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• JOEY BARTON NAMED STRAIGHT ALLY OF THE YEAR AT BRA'S 'GAY OSRS'
• JOEY BARTON: 'OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER WH 10 YEARS'
• JOEY BARTON SHOULD BE FOOTBALL'S GAY HERO - MART SAMUEL
• SOCCER WRER FANTASIZ ABOUT JOEY BARTON BEG GAY, BEE HE DPIS JOEY BARTON
• QPR MIDFIELR JOEY BARTON NOMATED FOR 'GAY OSR' AFTER WORKG TO ERADITE HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALL
• COLUMNIST SAYS ENGLISH SOCCER PLAYER JOEY BARTON SHOULD E AS GAY
• GAY FOOTBALL GROUP CRICISE DAILY MAIL OVER JOEY BARTON ARTICLE
• DAILY MAIL FOOTBALL WRER MART SAMUEL THKS THAT JOEY BARTON SHOULD COME OUT AS BEG GAY.
• JOEY BARTON: GAY FOOTBALLERS WOULD FACE DISCRIMATN

JOEY BARTON NAMED STRAIGHT ALLY OF THE YEAR AT BRA'S 'GAY OSRS'

The QPR midfielr has endured a ntroversial existence on the football field but has been fightg to kick homophobia out of footballAward wner: QPR midfielr Barton claimed a major award at the 'gay Osrs'Queens Park Rangers midfielr Joey Barton has been award the veted Straight Ally of the Year gong at the Out In The Cy & G3 Magaze Awards on Friday eveng.

The glzy ceremony, dubbed Bra's 'gay Osrs' took place at London's Landmark Hotel. Barton, the former Marseille, Newstle and Manchter Cy midfielr, has been hailed havg fought to eradite homophobia om football and was regnised for his efforts by rears of the popular gay magaz.

The QPR star was prented wh his award by TV prenter Pl O'Grady, havg attend the awards the pany of his gay uncle, Tom Barton. "I am proud to support mpaigns aimed at eraditg homophobia om football and I will ntue to do so, " said Barton upon receivg his award. "My uncle Tom is gay, and he's here wh me tonight.

JOEY BARTON: 'OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER WH 10 YEARS'

Amal Fashanu, niece of Jt Fashanu, the only ever openly gay Brish profsnal footballer wants to know why no gay player has followed her uncle's boots over 20 's Park Rangers pta, Joey Barton has said there is no doubt his md that wh the next 10 years there will be an openly gay out more Bra's Gay Footballers, which will be broadst on Monday 30 January at 21:00 GMT on BBC Three. Gay hero? Step forward Joey Barton Updated: 21:31 BST, 5 December 2012 Could jt one footballer please e out and be gay, so everybody n be really ol about and the sport n get on wh s life?

Rugby, cricket, they’ve all had their gay watershed moment. Man of the moment: Joey Barton is a sensive soul who adds a French twist to his English words And until football do, too, will ntue to be prumed that the sport has not evolved enough to handle male homosexualy. (Hope Powell, the manager of England’s women, has been openly gay for years, whout ment, yet that do not seem to unt.

JOEY BARTON SHOULD BE FOOTBALL'S GAY HERO - MART SAMUEL

)The gay prsure group, Stonewall, has lled aga for football to tackle s ‘culture of fear’, while Anrs Lgaard, the Manchter Uned goalkeeper, has said that football needs a ‘gay hero’ here’s a thought. Why not e out as gay? As far as we know, there's been no ditn that English soccer player Joey Barton is gay.

That's why Daily Mail lumnist Mart Samuel fds so appealg to image Barton g out as homosexual, bee.... The gay prsure group, Stonewall, has lled aga for football to tackle s ‘culture of fear', while Anrs Lgaard, the Manchter Uned goalkeeper, has said that football needs a ‘gay hero' here's a thought. The first is that gay-rights supporters are lamentg the absence of any out soccer players, so 's funny to thk of someone shuttg them up by pretendg to be gay even if he's not, bee g out is basilly a PR move nowadays.

Hey, who says Barton isn't gay? Bee French people are totally gay, too! The ntroversial midfielr is shortlisted for an award by 'Out the Cy' magaze for his efforts to tackle prejudiceGay in: Barton has been shortlisted for an award by gay liftyle magaze Out the CyQueens Park Rangers midfielr Joey Barton has been nomated for a 'Gay Osr' by rears of a natnal gay liftyle magaze.

SOCCER WRER FANTASIZ ABOUT JOEY BARTON BEG GAY, BEE HE DPIS JOEY BARTON

The QPR man has fought to try and eradite homophobia throughout football, and is beg regnised for his efforts by Out the Cy magaze. "Joey Barton's work to tackle homophobia football is highly mendable so is no surprise that he has been short-listed, " she said. " Former Leeds Uned wger Robbie Rogers me out as gay last year, but claimed that he had received no ntact om fellow footballers about an anti-homophobia mpaign last month.

In a really weird and offensive lumn, Mart Samuel of the London Daily Mail says that Joey Barton of the English Premier League (on loan to a French league) should e out as gay. As I said, 's a weird lumn, but 's pissed off a group tryg to end homophobia soccer.

