S**t Paddy Barclay says

randomname

Spotted this on twitter.

homerjay2005

ouch...i have a feeling thats going to go down well..

his account appears to have been deleted since.

Kess73

Twitter is great. It really gives idiots a chance to show themselves up for what they are.

Barclay and Holt being two that spring to mind for me. Two men that have mastered speaking from both sides of their mouth at the same time.

randomname

homerjay2005 wrote: »

ouch...i have a feeling thats going to go down well..

his account appears to have been deleted since.

Barclay said he regretted the comment but you would think he would some cop on.

Kess73

randomname wrote: »

Barclay said he regretted the comment but you would think he would some cop on.

Yep he regretted it so much that he went on to make a number of similar comments soon afterwards. Then tried to delete the comments but many had already taken screenshots of them.

randomname

Kess73 wrote: »

Yep he regretted it so much that he went on to make a number of similar comments soon afterwards. Then tried to delete the comments but many had already taken screenshots of them.

The guy is an utter goon so.

mike65

He is on (or was just on) Talksport back tracking.

kryogen

You would think people wouldnt be so ****in stupid, but they go and surprise you every time!

Maximus Alexander

You stay classy Patrick Barclay.

dfx-

Barclay is/was an excellent columnist though.

kfallon

Hopefully there will be no more croissants for PB with Brian Woolyhead on a Sunday morning now!

daithijjj

I tuned in for it on Talksport for the craic this morning. Keys and Gray tweeted last night they would ask him about it and fair play, they did, right of the bat. The squirming Barclay was something to behold, he could barely speak at one point and a direct question from Keys took him about 5 mins to get around to the tweet in the OP. Andy Gray just kept his mouth shut and was clearly uncomfortable imo. He said he regretted it.

Retard makes retarded comment on twitter, now here's Bob with the weather.

Guy:Incognito

Obviously theres no defending what Barclay said, but as a seperate issue, this constant drone of "sky are evil" is tiresome.

daithijjj

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Obviously theres no defending what Barclay said, but as a seperate issue, this constant drone of "sky are evil" is tiresome.

I dont see anyone in this thread talking about Sky.

kryogen

whats it got to do with sky?

have they been mentioned in the thread?

Guy:Incognito

daithijjj wrote: »

I dont see anyone in this thread talking about Sky.

kryogen wrote: »

whats it got to do with sky?

have they been mentioned in the thread?

The tweet Barclay was replying to.

Theres been a similar sentiment floating around here for ages too.

Jimmy Iovine

He's a bit of a fool but I remember 2 years ago at the start of the World Cup when he joined Twitter that he put one of my favourite Tweets. It was completely out of the blue.

_blank_

Do Sky not own Talksport?

kryogen

Des wrote: »

Do Sky not own Talksport?

Do they?

Well wouldnt that be a sneaky way of keeping Keys and Gray on the books eh?!

Dont know if they do or not, would have thought we would have heard about it with the uproar around the aforementioned dynamic duo?

mike65

UTV Radio own Talksport.

Ganymede Glow

Us Liverpool fans are just being paranoid. :rolleyes:

kryogen

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Us Liverpool fans are just being paranoid. :rolleyes:

Ganymede Glow

Sense the sarcasm. I was highlighting the fact that a lot of journos out there dont like us very much yet other fans call us paranoid

Paparazzo

The tweet was deleted straight away and someone forwarded a screenshot to Joey Barton, who retweeted straight away.
The equivalent to mutterering something under your breath in class, and the guy beside you telling the teacher.

kryogen

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Sense the sarcasm. I was highlighting the fact that a lot of journos out there dont like us very much yet other fans call us paranoid

Journos dont like anyone! Cept Arry Redknapp (till he doesnt succeed as England manager)

Fergie is despised, journos always making up **** and trying to cause controversy with United and heaps of other clubs, your team is far from being the only one.

Maximus Alexander

Paparazzo wrote: »

The equivalent to mutterering something under your breath in class, and the guy beside you telling the teacher.

Not really, it would be more like standing up in the middle of campus and screaming something through a megaphone, then realising it was a bad idea and trying to pretend you said nothing at all.

Mitch Connor

kryogen wrote: »

Journos dont like anyone! Cept Arry Redknapp (till he doesnt succeed as England manager)

Fergie is despised, journos always making up **** and trying to cause controversy with United and heaps of other clubs, your team is far from being the only one.

no no, they are the victims of journalistic hatred.

Paparazzo

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Not really, it would be more like standing up in the middle of campus and screaming something through a megaphone, then realising it was a bad idea and trying to pretend you said nothing at all.

Not really. Unless you follow paddy barclay and were on twitter for the couple of minutes it was up, you wouldn't have heard about it.

Ganymede Glow

kryogen wrote: »

Journos dont like anyone! Cept Arry Redknapp (till he doesnt succeed as England manager)

Fergie is despised, journos always making up **** and trying to cause controversy with United and heaps of other clubs, your team is far from being the only one.

Forgetting the tribalism between United & Liverpool for a moment, there is nothing you can say to convince me of that comment you just made. United are the media darlings and many of them are United supporters. The ones who aren't seem terrified of him.

Mitch Connor

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Forgetting the tribalism between United & Liverpool for a moment, there is nothing you can say to convince me of that comment you just made. United are the media darlings and many of them are United supporters. The ones who aren't seem terrified of him.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Un-freaking-believable!

You don't think the media love to go to town on Fergie and United?

UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!

Maximus Alexander

Paparazzo wrote: »

Not really. Unless you follow paddy barclay and were on twitter for the couple of minutes it was up, you wouldn't have heard about it.

