THEY JUST CANโT help themselves, Neil Warnock and Joey Barton. You would have thought that once they parted ways from QPR then they act like civilised, grown professional men who could refrain from taking pot shots at each other. Nope.
At the risk of some childish finger pointing; Warnock started it. Telling Sky sports yesterday,
โIt would have been difficult to resist because people get on the phone and tweet and itโs almost like slowly poisoning somebody from outside the club and, no doubt, from within the club as well.
โItโs a dangerous precedent. If you let players talk to the chairman but, you know, you canโt stop tweeting.โ
Citing Twitter as a contributing factor in his sacking proved to be a red rag to a bull for Barton, who has made infinitlley more headlines for his tweets than his tekkers this season. The midfielder lifted up his laptop and bashed out:
โActually embarrassed at what iโve just seen on sky sports news #cringeingโ
Today, Barton had another swipe after Warnock suggested the once capped English international had too much to say for himself, Barton posted this:
And that was swiftly followed by another unveiled dig at the old boss.
It is a remarkable and public breakdown of a relationship between two men who had been figureheads of QPR until recently. All the more so because Warnock, not only signed Barton after he was cut adrift by Newcastle, but instantly made him club captain.
However, as both characters are the easily-riled sort, this was always going to be likely when one decided to stir the pot.
This could run and run.
Kidney is not going to play OConnell etc against Russia anyway. Team will be : McCourt Cronin Buckley Cullen Ryan Heaslip Leamy Jennings Boss Wallace McFadden Bowe Trimble Earls and Kearney ! I thinkรฎ
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