1. One of the things Moyes gets very right is team spirit - Barton is an individualist playing a team game. He's split every dressing room he's ever been in.

2. He's turned down every opportunity he's been given and the only guarantee you'll ever get from Barton is he's guaranteed to fuck up again.

3. His use of twitter. Most footballers dabble but our Joey specialises in using it to wind people up - I can't imagine Moyes putting up with that.

No, no... absolutely no

Past his best and probably not good enough for the Goodison bench.

How many last chances has he had now?

He would have to change a lot, starting with his Tweets.

Cannot see it I'm afraid.

He can have a pint in the black horse with Andy van der meyde, but that's the nearest he should get to Goodison.

He probably has one more chance to save his career and I think that Everton could give him that chance.

Joey Barton would almost certainly fuck up and give Moyes some shit... and then he'll be dropped quicker than you can say "isn't that your car there Royston?" and become a very expensive, very disruptive bench warmer

6 words that will never leave my mouth.

Amusing wind up Andy.

I could just see it now. He'd ditch Twitter and he'd be on here spreading his pseudo intellectual garbage and treating Morrisey lyrics like Shakespeare.

Unfortunately you've used your real name (or have you...?) which may affect your credibility in discussions people do take seriously.

Never. Never. Never.

I would question your Evertonian credentials if I hadn't read so many of your other posts Andy. So come on, say sorry, or tell us who stole your log in details.

"Morag, de yer ken a guy named Nietzsche? Yon daft boy Barton's goan on aboot him again on that twitting webnet thing. I have a feelin' he's a right-back wi' the German 3rd division side Slipslöppen Slydde"

I'd rather lick Steven Gerrard's puckered arsehole than sign Barton...

Disgrace of a player, disgrace of a man. He should be sacked and charged with assault.

If Im honest though.. I can see why it maybe quite tempting to stick Tevez on his arse, then stick his Argie mate on his arse.. and its a shame Balotelli had second thoughts about running onto the pitch..
Dunc got a stretch for less remember !

The handful of people who suggest Joey Barton is actually some kind of misunderstood intellectual are probably the only fuckwits on earth ever to buy this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brookside-Jimmy-Corkhill-Story/dp/0752208462

"Brookside: The Jimmy Corkhill Story" - A novelization featuring the story of Jimmy Corkhill, a central character in Channel 4's soap opera, "Brookside". His life is one of shady dealings, robbery, murder and drug addiction.

Dostoevsky pales in comparison Joey lad.

The fact that he goes on Twitter pretending (or believing) to be some kind of modern day intellectual gives you the insight you need into his warped and deluded persona

A fucked up, deluded, violent, disruptive thug - and for that reason I'm out

But it is still a no way.

And can someone please tell me why Carroll was not sent off for his reaction to a foul when he put his hands on the guys neck and threw him to the ground.

Oh and one last comment on the MOTD. Rightly Lineker said it was a strange season as the little clubs often beat the big clubs. Too right, those reds beat us 3 times.

Barton is a destructive, disruptive influence. We have very little money at present. Let's spend it wisely. Barton? Never.

The disadvantages are:

1) It is more than probable he will bring shame on the club.
2) His wages will be high.

Personally, I cannot stand the deluded fool. I think he is a little evil racist bastard from a family of evil racist bastards and wouldn't let him have the privilege of wearing the shirt.

5 minutes later he was sat on the touchline crying and walked over to the other lad and couldn't apologise enough.

I hate to say it but the lad is unhinged. Real Jeckyll and Hyde.

We shouldn't go anywhere near him.

Phil, that's not a very good argument even before you remember Barton getting Gervinho sent off last August. How can he be so indignant about something he does himself and then defends afterwards?

I don't want to bring my lad up looking up to a mindless, overpaid thug like him

I love Everton to bits but some things I value a bit more than cheering on someone in a blue shirt who I despise.

Nasty charachter but sometimes you need them type of players, Cahill is the same, niggly little bastard who puts players off their game by little fouls here and there.

Tthe one thing if he ever signed for us would be for Moyes to get his twatter account cancelled. he needs to shut the fuck up.

