Yep. If Joey Barton kept his gob shut he'd be a good old fashioned 'shithouse'.......bit like Robbie Savage. Hard players who take on the villain roles. Football needs the bad guys.
I watch football to be entertained.......they should be the closest thing I have to a modern day gladiator. They get paid tens and hundreds of thousands of pounds A WEEK......they're bodies should be pushed and punished to the edge and beyond of physical endurance. If my goalie wanted to play on after being knocked out I'd cheer the roof off the ground for him because he's putting himself on the line for me and my club and so he should for the 'danger money' he's being paid.
I want to see my team coming off the park bleeding and throwing up they've put so much in. I want to see Duncan Ferguson knock the living **** out of Pascal Chimbonda and strangle the life out of Stefan Freund because he's that wound up. I want to see players riling the crowd up when they take a corner.
And the absence of all this is why I barely give a @*!# about the team I've supported for 31 years. Football is dying because the legends don't exist, the players are boring, overpaid, weak minded, weak bodied, plebs who have no endearment to the common man.