Joey Barton has misplaced weight and joined the jail soccer staff as he awaits trial following an alleged golf course assault, based on his podcast co-host.
Barton has been in custody since March 10 after being charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily hurt.
The 43-year-old is claimed to have attacked father-of-two Kevin Lynch, 51, at Huyton and Prescot Golf Membership on March 8.
Liverpool Magistrates’ Court docket beforehand heard Mr Lynch suffered accidents to his face and there’s a chance he could lose sight in a single eye.
Barton pleaded not responsible to the alleged assault on Tuesday, when he appeared at Liverpool Crown Court docket by way of videolink from jail.
The previous footballer’s ‘Frequent Sense podcast’ was lately recorded with out him, together with his co-hosts telling listeners about his time in custody to date.
Joey Barton, 43, (pictured in December final yr) pleaded not responsible this week after being charged with occasioning grievous bodily hurt
Co-hosts of Barton’s Frequent Sense podcast have claimed he has misplaced weight and is captain of the jail soccer staff
One declared that Barton has been ‘shedding a little bit of f***ing timber’ after changing into the captain of the jail soccer staff.
The podcast co-host, often known as Cambo, said that Barton has been making an attempt to maintain energetic whereas in custody and claimed he has been joking with others in jail.
‘He’s shedding a little bit of weight, he’s enjoying a little bit of footy, conserving himself energetic. Imply machine,’ he mentioned.
‘I can inform you a narrative about Joe, one in all my mates, his mate is in jail with him.
‘Me mate’s mate was within the library with among the lads, and he mentioned Joe’s strolling the library and mentioned “boss ebook there for you lads”.
‘It was his autobiography. That’s positively Joe.’
Barton was charged alongside his buddy and roofer Gary O’Grady, 50, who was launched on bail.
Kevin Lynch, 51, was injured within the alleged assault at Huyton and Prescot Golf Membership in Liverpool
O’Grady appeared in court docket earlier this week however didn’t enter any pleas.
Barton (proper) and Gary O’Grady, who was additionally charged, appeared within the dock at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court docket on March 10
A trial date has been set for September 1, with the case anticipated to final seven days.
The court docket was beforehand advised that Mr Lynch, a former non-league soccer supervisor and founding father of particular training college NexGen Academy, had been consuming with the defendants on the £1,440-a-year golf membership earlier than the alleged assault.
Prosecutor Chelsea Kearns mentioned he and Barton, a former Manchester Metropolis and Queens Park Rangers midfielder, then appeared to have a ‘heated dialogue’.
The pair went exterior, the place a witness mentioned they noticed a person being punched, kicked and stamped on, the court docket heard.
Barton allegedly warned Mr Lynch as he was attacked: ‘You must have behaved.’
Numerous cops have been scrambled to the scene on the golf membership, with forensics officers cordoning off the membership and scouring the grounds for clues.
Neighbours described listening to a person groaning in ache and seeing swimming pools of blood on the road earlier than paramedics arrived.
Barton has one England cap and in addition performed for Newcastle, Rangers, Burnley and Marseille.
