– Have you heard or read anything stupider? It deserves no further comment. That’s what Viking player and football expert for news, Kristoffer Løkberg, says. Carl-Erik Torp also struggles to take Barton’s opinions seriously. – Immediately I think that it falls on its own unreasonableness. It’s a disc boom. To separate ladies from having an opinion about men’s football is too easy, says Torp. He is clear that knowledge, competence and experience are what count, not your gender. In three posts, Joey Barton came down hard on women and their role in men’s football on X Wednesday night. “Women should not speak about men’s games with any kind of authority. Come on. Let’s be serious. It’s a completely different game. If you do not accept it. We will always see things differently. Women’s football is flourishing. Fantastic to see. I can’t take anything they say in the men’s arena seriously.” Photo: Screenshot from X Barton has played 269 games in the Premier League for Manchester City, Newcastle, Queens Park Rangers and Burnley. The midfielder was known as a troublemaker and has, among other things, five red cards in the Premier League. The 41-year-old also won one international match for England in 2007, and in recent years has coached respectively Fleetwood Town and Bristol Rovers further down the English division system. TROUBLE: Throughout his career, Joey Barton received a lot of attention for his behavior on the field. Here he is in a clinch with Gervinho. Photo: NIGEL RODDIS / Reuters – Sitting at home in his fart room and bored Wednesday night included six games in the Premier League and Barton wrote further: “Any man who listens to female commentators or co-commentators needs to get his head checked… ». Photo: Screenshot from X – It seems that he is trying to provoke. He is a loose cannon and always has been. It is possible that he had a bad moment and sat at home in his fart room and was bored, says news’s football expert Carl-Erik Torp. news’s football expert and former footballer Carl-Erik Torp. Photo: Birk Pessl-Kleiven / news Barton continued in the same track on Thursday morning. In new messages on X, he emphasizes that he stands by what he wrote the night before. At the same time, he compares the fact that a woman thinks something about men’s football, with him having to think something about knitting or netball. news has tried to get an answer from Barton regarding the criticism, but has not yet received an answer. – It’s a disaster TV 2’s sports commentator Mina Finstad Berg is fed up by what she reads. – His possible points disappear a bit in frivolous comments. It makes it hard to take it seriously. It’s strange that someone can get so violently upset over women who think something about men’s football, says Berg. She points out that there are a whole bunch of men who comment and train at a higher level than they have played themselves. TV 2’s sports commentator Mina Finstad Berg. Photo: TV 2 Øyvind Ganesh Eknes / TV 2 – Claiming that you must have played at a high level to make a statement is old-fashioned. Especially in England, I think many of those who have played at a high level are the least interesting football commentators, says Berg. Fears that the attitudes apply to many Although neither Finstad Berg nor Torp can understand Barton’s points, they fear that there are some who stand behind his opinions. – Unfortunately, we live in a society where many agree with what he writes and will be fired up by this. The problem is that there are too few women who work with sports on TV. It has been that way for years. It is an equality job that is not finished. This shows something quite clearly, says Torp. – If there are attitudes that apply to many people, it’s terribly awkward. There are probably some who think along these lines, but there are fewer than before. People have become more used to women commenting on football on TV, says Berg. Berg does not care about such attitudes anymore. She still thinks of her female colleagues who work with football in England. – This is a repetition of things many women have heard before. Fortunately, such blowouts are met with some countermeasures, which makes it visible that we have come further.
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