Joey Barton has accused ITV of ‘protecting up the Phillip Schofield scandal after the broadcaster launched a staunch defence of their feminine soccer pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.
The previous Newcastle United and Manchester Metropolis footballer continued his weird private campaign in opposition to the growing involvement of girls within the males’s recreation along with his most sickening opinion but on Thursday night time.
Following ITV’s protection of Crystal Palace’s FA Cup third spherical tie in opposition to Everton, the out of labor soccer supervisor in contrast Aluko, a former England worldwide, and revered co-commentator Ward to 2 of Britain’s most infamous serial killers, Fred and Rose West.
ITV responded with a forceful assertion, admonishing Barton and championing their continued promotion of girls of their protection of the game.
It learn: ‘For Joey Barton, an ex-professional participant with a major social media presence, to focus on to of our pundits, Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, with such vindictive remarks primarily based on gender and to invoke the names of serial killer in doing so is clearly contemptible and shameful on his half.
‘Soccer is for everybody.’
Gary Neville, who appeared as an analyst for ITV throughout final yr’s World Cup, applauded the assertion, and responded saying: ‘Properly executed ITV. It’s gone too far this and mentioning serial killers is kind of merely unimaginable.
‘My daughters have watched Salford Metropolis with me for 10 years and prefer to touch upon soccer, my mum was kicked out of the soccer crew ( boys within the 1960’s) and stopped taking part in as a result of mysogyny , my sister struggled for funding for her sport for years and my brother was mocked when he took over the England girls’s crew.
‘I come from a household that has fought these points for years and I’ve witnessed it first hand. All this does is simply discourage and it’s not the way in which ahead. It’s bloody onerous work for Girls to achieve sport and media as it’s with out these items.’
In response, Barton admonished Neville earlier than warning the previous Manchester United captain he would ‘get emptied’ Barton turned his ire on ITV.
‘Is that this the identical @ITV @itvfootball that attempted to cowl up Phillip Schofield… Asking for a pal’, Barton posted on his X account.
Schofield resigned from ITV with ‘quick impact’ in Could final yr after the previous This Morning presenter confessed to having an affair with a runner on the present.
The veteran 61-year-old presenter was pressured to depart the channel altogether after admitting to an ‘unwise however not unlawful’ relationship with a a lot youthful male colleague.
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