We all know football fans can come up with some pretty sick taunts when they’re trying to bait their rivals. David Beckham famously lost it after one too many chants about his sour-faced missus taking it up the arse, we know a few Villa songs about Dwight Yorke’s blind son that would make your blood run cold, and let’s just say that Sheffield Wednesday manager Dave Jones’s involvement in a child abuse investigation has never been forgotten by fans of any team he faces.
Generally, those who are targeted by obscene chants and threats shrug it off as the extreme end of football banter, but the provocation went a step too far in a pub in Darlington last month when a vile football-related insult sparked a brawl. The jibe? Apparently one bloke told another bloke that he looked like Joey Barton. Sick, sick bastard.
Shaun Beckwith, 21, and Maxwell McStravick, 40, came to blows after Beckworth told McStravick he looked like the Marseille footballer. Naturally, he went ape shit. Punches were thrown, headbutts were landed and insults were dished out – which ironically sounds like an average game of football involving Joey Barton.
The two men admitted in court to threatening behaviour outside of the Tap and Spile pub, Darlington, on 8th March.
They were both sentenced to a 12-month community order with 80 hours unpaid work plus £45 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.
They were also told to tweet phrases from the Big Book of Quotes they got for Christmas in a bid to sound more intelligent than the violent thugs they are. Only then will they get a real understanding of what it’s like to be a complete arsehole like Joey Barton.
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