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Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton. John Walton/EMPICS Sport

Barton launches one-man campaign for the release of Hillsborough documents

Joey Barton has been using Twitter to campaign for the full disclosure of documents relating to the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989.

JOEY BARTON HAS come to the realisation that he can use his Twitter account for good as well as nonsense, and started a campaign for full disclosure of documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster.

The Guardian reports that the Newcastle United midfielder took to the social networking site on Thursday to send over 40 messages to celebrities including Sir Alan Sugar and Lady Gaga.

He was urging them to sign a petition aimed at getting the British Government to withdraw its opposition to the publication of all files relating to the tragedy in April 1989.

The Cabinet Office recently made efforts to conceal the publication of documents that included correspondence between then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her home secretary, Douglas Hurd, and it was this action by the current UK Government that led to the creation of the e-petition.

Barton insists he will tweet about nothing else until he has the requisite 100,000 votes that will bring the motion into the Houses of Parliament.

Having seen no response from Apprentice star and former Tottenham chairman Sugar, Barton then tweeted the following:

The number of people that have signed the petition currently stands at approximately 51,000, and is rising all the time as a result of Barton’s tweets.

More on this story on The Guardian’s website here >

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    Mute Declan Snow
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    Nov 13th 2018, 7:48 PM

    Kick out one makes no sense. Anyone Who’s ever played the game has played when the wind is blowing a gail and you’re lucky to pass it forward 10 metres, let alone 25 metres. Can’t see it working across all year round. Also one thing that is drilled into every player from day 1 is to hand pass in a short space, what if on pass 4 you want to hand pass to someone running of your shoulder or a pop inside and you can’t as you have to kick it? Just won’t work.

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    Nov 13th 2018, 10:24 PM

    @Declan Snow: after 3 passes if there is no good forward pass on you will have to turn back and kick pass backwards to keep possession is hardly going to encourage attacking play

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    Nov 13th 2018, 7:36 PM

    Over complicating an essentially simple game…pointless…

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    Nov 13th 2018, 9:31 PM

    All too complicated – just bring rules into to subvert mass defences and problems will be solved – minimum of 4 players in opposing half at all times

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    Nov 13th 2018, 10:26 PM

    Sideline kick:

    If I am an opposing team and I know the opposition can’t kick the ball backwards from a sideline kick then I am going to get all my players back behind the point of the sideline kick in a defensive position. Therefore this rule will have a negative impact on the game.

    If the GAA want to sort out football, their main issue and one that nobody talks about is the tackle. A defending player one on one tackling a forward will 9 times out of 10 be judged to foul that forward with the current interpretation of the tackle. Teams are then forced to pull back extra players to shepherd the attacking player with the ball away from the goal as their is less chance of giving away a free by doing this.

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    Mute Patrick O' Donoghue
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    Nov 13th 2018, 8:19 PM

    Take should keep the handpass as long it is used going forward ,if used backwards have a hop ball

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    Nov 13th 2018, 8:33 PM

    These rule changes aren’t ideal but it needs something. Its stink at present. Give them a try it can’t get much worse.

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    Nov 13th 2018, 9:53 PM

    Best to have well painted 20m and 40m lines. In most pitches neither the referee nor the players will know where any lines are.

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    Nov 13th 2018, 10:17 PM

    GAA handball…can they stop the decay of the game?

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