The sports activities minister Stuart Andrew has condemned “harmful” feedback made by Joey Barton about feminine soccer commentators and pundits and says he’ll take the problem up with social media platforms.
Barton has posted quite a lot of abusive feedback on-line in current weeks, and the previous Manchester Metropolis midfielder described ITV pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward as “the Fred and Rose West of soccer commentary” on X, previously Twitter, following the channel’s protection of Crystal Palace’s FA Cup draw with Everton final Thursday.
ITV responded by describing Barton’s feedback as “vindictive”.
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Andrew was requested by Labour MP and Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport choose committee member Julie Elliott whether or not he would condemn the feedback, and he stated: “Sure I’d.
“These are feedback that open the floodgates for abuse and that’s not acceptable.
“I’m at all times cautious in these conditions that these form of individuals need the oxygen and I don’t need to gas that.
“I need to placed on document my thanks for the wonderful contribution that girls and women make to soccer and sport extra usually.”
Elliott requested whether or not he would intervene and take this challenge up with social media platforms corresponding to X and Meta, and Andrew replied: “I can fortunately achieve this.”