It was up for hours. Paddy Barclay had tens of thousands of followers. And Twitter is public, you don't need to follow someone or even be logged in to read their tweets. So, wrong on all counts.

kryogen

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Forgetting the tribalism between United & Liverpool for a moment, there is nothing you can say to convince me of that comment you just made. United are the media darlings and many of them are United supporters. The ones who aren't seem terrified of him.

I genuinely have no idea how to respond to this.

Paparazzo

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Us Liverpool fans are just being paranoid. :rolleyes:

The liverpool fans saying they hoped he died in a car crash, and hoped his entire family died of cancer weren't doing themselves any favours.

citytillidie

Paparazzo wrote: »

The tweet was deleted straight away and someone forwarded a screenshot to Joey Barton, who retweeted straight away.
The equivalent to mutterering something under your breath in class, and the guy beside you telling the teacher.

Tweet was there 4 hours later I was able to see it on his time line

Screen shot in the OP is 55 mins after it was posted.

Orando Broom

Far too many modern journalists love being the story. Twitter really exposes them for the fücking twats they are. That comment should cost him his job.

daithijjj

citytillidie wrote: »

Tweet was there 4 hours later I was able to see it on his time line

Screen shot in the OP is 55 mins after it was posted.

Indeed. It was all over twitter long before Barton mentioned it.

Coillte_Bhoy

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

The tweet Barclay was replying to.

Theres been a similar sentiment floating around here for ages too.

There was no mention of sky in the tweet unless i'm missing something.

Mitch Connor

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

There was no mention of sky in the tweet unless i'm missing something.

Rupert Murdoch is mentioned in the tweet, and he owns Sky. It is not a massive leap between the initial 'everything Murdoch owns/does is evil' to 'Sky are evil'.

EDIT: Actually, not going to get into what I think he meant, not worth it as not sure.

jaykay74

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

There was no mention of sky in the tweet unless i'm missing something.

The original tweet directed at him is on about taking Murdochs cash. He works for both Sky & The Times so could be about either or both.

amiable

Joey Barton has weighed in now

''misconstrued your words, did they Patrick? Interesting for u to feel what its like on the other side of the street. How is it?''

Coillte_Bhoy

jaykay74 wrote: »

The original tweet directed at him is on about taking Murdochs cash. He works for both Sky & The Times so could be about either or both.

Exactly. It's not particularly having a go at sky

steelcityblues

I think we can add football journalists - to football players - of people who shouldn't be using Twitter.

Kirby

Get off your high horses, all of you. We all say stupid stuff occasionally the only difference being that not everything we say is documented.

It was a stupid comment to make but if you are needled repeatedly throughout your day eventually you will crack and make an arse of yourself. A person should not be judged solely on one throwaway comment to a troll on the internet.

Guy:Incognito

Paparazzo wrote: »

Not really. Unless you follow paddy barclay and were on twitter for the couple of minutes it was up, you wouldn't have heard about it.

Unless you were in the college at the time you wouldnt hear him shouting either. He still said it to an awfull lot of people in a public way,

Kirby wrote: »

Get off your high horses, all of you. We all say stupid stuff occasionally the only difference being that not everything we say is documented.
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If it was would you not be a bit more careful about what you say?

I dont know how many posts I've type out in the heat of things and deleted before hitting submit. Sometimes typing them out calms me a bit, I still dont post them though.

Kirby wrote: »

It was a stupid comment to make but if you are needled repeatedly throughout your day eventually you will crack and make an arse of yourself. A person should not be judged solely on one throwaway comment to a troll on the internet.

It was on twitter, it's not like someone was standing shouting in his face, its much easier to ignore and you have as much time as you like to relax and think about replys.

Kirby

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

If it was would you not be a bit more careful about what you say?.

The future president of the United states recently said he "didn't care about poor people". Thats a huge gaffe from somebody who has teams of people watching what he says. Politicans spend half their lives minding what they say and they make a balls of it too.

You can be as careful as you like but we all say stupid stuff. You shouldn't be hanged on it.

Sasquatch76

It's not Barclay's first time to make an irresponsible and unpleasant comment though. And he initially stood by this comment - not a sign of something said in the "heat of the moment" or whatever.

Fuhrer

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

, there is nothing you can say to convince me of that comment you just made.

Facts and evidence be damned, you have your opinion and you're sticking to it.

super_furry

Sasquatch76 wrote: »

It's not Barclay's first time to make an irresponsible and unpleasant comment though. And he initially stood by this comment - not a sign of something said in the "heat of the moment" or whatever.

Even on the Talksport piece, he insisted he'd say it again - only to someone over a table rather than on twitter.

Fuhrer

super_furry wrote: »

Even on the Talksport piece, he insisted he'd say it again - only to someone over a table rather than on twitter.

Got to admire a man who will stick by his principles, as long as no one can hear them...

monkey9

Fuhrer wrote: »

Got to admire a man who will stick by his principles, as long as no one can hear them...

What kind of principal is to bring up people dying just to make a point. F*ck him!!

Pro. F

Kirby wrote: »

Get off your high horses, all of you. We all say stupid stuff occasionally the only difference being that not everything we say is documented.

It was a stupid comment to make but if you are needled repeatedly throughout your day eventually you will crack and make an arse of yourself. A person should not be judged solely on one throwaway comment to a troll on the internet.

Everything we type here is documented. I have nearly twice as many posts on here as he has tweets (and that means a hell of a lot more words) and I've never made a horrible dig about Heysel. The same for plenty of other boards users. And as has been pointed out, he stood by the comment initially and doesn't seem to have a problem with the sentiment, only where he said it.