter, and the way he has tried to reinvent himself as the "thinking man" by re-using quotes found on wikipedia.

However, yesterday's performance has reversed that !
I thought it was a brilliant performance, why get hung for a lamb when you can get hung for a sheep ?

And you can't say he hasn't got bottle, he was basically trying to get himself clouted.

Bottle? He's stupid as fuck, by all means twat Tevez but whatever you do in life, try not to start a fight with Vincent Kompany.

i fucking loved barton yesterday, brilliant stuff.

How can the FA charge him?  Surely the Ref would've reported all of the incidents in his match report..? Or does the fact that he had been sent so couldn't receive any further punishment mean they can hang him out to dry?

so what we thinking then? 8 match ban? (Sky sports have already stated it's 4 just for the elbow without the second charge of kicking Aguero)

She needs to get laid

Am I right in saying that the two charges are for the kick on Aguero and the (attempted) headbutt on Kompany and not the initially elbow on Tevez?

No matter how precious people get it's amazing when those incidents happen, especially when you're at the game.

Twitter is amusing.

That crazy Barnet fan with the massive chip on her shoulder is my favourite !

i went to the game yesterday in the qpr end and have to say the city fans outside the ground where quality, my mate and his dad are qpr fans and they had loads of people come up to they for a chat and to say good luck. Dont tend to get that outside most grounds especially with so much at stake.

In the ground you could just sense the pressure, and you could see both sets of fans watching the people who had brought radios in keep people upto date with the scores, when stoke scored after 15 minutes it went nuts in the away end... When city scored in the 1st i've never heard a cheer that loud.....until the final whistle that is....obviously with the way that everything unfolded it was amazing tv, but it was also fantastic to be there something i wont forget for a long time.

People say city brought the league but every winner to a degree is guily of this...its a sad factor of the "moderngame"

Leaving the ground was quality as well, seeing some of the city fans that had left early and couldntget back in all shaking our hands and giving us hugs.

I felt mentally shattered after yesterday and i was a neutral, god knows what it would have been like as a fan of either club!

Is that, that Lucy character? If yes, then she's a twat. When I was on twitter her anti Di Canio 'tweets' were hilarious.

She blocked me

She's also pretty friendly with a few of that lot down the A420, so that explains her anti Swindon drivel!

She blocked me too, a few weeks back - and I'd never even tweeted her!!

Yep Lucy. She's a cheery character

Lucy, decent rack but seems to have a tash growing

That Rosie must be permentally on the blob, too much anger for one so young

Haha

Gwarn Tevez

According to the BBC it's two additional charges for the kick and headbutt, as the referee couldn't do anything as he'd already sent him off. They're talking about him possibly getting a 10 game ban for it.

Whilst he's a complete twat and deserves a heavy punishment, it makes for great TV and entertainment. Same for mass brawls, obviously they're wrong, should be discouraged and punished heavily but they're good fun to watch.

Mass brawls in football, whilst entertaining are so lame though! Now I would never for one moment suggest that rugby > football, but when they have a brawl, they really do it properly. There was a Gloucester rugby match which descended into a brawl. Proper punches thrown, was great viewing!

BBC Sport reporting on Twitter that he's been given a 12 game ban.

12 Games. Should have given the Cunt 12 years. Prick.

I'm sure he'll moan about the ban, but it could have been worse given he "didn't lose his head"..

12 matches is way OTT in my view. Handbags and nothing else. Big fucking pansies the lot of them.

Quality tweet:

12 games is ridiculous.

Totally agree, should have been 20!

Bloody piss take.

5 at most.

He'll be coming on trial with us after his ban.

Think he got off lightly, it was 4 for the red card, 4 for the kick (he didn't contest either of these two) and 4 for the head butt. It would have been another 3 if they'd added the extra game for each additional red card (as they would normally do) and even more if they'd taken his post game comments in to account.

He'll be PDC's first signing when we're back in the second tier. I'd love that Joey Barton in a Town shirt.

That's the best part of a third of a season for him. There is no way his pathetic little strop deserves that.

For people with a better memory than me, how many games did Cantona get banned for his kick? Petty sure it was 9 months but that included the close season too.

How many did the darling of the media Alan Shearer get for kicking Neil Lennon in the face back in '98?

1998 was fourteen years ago under different suits.

I doubt it would have been anywhere near as severe as Joey Barton but I think the Shearer example is too old to compare.

Hope so

Ha like it. Maybe he could get some of those games knocked off if he could prove one or more of those he kicked was a racist?

1970's Charity shield fight between Keegan and Bremner resulted in 3 match ban for KK and 8 match ban for Bremner, and that was a proper fight, shirts off and all!

Interestingly the FA at the time made an example of Bremner as it was the first Charity Shield televised so their fight was seen by millions.

And as for no comparison, bollocks. A player the media hates = 12 match ban. A player the media were infatuated with got no ban at all.  Double standards, whether it was 14 years ago or not. It's still the Premier League period.

(edited as original post missed first paragraph).

Consider myself told.

From a quick Google it was 8 months which included the close season. Don't think he would get off so lightly today and if I'd had my way he'd have been banned for life - the same as a fan would have been for running on to the pitch and attacking a player.

Cantona should have got a reward for doing what he did. That prick of a supporter deserved every bit of what he got. Cantona should have lumped that silly old bag who started off thinking it was funny when the abuse was being dished out.

Merci Eric the King.

Of course Cantona should have been hung for his stamp on Moncur but then frankly he deserved a medal (or a whole ripe Cheese) for the Kung Fu kick on the Palace twat ! Barton on the other hand would now fit in well at Rotherham.

The only reward that French twat got when he came to the county group was a slap

Merci Eric le prick

He should have been given a medal, not a ban

Are you talking about the Hughes incident?

It was the same day, just the incident in the cg car park

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-18321310


Fair play to him.

Been arrested for affray.

 

According to Piers Morgan on twitter... haven't seen it anywhere else.

Now on Daily Mail...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2154582/Joey-Barton-arrested-alleged-fight.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Via Sky Sports news...

Why hasn't he got a shirt on in the picture? What's with the blood on his arm? (If that is his arm).

Doesn't appear quite how Barton was suggesting. Surprising that.

Besides, what the fuck was he doing out at 5am? Asking for trouble.

but he's a changed man

I like the fact he is much more intelligent than I thought he was.  On twitter he was quoting some very interesting and thought provoking authors, including Nietzsche.



I never thought Barton was bright enough to type, let alone use google.

Wait and see i suppose.Easy to jump on the bandwagon

I was under the impression he was the one that got the smack in the face

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He got someone else to do it for him

Same here

Good job if he did

I know he's a cunt and a liability but I still wouldnt mind him in our midfield

He can go fuck himself - a hateful, delusional cunt who deserves a slap

According to the last few posts I think he might have had one.

Is it surprising people want to hit him when pissed up and out on the town and he is there?
Reckon it would be hard to resist for most blokes.

An arrest for hitting him would be a trophy.

Imagine if I broke Steve McCunts's nose one day.... I'd be an STFC legend. 

No excuse for violence - even on Barton.

Brilliant....and I'm not referring to his agents tweets.

Just seen on SSN the Garlands nightclub in Liverpool where this incident took place.

Fuck me, what a shithole that looks. Hardly in keeping with a PL footballer quaffing champagne with all the other beautiful people - but just like the kind of place for a good punch up.

I see he is about to sign a 6 month loan deal at Fleetwood.

Isn't this the way to get round the ban (somewhat)? Pretty sure the twelve games with Fleetwood means he's free to play from early October rather than mid-November of he stayed at QPR.