Roy Keane aims a dig at Joey Barton as he jokes he’d like to phone the former midfielder when asked a question on women’s football
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Manchester United legend Roy Keane has taken aim at Joey Barton over his crusade against women in football.
Barton has been in the news over the past month for a series of misogynistic social media posts targeting former female footballers and broadcasters.
It started when the former midfielder initially suggested that 'women in the men's game should not speak with any form of authority'.
In the latest episode of the Stick to football show, Keane and Ian Wright took on Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher in a quiz hosted by Paddy McGuinness – the former presenter of A Question of Sport.
Keane and Wright were asked who had played longer in their respective roles between Emma Hayes at Chelsea and David Moyes at Everton.
Manchester United legend Roy Keane has taken aim at Joey Barton during a football quiz
Barton was in the news for a series of misogynistic posts on social media
Keane made the joke during the latest episode of the Stick to Football show on YouTube
Neville then suggested that they should “call a friend” for help while the pair debated an answer.
Keane joked: “I could call Joey Barton. Joey would know.”
Barton's latest outburst came on Tuesday night when he slammed Rachel Brown-Finnis' involvement in the broadcast of Liverpool's 2-0 win over Burnley.
He branded it “nonsense” and “tokenism” that Brown-Finnis, a former Liverpool and England goalkeeper, was a pundit for the match on Amazon Prime Video.
He posted on X: 'Is this a women expert (Finnis-Brown) [sic] an international goalkeeper? She is at least a foot shorter than the Turtle Head and McManaman.
'I would chip her on her leash.
'Why is she talking about the men's game???
“Please stop this nonsense.”
As a parting blow, he wrote: '#tokenism'.
It is not the first time he has aimed at a goalkeeper.
He branded it 'nonsense' that Brown-Finnis, a former Liverpool Women and England goalkeeper, was a pundit for Amazon during the Reds' 2-0 win over Burnley.
He boasted he would score '100 out of 100 penalties' against Mary Earps after she won the Sports Personality of the Year award earlier this month.
Despite initially congratulating Earps – who won the Golden Glove en route to the Women's World Cup final with the Lionesses in the summer – he then claimed she 'didn't win a sausage' and called her a 'big bag of hoes' in a bitter broad side.
He insisted horse racing legend Frankie Dettori or snooker star Ronnie O'Sullivan should have won the prize.
Barton recently renewed his attack on Football Focus presenter Alex Scott in recent weeks after claiming the show will be canceled following the axing of an issue of sport after calling it 'nonsense' and 'nonsense'.
Scott hit back at Barton's recent claim that women shouldn't comment on men's football because they haven't played it.
“Just before we say goodbye, to all the women in football, in front of the camera, behind it, the players on the pitch, to everyone who attends matches, keep being the role model that you still are,” she said when reporting on the Women's Super League match between Arsenal and Chelsea
“To all those young girls who are told that's not possible, football is a better place when we're all in it.”
Barton responded on social media, posting: “connntinnuuuuuuuuhhhhhtuuuu [sic] what, sorry @AlexScott. I can't say you don't understand men's football? You do not do that. Sorry. You have no idea. And you were a very poor player compared to even a Sunday League player.
He has also claimed that presenter Laura Woods is not 'brave enough' to debate him on the issue.
The former England international's vitriolic messages have led to widespread condemnation.
