Does Joey Barton deserve a 2nd chance for playing for England

J4K3 M · 15 Jan 2011 at 02:20

Questions pretty much in the title and was just wondering what people thought.

I personally think he does as he is playing some of the best football of his career at the moment at Newcastle and is one of our most consistent players on the pitch. Only problem is I'm a Newcastle supporter and people might think I have a biased view towards this.

Yes I understand that he isn't the best behaved footballer in the world but to be honest, are any of out England stars? John Terry, Ashley Cole and Wayne Rooney have all had affairs, the story about Wayne over the summer wasn't exactly the best either about him ****ing in the bins (yes we all do it but we dont get caught

) and all the other stuff that happened but we still pick and play them because their good at what they do.

So opinions people.... Should Barton get another chance in the England squad?

J4K3 M · 15 Jan 2011 at 02:35

Have you seen the state of out team at the moment though, We need new people to play and the form he is on along with the likes of Andy Carroll for us they can provide them.

If only Gareth Bale was English

J4K3 M · 15 Jan 2011 at 03:11

Thought this might be the type of reaction I would have gotten to be honest but the form he has been is this season has to be looked at compared to lampard and gerrard who are both "world class" yet they have both struggled this season a long with their teams aswell yet they are constantly picked for selection.

His history is terrible for violence i'll admit that but apart from the Pedersen incident this season and if you want to say the torres as well he hasn't reacted badly. Rooney comes out and slates his team, manager and demands a transfer and the boom signs a new contract and all is forgotten

J4K3 M · 15 Jan 2011 at 03:45

drunkenmaster said:
we won't win anything with or without Barton so why put him in?

To give others a chance to see if we use different players if we can build teams around different players.

Just for the record I didnt mean to sound like I was saying that Barton is better than Lampard/Gerrard but is playing better form at the moment and yes lampard has been injured but England have a friendly coming up soon, pointless playing him if hes not fully fit or back to normal form. Yes Barton isn't the perfect role model but I return to my original post of players cheating on their wives.

They arent exactly perfect role models doing that yet they seem to be forgiven because they play for big teams