Outrage at Barton’s sexist radio tirade

BaNNED footballer Joey Barton has caused more turmoil within talkSPORt after his latest comments on the station outraged radio colleagues.

Barton said on alan Brazil’s breakfast show yesterday that Everton’s plight was comparable to being left with the fat bird at the end of the disco. this prompted newsreader Sandy Warr to say on Facebook that it was ‘mind-blowing misogyny even by talkSPORt standards’, adding, ‘glad to be on my way out of the door soon’.

Former host Mick Brown also commented: ‘It is quite unbelievable the way the place is just left rudderless to allow things like that.’

Barton caused controversy earlier this month when he said caretaker Everton boss David Unsworth, whom he called ‘a glorified PE teacher’, was too fat to be a manager.

and Warr briefly walked out of the station following a heated debate with Brazil about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn when he told her on air: ‘Just get on with reading the news.’

Barton, who is serving a 13-month gamblingrelated ban, was originally due to join talkSPORt’s evening kick- off show. But as that programme has a bookmaker as sponsor for live matches he was switched to a weekly appearance on Brazil’s breakfast show.

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