“If anyone was offended,” it began, so you know yourself, not really an apology at all. Not everyone felt that tweet put an end to the matter, so at his pre match press conference, Joey issued a heartfelt sorry. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.” Joey was called upon to apologise, but instead took to Twitter to quote 13th century Persian poet Rumi, like you do: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. It is, of course, generally advisable not to use the word holocaust to describe an under-par football performance, many a gaffer getting themselves in trouble for doing so over the years - like the time Brian Laws, then Scunthorpe manager, called his team’s defending against Doncaster Rovers “as bad as the holocaust”. His players, he said after the game, had “a holocaust, a nightmare, an absolute disaster”.
Joey Barton is not unfamiliar with finding himself in water of the hot kind, and he was back in it after his Bristol Rovers side were beaten 3-1 by Newport.
