Laura Woods wades in to Joey Barton female pundits row with perfect “eunuch” putdown

The outspoken former Manchester City, Newcastle and QPR midfielder has seen fit to criticise female pundits working on men’s football in a series of tweets posted since Wednesday night’s Premier League fixtures

Laura Woods has snapped back at Joey Barton’s comments

Laura Woods snapped back at Joey Barton’s rant over women working in men’s football by pointing out at that the former Premier League midfielder was risking making himself a “eunuch” too.

Barton has attracted plenty of attention since Wednesday night by posting a series of tweets expressing his opinion that there are too many women working on television coverage of the men’s game.

His initial tweet read: “Women shouldn’t be talking with any kind of authority in the men’s game. Come on. Let’s be serious. It’s a completely different game. If you don’t accept that. We will always see things differently. The women’s game is thriving. Fantastic to see. I cannot take a thing they say serious in the men’s arena.” He also compared women commentating on men’s football to him talking about “knitting or netball”.

As expected and no doubt planned, that tweets provoked quite the reaction from all sides, with Barton then doubling down with several more tweets on the subject both on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.

In one, he again expressed his desire for women to solely cover women’s football, writing: “Girls to spectate and watch the far superior men players, play the game properly. I have no problem with that. None at all. We should really encourage it.

Joey Barton was sacked by Bristol Rovers last month(Ashley Crowden/JMP/REX/Shutterstock)

“They also have a fantastic sport called, Women’s football they can and should support as well. But the influencer nonsense. The takeover of comms, Co-comms and punditry stuff, it’s got to end mate. It’s becoming a joke.”

Barton also responded to several men taking issue with his comments by calling them “eunuchs”, and posted images of dolls without any genitalia to emphasis his point.

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In another tweet the former Manchester City midfielder posted a video of a young female vlogger working for City’s social media channels, writing: “I mean look at the nonsense. You give them a f****** inch… Was going to use the hashtag #Getthemout but no doubt it will be taken out of context… Out the stadiums and off the concourse’s with the influencer f****** nonsense. Men surely, enough’s enough? Someone got to say something or it won’t ever end.”

It was that tweet which prompted TNT Sports presenter Woods to get involved, with the former Sky Sports and talkSPORT host taking exception to Barton singling out the young woman.

She wrote: “Usually avoid these conversations as I don’t like adding more oxygen. But throwing young vloggers to the wolves is wrong. I started my career vlogging & I’ve always got on with Joey. He also sent me a lovely good luck message for TNT in June. Does that make him a eunuch too?”

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Barton, who is promoting a new podcast, is set to appear on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Thursday night.

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