Joey Barton believes Alex Scott isn’t qualified to comment on men’s football (Picture: Piers Morgan Uncensored)
Joey Barton has caused further outrage by claiming England legend Alex Scott isn’t qualified to comment on the men’s game.
The divisive former Manchester City and Newcastle midfielder, sacked in October following a miserable spell in charge of Bristol City, caused outrage on social media on Thursday with his outdated views of female commentators.
Barton, who represented his country at international level on one sole occasion, was subsequently invited to explain himself and his views on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored show last night and turned his ire on Scott.
The now out of work football manager claimed Scott, who played for her country on 140 occasions and now presents BBC’s long-running magazine show Football Focus, shouldn’t be commenting on the men’s game.
‘She hasn’t played in it [the men’s game],’ Barton told Morgan in reference to Scott, who played at three World Cup tournaments across a 13-year international career.
BBC presenter Alex Scott made 140 international appearances for England (Picture: Getty)
Joey Barton’s England career lasted 12 minutes (Picture: Getty)
‘One is 200 years old and one is about 40 years old… It’s the same rules but football is about a lot more than rules… The games are at two different speeds.’
‘Women shouldn’t be talking with any kind of authority in the men’s game. Come on. Let’s be serious,’ Barton had posted on X earlier this week.
‘It’s a completely different game. If you don’t accept that. We will always see things differently. The women’s game is thriving. Fantastic to see. I cannot take a thing they say serious in the men’s arena.’
A string of high-profile presenters couldn’t resist responding to Barton’s inflamatory comments, including TNT’s headline Champions League presenter Laura Woods.
Taking particular issue with his ocmments on female vloggers, Woods picked up on the ex-footballer calling those who disagreed with him ‘eunuchs’ and returned the insult.
‘Usually avoid these conversations as I don’t like adding more oxygen. But throwing young vloggers to the wolves is wrong,’ Woods wrote.
‘I started my career vlogging and I’ve always got on with Joey. He also sent me a lovely good luck message for TNT in June. Does that make him a eunuch too?’
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