‘Laughed out of Glasgow’ ‘you ran away with your tail between your legs’ ‘one of the biggest clowns’ Joey Barton put back in his box after Ibrox tweet

Celtic fans were all over a tweet from Joey Barton as the Bristol Rovers boss showed a rare interest in Scottish football.

Yesterday’s result at Ibrox had them crawling out of the woodwork with Barton desperate to associate himself with success, even the We Beat The Champions In A Dead Rubber Trophy, after a career that peaked by twice winning promotion from the Championship.

Back in the summer of 2016 the self-proclaimed superstar was coming to Scotland to boss it as part of the Mark Warburton Revolution, so confident was he that he missed the start of pre-season training to continue with media work at Euro 2016 in France.

Scott Brown and Brendan Rodgers were going to be put in their place as the gobby Scouser and Warbo laid out their plans for domination.

After League Cup appearances in home wins over Annan and Stranraer his SPFL debut resulted in a disappointing 1-1 draw at home to Hamilton Accies.

On September 10 he visited Celtic Park for his fifth and final SPFL match. Despite having team-mates like Nicky Kranjcar, Philip Senderos, Barrie McKay, Josh Windass and James Tavernier the visitors were chasing shadows as Celtic won 5-1. Barton never played again in Scotland.

His designer coffee machine was removed from Murray Park, after two club suspensions he got his pay off and returned to Burnley.

After being caught making 1,260 football related bets he was given a 15 month suspension by the FA which effectively ended his playing career.

In the season just finished Bristol Rovers finished 17th, four places behind Fleetwood Town.

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