VIDEO: Football’s favourite loudmouth Joey Barton reads mean tweets

“It’s like Joey Barton just discovered a GCSE philosophy textbook and is really proud that he’s got to chapter 2.”

Twitter philosopher, QPR captain and general controversy generator Joey Barton read out mean tweets about himself for BT Sport.

The notoriously short-tempered Liverpudlian read out a selection of tweets slagging off his looks, his football skills and his captaincy.