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Joey Barton doesn’t know anything about women in sport

9 January 2024

11:32 PM

9 January 2024

11:32 PM

Joey Barton – the Pied Piper of disaffected football fans – has had a busy week. He began by comparing female football commentators to Fred and Rose West, the serial killers who murdered 12 young women. He then went on to imply that female commentators had slept their way to the top.

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