The video lasts around 15 minutes, in which Eniola Aluko talks about her discomfort with a serious expression and emotional words. “I was really scared this week. I didn’t leave my house until Friday and I’m abroad now,” said the 36-year-old. Nigerian-born Aluko played 107 international matches for England and Great Britain between 2004 and 2012 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire by Prince William a few weeks ago. Aluko also works as a football expert for the British broadcaster ITV, which is basically the starting point for her now rather messy situation.
Flashback, January 4th: Aluko and former professional player Lucy Ward were covering the FA Cup third round game between Crystal Palace and Everton when a storm began to brew above them. The English ex-professional Joey Barton (including Manchester City, Newcastle United, Queens Park Ranger, Burnley FC), who has one international match (substitution against Spain in February 2007), did not like their analysis and poisoned him wildly and mercilessly could no longer be surprising, because the 41-year-old is a repeat offender in the foul-mouthed profession.
Even as a player he was a brutal bully. For example, he once pushed a cigar into the eye of a youth player at a Christmas party. In May 2007 he was suspended by his club Manchester City because he beat his teammate Ousmane Dabo to the point of hospitalization during training. In December of that year, Barton was arrested in central Liverpool along with a 19-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman. They had beaten up a passer-by at a bus stop and were filmed by a surveillance camera. He had to go to prison for that.
Joey Barton
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In recent months, Barton has made sexist insults to several former players, pundits and commentators involved in reporting and analyzing men’s football. He seems to have made this his mission; he is as relentless as he is relentless. His credo, publicly and well documented by him: “Women stay in women’s football. Men stay in men’s football. Very easy.”
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But what he now said about Aluko and Ward was by no means easy to dismiss. On the contrary. Barton claimed the station had reached a “new low”, but the tirade eventually turned crude when Barton compared Aluko and Ward to serial killers Fred and Rose West. The Wests murdered twelve women and young girls over the course of 20 years. Fred took his own life before being tried, while Rose was sentenced to life in prison. She is still in prison at the age of 70.
“Keep her away from TV. They’re ruining the game for all of us.”
The disaster then began. First, the broadcaster ITV stepped into the breach for its two experts. A post on Instagram said: “For Joey Barton, a former professional player with a significant social media presence, to attack two of our experts, Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, with such vindictive comments based on their gender and naming serial killers , is clearly despicable and shameful for him.”
Barton didn’t let that go. “Shut up, you damn idiots,” he raged via They’re ruining the game for all of us. This is what happens when you force unqualified, unprepared, token people on us. I’m going to call them all serial killers from now on. In every clip you motherfuckers put out. We’re all fed up with your woke and diversity, equality and inclusion bullshit.”
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It went on like this for days, blow after blow, the wave of indignation reaching roughly the level of Barton’s outbursts of anger – until Aluko spoke up. She was “open and honest and I’m human and I have to admit that I was scared this week.” She says it’s important to note “that online abuse has a direct impact on your safety and how you feel, how safe you feel in real life.”
She “felt threatened. I felt like something was going to happen to me. And I don’t say this to make anyone feel sorry for me. I say this so that people understand the reality and impact of hate speech, racism, sexism and misogyny on us women in sports and sports reporting. They create a culture in which people no longer want to go to work, in which they no longer want to leave their house, in which they feel threatened. Of course, this also has a big impact on mental health.”
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She recalled the case of her colleague Caroline Flack. The presenter committed suicide in February 2020, “mainly because of the insults she was subjected to online,” as Aluko said. She indicated that she wanted to take legal action against Barton. “If you make racist, sexist or misogynistic comments and threaten people online, there are laws that regulate that behavior, so it’s not free speech,” she said. That would “have consequences. Last week I consulted with lawyers and a decision was made on how to proceed,” she said: “When will we finally understand that this has to stop? Sexism, racism, misogyny are not opinions. This is not freedom of speech. It’s against the law. As simple as that.”
UK Sports Minister Stuart Andrew has now vowed to put pressure on social media companies following Barton’s “dangerous and disgusting comments”. He told a Department for Culture, Media and Sport committee on Tuesday: “These are dangerous comments that open the door to abuse and that is unacceptable.”
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But Barton doesn’t seem to be impressed in the least. On Wednesday morning he published a strong response to Aluko’s video on I was waiting for the victim card to be played. Eni, I’m sorry darling, you’re a terrible commenter. You’re deaf, you can’t count and, above all, you have next to no idea about men’s football. …Everyone laughs at you. Not only me.”
