text: Sports betting Back Barton to be benched after boo boy barrage - Derek McGovern - Mirror Online
  Back Barton to be benched after boo boy barrage
  Sports betting guru Derek McGovern reckons Joey Barton's "relationship" with the QPR fans may see him benched this weekend
  14:38, 23 MAR 2012
  Bench-warmer? Joey Barton's a decent bet to be dropped by Hoops boss Mark Hughes (Image: Getty)
  The QPR fans who booed Joey Barton in midweek claim he spends too much time on Twitter - the other QPR fans claim he spends too much time at QPR.
  The social networking tool is often described as the biggest waste of time known to mankind. And so is Twitter.
  Barton was booed when he was taken off against Liverpool and called it the worst performance of his career despite Rangers' win - clearly forgetting his Twitter battle with the TOWIE cast.
  The Scouse midfielder has developed an interest in art and only recently claimed the reason some portraits don't look true to life is people make no effort to resemble their pictures. I heard he attended an art class but got chucked out for trying to trace the nudes. I also heard he paid £10,000 for a genuine Gandolfini painting from his Venetian period. No one told him Gandolfini was a plumber.
  The former Manchester City star puts the art in Barton and the twit in Twitter - now it seems that his boss Mark Hughes, who puts the Spark in Queens Park Rangers, may be tempted to give him the brush-off this weekend.
  BetVictor offer 9-4 for Barton to be left out of the starting line-up at Sunderland and I haven't the art to turn it down.
  BET OF THE DAY: Did you hear about the Welsh shepherd who was made redundant? He felt ewes less. Get on Lukas Lacko at 13-8 to beat Kei Nishikori in the Miami tennis tonight.