{"id":296273,"date":"2023-12-07T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=296273"},"modified":"2023-12-07T23:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T23:53:54","slug":"barton-blasts-woke-women-commentators-with-fiery-tick-boxes-rant-to-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/barton-blasts-woke-women-commentators-with-fiery-tick-boxes-rant-to-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Barton blasts ‘woke’ women commentators with fiery ‘tick boxes’ rant to Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joey Barton has doubled down on his claims that women should not be allowed to comment on men’s football. The former Manchester City star was invited onto Piers Morgan Uncensored on Thursday to elaborate on his position after posting a string of tweets bashing female commentators and pundits.<\/p>\n

Barton compared women commentating on football to men talking about knitting during a social media rant that lasted 12 hours and was not let off the hook when he joined Morgan on Talk TV. After a heated debate with the television presenter, he rowed with former Sky Sports reporter Bianca Westwood as part of a three-woman panel which included esteemed sports presenter Kait Borsay and influencer Pearl Davis.<\/p>\n

But before that, Barton took aim at the supposed “woke agenda” in the world of sports journalism. \u201cYou have to be there on merit, not to fit this woke agenda that is going on in society,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You don\u2019t have to have played the game, a lot of managers haven\u2019t, a lot of commentators haven\u2019t. But they\u2019ve earned the right with hard work over a prolonged period of time to get into that space.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it helps if you\u2019ve played at a high level because it gives you a unique perspective. There are similarities between both sports but the men\u2019s game is played at a completely different speed and completely different skill set.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for someone to stand there and say \u2018I would have done that\u2019 or \u2018he\u2019s made a mistake there\u2019 who have no experience of that – and it\u2019s not just one or two, it\u2019s being taken over and ruining the experience.<\/p>\n

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