Joey Barton has finally lifted the lid on his final game in Scotland- a 5-1 hammering from Celtic.
All summer long the former Burnley star had been telling the media that he was going to boss Scottish football, put Scott Brown in his place and end Celtic’s five year run as champions.
Other than a couple of promotions to the EPL Barton hasn’t won a thing in his career which was broken for a 67 day stretch inside HM Prison Strangeways.
Signing the midfielder was viewed as the critical move to bring success to Ibrox with the gullibles filling social media with their claims and predictions for the season ahead.
On the opening day of the season Hamilton drew 1-1 at Ibrox with Ali Crawford dominating Barton throughout.
September 10 was derby day. Reality met the gobby no-mark, he never played again for the tribute act with the image of former city trader Mark Warburton left in tatters after a six goal thriller.
Covering his brief Ibrox stay in a podcast the Daily Record reports Barton saying:
We’re playing Celtic at Celtic Park. I’ve said I’m going to be the best player in Scotland and all eyes are on me and Scott Brown.
We did team shape on Thursday. Andy Halliday was having something to eat later that night and he says, ‘I’m not playing tomorrow’.
He was in the team shape on the Thursday, so we’ve had all this preparation, so why is he changing the team on the Friday? We found out on the Saturday that Warbs was concerned the team had been leaked, so he decided to change it but he didn’t tell Andy – he texted him, despite us all being in the hotel.
Andy’s a mad Rangers man and a good lad. He was clearly upset. It was just amateur hour everywhere.
We turn up at the stadium and run the gauntlet of the Celtic fans. I know we’re going to lose the game because of the team selection. It’s me, Josh Windass and Niko Kranjcar in centre midfield against Scott Brown, Nir Bitton and Callum McGregor.
Josh and Niko are good players but not ones you really want in the trenches with you at Parkhead. You want warhorses.
I knew all the sh** I was going to get because we weren’t winning that game. Before the game Kenny Miller is having a go. Andy’s trying to galvanise the troops. I look to my right and there’s Warburton shaking. He was supposed to be the leader and he’s shaking like a dog having a sh**.
“I remember thinking, ‘Don’t get sent off’. My mindset was not about winning. It was not getting sent off.”
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Barton stayed on the pitch, barely got a touch of the ball as Celtic burst his bubble with a 5-1 win.
After a couple of club suspensions he got his pay off to return to Burnley, in February Warbs was informed by email that he had resigned.
