If he has mental issues then everybody around him should be telling him to shut up. Stop talking in the press, stop writing books, stop thrusting himself into the limelight by being a dick head and just. play. football.
Barton is a funny one. He often talks a lot of sense. He appears intelligent, he's articulate and self-aware. Which is pretty rare in the football world.
Then he goes an behaves like an absolute moron for the millionth time and all is undone.
The man is not worth listening to because the...