REVEALED: Joey Barton got it WRONG with his example of bad commentary by women working on men’s football… as fans dig out Courtney Sweetman-Kirk’s words on Liverpool star’s goal – which were actually correct

Astute social media users discovered that the example Joey Barton gave to support his belief that female broadcasters should not work in a male-dominated field was incorrect.

The former Bristol Rovers manager, who remains unemployed after being sacked in October, appeared on Piers Morgan: Uncensored on Thursday night, attempting to defend his position after posting a series of incendiary misogynistic comments on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.

The 41-year-old said men who listened to women working in the men’s game needed to have their heads “checked” and went on to say their only reason for employment was because organizations had “quotas to fill and boxes to be ticked.”

In a television appearance in which he shared views that were sometimes radically contradictory, Barton was not prepared to name presenters who he felt did not meet the “journalistic standards” that female pundits and commentators. but gave an example of where he thought the commentator had gone wrong.

Speaking about the commentator during Liverpool’s Premier League match with Fulham, Barton claimed she said: “(Wataru) Endo scored through the laces.”

Joey Barton (right) gave the wrong example of bad comments to support his argument that women shouldn’t be presenters in the men’s game on Piers Morgan: Uncensored.

Barton took aim at a comment Courtney Sweetman-Kirk (left) didn’t make.

The 41-year-old sparked a barrage of misogynistic comments on Wednesday with a series of sexist posts on social media.

“He scored with the side of his foot,” Barton said. “But no one, because they were female commentators, and the female commentator called and said, ‘Wait a minute, that didn’t happen.’

The former Manchester City player said the error could affect young people who want to get an “education” by watching matches on TV and that if the errors remained “unchecked” the standard would be scrapped due to a “woke agenda” .

Moments later, Barton appeared to contradict himself again, admitting, “Whoever hasn’t made a mistake, we all make mistakes,” but showed no desire to retract his statement.

But in a video circulated on social media, Barton’s understanding of the incident was itself proven to be a mistake.

Instead of the comment Barton reported, Courtney Sweetman-Kirk – the commentator in question – merely referred to the “thru-the-laces” shot as a point of comparison.

Sweetman-Kirk (centre) previously played for the Liverpool women’s team between 2018 and 2020.

The former Bristol Rovers manager contradicted himself throughout his speech.

“How many players do you see in a moment of panic, puncturing their laces, smashing it against the crossbar?” Sweetman-Kirk wonders aloud as he listens to a replay of the Japanese midfielder’s kick.

– But no – Endo just swipes it to the upper right corner. What else is left from this game?

Following his controversial TalkTV appearance, which was widely criticized on social media, Barton was in no mood to back down from his arguments and continued the debate.

The ex-QPR player has branded popular TV presenters Laura Woods and Bianca Westwood “not brave enough” to “debate him” after he announced he was planning “2 hours of pure debate”. Unedited. – despite Westwood making a persistent appearance the night before challenging his views on the programme.

He later shared a series of posts suggesting there was a “danger” in “hiring women in a man’s game”, extending the argument to “certain roles in certain departments” rather than simply limiting the ban to broadcasting.

BBC sports pundit Alex Scott responded to criticism from the former player ahead of an interview in which she joked with a friend that they would “talk about” Barton.

Barton specifically targeted Scott as he argued that her lack of playing experience in the men’s game would make her unqualified for peer review.

But one of the targets of his rant, BBC correspondent Alex Scott, seemed unfazed and unwilling to get involved in the firestorm he had created.

On her Instagram Story, Scott appeared to poke fun at Barton’s growing rage in a video of him making jokes while commenting on an upcoming interview.

In the video, Scott (off camera) asks a co-worker, “Who are you interviewing today?”

The man in the video joked, “Actually, it could be you,” before Scott chimed in and asked, “What are we going to talk about, Joey Barton?” before going into hysterics.