footballer gets bored in retirement, uses Twitter to its full potential

Context: Joey Barton is former Newcastle/Manchester City player who went on to have a failed career as a manager. In 2022, his wife accused him of assaulting her, but later refused to assist the prosecution.

Last month, he took aim at women commentators for not understanding men's football (note: a DV charity promoted their Tweet under his )

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1732535415033184443

Now he's got a bit more personal, comparing two female commentators to serial killers

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743178035766153418

The Great and Good of football were outraged. Headlines were made and ITV put out a statement on Twitter, but Joey has still come out swinging

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743327495301234831

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743516036698382598

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743529495783747668

Other random tweets:

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1742603690681434348

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743270303298658737

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1743593849858228522

https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/1742869075792167124