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Manchester United legend Roy Keane has aimed a dig at Joey Barton over his crusade against women in football.
Barton has been in the headlines over the past month for a series of misogynistic posts on social media targeting former female footballers and broadcasters.
It started when the former midfielder initially suggested that ‘women shouldn’t be talking with any kind of authority in the men’s game.’
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.
Keane and Wright were asked who spent longer in their respective roles between Emma Hayes at Chelsea and David Moyes at Everton.
Manchester United legend Roy Keane has aimed a dig at Joey Barton during a football quiz
Barton has been in the headlines 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 they should ‘phone a friend’ for help as the pair deliberated over an answer.
Keane joked: ‘I might call Joey Barton. Joey would know’.
Barton’s latest outburst came on Tuesday night as he slammed Rachel Brown-Finnis’ involvement in the broadcast of Liverpool’s 2-0 win at 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 women pundit (Finnis-Brown) [sic] an international goalie? She’s at least a foot shorter than tortoise head and McManaman.
‘I’d chip her on her line.
‘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 taken aim at a goalkeeper.
He labelled 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 that 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 on her way to the Women’s World Cup final with the Lionesses in the summer – he went on to claim she had ‘not won a sausage’ and called her a ‘big sack of spuds’ in a bitter broadside.
He insisted horse racing legend Frankie Dettori or snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan should had won the award instead.
The one-time England international’s vitriolic posts have attracted widespread condemnation.
