Mark Andrews: Joey Barton is the tip of a poisonous iceberg that is contaminating social media |
Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news
In a candid interview with Sky Sports reporter Katie Barnfield, Joey Barton confided his innermost thoughts as he was about to be sentenced after being convicted of six offences of sending malicious communications.
"It is what it is," he observed, incisively.
Barton claimed he was the victim of a 'political prosecution' when he was merely trying to provoke a debate. So one might reasonably ask what were the deep-rooted political and philosophical matters he wanted to get across?
He called Jeremy Vine a 'big bike nonce', and branded football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko the 'Fred and Rose West of........