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The video lasts around 15 minutes, in which Eniola Aluko talks about her discomfort with a serious expression and emotional words. “I was really scared this week. I didn’t leave my house until Friday and I’m abroad now,” said the 36-year-old. Nigerian-born Aluko played 107 international matches for England and Great Britain between 2004 and 2012 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire by Prince William a few weeks ago. Aluko also works as a football expert for the British broadcaster ITV, which is basically the starting point for her now rather messy situation.
Flashback, January 4th: Aluko and former professional player Lucy Ward were covering the FA Cup third round game between Crystal Palace and Everton when a storm began to brew above them. The English ex-professional Joey Barton (including Manchester City, Newcastle United, Queens Park Ranger, Burnley FC), who has one international match (substitution against Spain in February 2007), did not like their analysis and poisoned him wildly and mercilessly could no longer be surprising, because the 41-year-old is a repeat offender in the foul-mouthed profession.
Even as a player he was a brutal bully. For example, he once pushed a cigar into the eye of a youth player at a Christmas party. In May 2007 he was suspended by his club Manchester City because he beat his teammate Ousmane Dabo to the point of hospitalization during training. In December of that year, Barton was arrested in central Liverpool along with a 19-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman. They had beaten up a passer-by at a bus stop and were filmed by a surveillance camera. He had to go to prison for that.
Joey Barton
Quelle: Getty Images/Dan Mullan
In recent months, Barton has made sexist insults to several former players, pundits and commentators involved in reporting and analyzing men’s football. He seems to have made this his mission; he is as relentless as he is relentless. His credo, publicly and well documented by him: “Women stay in women’s football. Men stay in men’s football. Very easy.”
also read
But what he now said about Aluko and Ward was by no means easy to dismiss. On the contrary. Barton claimed the station had reached a “new low”, but the tirade eventually turned crude when Barton compared Aluko and Ward to serial killers Fred and Rose West. The Wests murdered twelve women and young girls over the course of 20 years. Fred took his own life before being tried, while Rose was sentenced to life in prison. She is still in prison at the age of 70.
“Keep her away from TV. They’re ruining the game for all of us.”
The disaster then began. First, the broadcaster ITV stepped into the breach for its two experts. A post on Instagram said: “For Joey Barton, a former professional player with a significant social media presence, to attack two of our experts, Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, with such vindictive comments based on their gender and naming serial killers , is clearly despicable and shameful for him.”
Barton didn’t let that go. “Shut up, you damn idiots,” he raged via They’re ruining the game for all of us. This is what happens when you force unqualified, unprepared, token people on us. I’m going to call them all serial killers from now on. In every clip you motherfuckers put out. We’re all fed up with your woke and diversity, equality and inclusion bullshit.”
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It went on like this for days, blow after blow, the wave of indignation reaching roughly the level of Barton’s outbursts of anger – until Aluko spoke up. She was “open and honest and I’m human and I have to admit that I was scared this week.” She says it’s important to note “that online abuse has a direct impact on your safety and how you feel, how safe you feel in real life.”
She “felt threatened. I felt like something was going to happen to me. And I don’t say this to make anyone feel sorry for me. I say this so that people understand the reality and impact of hate speech, racism, sexism and misogyny on us women in sports and sports reporting. They create a culture in which people no longer want to go to work, in which they no longer want to leave their house, in which they feel threatened. Of course, this also has a big impact on mental health.”
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She recalled the case of her colleague Caroline Flack. The presenter committed suicide in February 2020, “mainly because of the insults she was subjected to online,” as Aluko said. She indicated that she wanted to take legal action against Barton. “If you make racist, sexist or misogynistic comments and threaten people online, there are laws that regulate that behavior, so it’s not free speech,” she said. That would “have consequences. Last week I consulted with lawyers and a decision was made on how to proceed,” she said: “When will we finally understand that this has to stop? Sexism, racism, misogyny are not opinions. This is not freedom of speech. It’s against the law. As simple as that.”
UK Sports Minister Stuart Andrew has now vowed to put pressure on social media companies following Barton’s “dangerous and disgusting comments”. He told a Department for Culture, Media and Sport committee on Tuesday: “These are dangerous comments that open the door to abuse and that is unacceptable.”
also read
But Barton doesn’t seem to be impressed in the least. On Wednesday morning he published a strong response to Aluko’s video on I was waiting for the victim card to be played. Eni, I’m sorry darling, you’re a terrible commenter. You’re deaf, you can’t count and, above all, you have next to no idea about men’s football. …Everyone laughs at you. Not only me.”
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