"Could jt one footballer please e out and be gay, so everybody n be really ol about and the sport n get on wh s life? Beg openly gay would allow Barton to get away wh anythg, Samuel reasons: "Well, of urse he put his cigar out that bloke’s face, Gary. " He also mocked Barton's French accent, sce 's -- you know -- kd of gay.

QPR MIDFIELR JOEY BARTON NOMATED FOR 'GAY OSR' AFTER WORKG TO ERADITE HOMOPHOBIA FOOTBALL

Earlier this year, Barton revealed that he has a gay uncle and supports an openly gay player the sport.

"There is no doubt my md that the next 10 years we have an openly gay footballer, ” he told the BBC. The Gay Football Supporters Network was livid wh Samuel's lumn. “It do nothg to addrs the very real experienc of homophobia we see football on a regular basis.

The Gay Football Supporters Network (GSFN) has cricised the Daily Mail for publishg an article suggtg footballer Joey Barton would make a suable “gay hero” for the sport, bee trivialis the bate about homophobia football. At the start of the year, Barton was praised for takg part a BBC Three documentary about the lack of openly gay footballers.

COLUMNIST SAYS ENGLISH SOCCER PLAYER JOEY BARTON SHOULD E AS GAY

He cricised the “archaic” views of some ach wh the dtry and said was a subject close to heart bee his uncle is gay.

Last week, Manchter Uned goalkeeper Anrs Lgaard urged gay players to e out of the closet bee “gay people need a hero”.

Former England ternatnal Gareth Southgate add that his opn would not be a problem for gay footballers to be accepted the drsg room. Barton has voted to ban gay adoptns Washgton, D.

GAY FOOTBALL GROUP CRICISE DAILY MAIL OVER JOEY BARTON ARTICLE

He has voted agast cludg anti-gay crim unr feral hate-crim protectn. So is there somethg his track rerd as a legislator — agast fay planng, agast fai for gay people, agast abortn, agast hate-crime protectn, agast wdls — that is signifintly ntradicted by his takg a picture of himself starg at his penis and giftg the penis photo somehow to a woman not his wife? The penis picture do not mean that he is not a gay-hater.

Maybe this requir the abily to hold more than one thought md at one time (not sure), but I thk we should be able to see that one n take a picture of one’s self starg at one’s penis and also hate gay people. The penis do not ntradict the homophobia although I n see how one might get nfed.

In one of the most potls and ridiculo piec of journalism that you will see this year The Daily Mail football wrer Mart Samuel has suggted that Marseille's on loan midfielr Joey Barton should e out as beg gay. Samuel suggts that Barton g out as gay would be the ultimate move his qut to be rpected tellectually and he uld also be the 'gay hero' that Anrs Lgaard suggted that football need.

DAILY MAIL FOOTBALL WRER MART SAMUEL THKS THAT JOEY BARTON SHOULD COME OUT AS BEG GAY.

Not done there he took a swipe at Barton's 'Franglais' accent lculatg that already had him 50% of the way if he did want to bee gay.

JOEY BARTON: GAY FOOTBALLERS WOULD FACE DISCRIMATN

Paris:Paris Sat Germa and gay rights mpaigners on Wednday cricised ntroversial English midfielr Joey Barton after he sulted Paris Sat-Germa and Brazil pta Thiago Silva on, who is currently on loan at Ligue 1 club Marseille om Queen's Park Rangers, took to Twter to scribe Silva as a "psy" and "a overweight ladyboy" immediately issued a statement dubbg Barton's ments "unacceptable" Parisians observed that "unacceptable words directed at Paris Sat Germa player Thiago Silva have been ed by Olympique Marseille player Joey Barton. "Furthermore: "Olympique Marseille and Joey Barton offer their apologi to Thiago Silva and to his club for the misplaced ments ma by (our) English player on social media over the past 36 hours, " the club sults me after Silva ially cricised Barton an terview wh L'Equipe published on a statement, Paris Foot Gay, an amatr club wh a large number of gay players who mpaign agast homophobia football and society as a whole, said that Barton "undoubtedly based his remarks on stereotyp lkg Brazil to transsexualism. ""Paris Foot Gay nsirs that such vulgar, discrimatory and unfunny remarks are unacceptable g om people the public eye, " the statement ntued.

"Paris Foot Gay add that the LFP, who n the French top flight, will take disciplary actn agast Barton for his has a chequered past, cludg a spell prison for asslt and a sendg-off on the fal day of the last Premier League season for elbowg Carlos Tevez and kickg Serg Aguero QPR's 3-2 feat to Manchter cint saw him hand a 12-match ban, but sce arrivg France his on-field behavur has been largely unremarkable, save for a red rd Marseille's 1-0 feat to Nancy mentned this articleFootball Bayern Munchen Barcelona Arsenal Marseille Paris SG AC Milan Zlatan Ibrahimovic Joey Barton. Central midfielr and Queens Park Rangers pta Joey Barton attributed gay profsnal footballers’ fear of g out to managers’ discrimatn. Barton told a BBC3 documentary: “Certa managers will discrimate, ” and “the archaic figur thk if they had a gay footballer there would be all kds of shenanigans the drsg room.

Max Clifford, who has apparently known several gay players too ightened to e out, said: “When they have e to me to protect their inty, they have ma very clear that their reer would be fished if they were known to be gay. Philipp Lahm, the German football pta, was also quoted to have said “society is not ready for gay footballers.