Barton’s a thug... who would’ve thought it?
Let’s call it the Brexit effect. A treacherous path is chosen, sensible warnings are made against it, those warnings are proven accurate, but those who made the decision continue in denial of reality.
think back to 2016. A no- deal Brexit was never on the agenda. ‘the free-trade deal that we will have to do with the european Union should be one of the easiest in human history,’ said Liam Fox. He didn’t mention crashing out as option one. Crashing out was not on the menu.
Now it is what this gaggle of incompetents want people to believe was voted for, rather than admit they got it wrong. that resigning from the EU was, as predicted, a precarious, complicated process. that it would leave the country poorer, and the poorest regions facing crisis.
For the same reason Fleetwood town are standing by Joey Barton, who is expected to be interviewed by south Yorkshire Police this week over an allegation of serious assault. Of course they are — to suspend or fail to support him pending investigation, would imply chairman Andy Pilley was completely wrong when he put his club in the stewardship of a violent thug.
And Pilley does not want to admit he was wrong, so he stands by his man, even though that man may have left Barnsley’s manager looking for his teeth in the tunnel.
Meanwhile, at Ipswich, fans are jubilant having been relegated to League One less than halfway through April. they have to be. Otherwise they must admit that, in the circumstances and given the budgetary restrictions, Mick McCarthy was doing a superb job keeping the club free of relegation trouble, and if the football was less than expansive, it was necessary to survive.
Instead, they made his life a misery and he quit. the managers that have succeeded him, Paul Hurst and Paul Lambert, have won a grand total of four games in all competitions this season.
McCarthy won more than that between August 5 and August 19 in his final campaign. He won 17 games in total before walking out, prematurely, with a 1-0 win over Barnsley. Yet to display unhappiness at an upcoming fixture list that may include trips to scunthorpe and Rochdale next season would, in many cases, involve admitting being misguidedly harsh on McCarthy.
And in our post-truth, post-referendum age, that would never do. so no deal was always the aim, Barton is perfect for Fleetwood and McCarthy did a rotten job not getting Ipswich relegated.
everybody’s happy.