A Midfield trio of Cahill, Barton and Neville.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

He says he won't reveal the name of the club (something about the club's 'first rule' is you don't talk about it)

But the main reason I would'nt touch him with a bargepole is he is just not very good at football which is what he is supposed to do.

Tevez made a right meal of a bit of a tangle and then, once he knew he was off, he tried to 'do' City's best player to give his side a better chance of staying up.

Nothing you don't see on any given park on any given Sunday.

I don't want him at Everton but all this faux outrage makes me laugh, or cringe.

Joey Barton, and yes I agree he has been pure poison, might change. I believe that his best chance of doing that is at Everton. It won't happen, the outcry would be too great and I respect the views of those who would find his signing utterly unpalatable. Someone might benefit from him, I just ask why not us?

There seems to be a lot of concern about his cretinous, toe curling twitter stuff. Being thick, and Joey Barton by all accounts is really thick, is not a crime. If Joey Barton goes elsewhere and fucks up again then, and feel free to remind me, I will eat a large helping of humble pie.

Tevez lashed out first, and then made a meal of it when Barton retaliated. Lescott pushed Barton in the face as he was going off, Kompany ran over to him and had a go, as did Balotelli.

Wouldn't have minded him a couple of seasons ago, not now though.

Balotelli's official twitter is full of abuse for Barton. Anyone on there add Mario and have a look at his tweets, they are comic genius!

How about pairing him up with Diouf.....? It might just work......!

The sun is shining and we're discussing inconsequential shit on TW....... Aaaaaah.... The closed season is most definitely here!

Thank God for beer.

Tevezs was climbing all over him, Barton gives him an old fashioned 'get lost mate' and we know the rest. I'm not too bothered with Barton's reaction, I think Tevezs and Aguerros were far worse, where he let's himself down is by not putting his hands up and saying fair cop and leaving the field. Then he gets his hands on an I-phone and makes things 10 times worse. He lives, breathes, votes and shops in the Land of the Nutter.

Terrific post.

The High Horse Brigade need to watch a replay of the recent State of Origin match between Queensland & NSW, in which a mass brawl, (and a proper one too) broke out.

The result? A quick sin-binning, and like real men do, they just got on with the match.

Post-game there was a glaring absence of hysteria concerning the incident, no shrill calls for the players concerned to receive stiff penalties or staggeringly disproportionate fines; and certainly no smug condescension from fans of other clubs via the internet afterwards.

Barton's a toe-rag. He's destructive. Big deal.

Good enough for Everton? I don't even rate him as a player anymore, and could frankly give two hoots about the man's character.

As I would any decent player who wasn't a murderer, rapist etc (incidently I'd give Drenthe another go on the same basis).

Selling your soul to the devil is still cheaper than Kenwright's asking price.

What would be the point getting a centre midfielder anyway, as well as a horrible dirty twat like Barton.

What annoys me about him is he has been given enough chances. He's done multiple things on and off the pitch. I'd just sack him off the football pitch all together.

On 5 live now, Stephen Nolan is hosting a debate as to whether Luke McCormack, the goalie who killed 2 kids when he was pissed up, should be allowed to continue his career with Swindon Town upon his release next month.

And there's outrage. Apparently, any other lag can continue to do whatever when released. But a pro footballer? Not at all.

FFS he's a stinking pisshead. Have you got a valve missing?

I have thought of e-mailing Michael Kenrick and asking him if this thread could somehow vanish. But... I'll take it on the chin. First of all may I say that my post was genuine: no wind-up, no ulterior motive. I believe that Barton's punishment was out of proportion to his crime. However, I cannot defend what I have just seen. The only thing I can offer in defence is that, hearing about appalling behaviour is a long way from seeing it.

,There's a player revered by many inside GP that was ten times more violent that Barton and ten times the liability on the pitch.

No need to be embarrassed as it appears football has sunk low enough to see fit to embrace sex cases, racists and murderers for the sake of saving a few quid.

People have a right to earn a living and if football's your trade then that will come with a public outcry that's part jealousy and part revulsion at the money involved.

The fact is Barton hasn't done anything lower than attacking an innocent man in a bar because he wouldn't play a song you like, I doubt any would refuse Gerrard if he was on a free.