Breaking News Lee Barnard...

[Southampton Shrimper]

Lee Barnard has today been charged with assault and is due to appear before Southampton magistrates on 2 February.

BBC News

 

[Pubey]

sounds like he was out with some mates and they got in a scrap.

 

[Southampton Shrimper]

Barney made a fleeting appearance at court today and now has to reappear before the magistrates on 31 March.

Southern Daily Echo

 

[Firestorm]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-12343724

 

[mattytheshrimper]

load of rubbish really. how many blokes have got in a row on a night out with your mates. everyones been there.

 

[EastStandBlue]

load of rubbish really. how many blokes have got in a row on a night out with your mates. everyones been there.

Not everybody smashes pint glassses over somebody else's head, though...

 

[MK Shrimper]

I reckon he's going to see sometime inside for this.

 

[Pubey]

If he did glass someone then he absolutely should

 

[mattytheshrimper]

Not everybody smashes pint glassses over somebody else's head, though...

not as un-common as you think especially in southend. but fair point, its never as straight forward as the paper makes. for all we know they may have tried to do the same to him. we'll never know.

 

[EastStandBlue]

not as un-common as you think especially in southend. but fair point, its never as straight forward as the paper makes. for all we know they may have tried to do the same to him. we'll never know.

The Southampton fans on another football forum seem to think it's an open and shut case... Barnard had had five or six too many and lashed out when someone said something to him. Somebody claimed to be at the bar and said that the guy had told Barney to calm down, but that's completely unsubstantiated.

I wouldn't expect him to see time, although I do think a judge would be tempted to given the crime and the culprit.

 

[Pubey]

David Amess's son saw time for a similar case in Talk didn't he?

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

Yep the amount of fights EVERY weekend it's just boring! Blokes get a bit angry! THE END!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Yep the amount of fights EVERY weekend it's just boring! Blokes get a bit angry! THE END!

I wonder if you'd be so blase about someone glassing your best mate? Or is this just because it's Barney? Blokes who get a bit angry after a few pints then should drink a few pints of fizzy pop.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Yep the amount of fights EVERY weekend it's just boring! Blokes get a bit angry! THE END!

I'd like to think that if somebody bottled me in a nightclub, regardless of how many times it happens in a weekend, that the bloke would be punished accordingly.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

I wonder if you'd be so blase about someone glassing your best mate? Or is this just because it's Barney?

I'd like to think that if somebody bottled me in a nightclub, regardless of how many times it happens in a weekend, that the bloke would be punished accordingly.

No of course not, a lot has happened to lots of mates of mine, I'm definitely not blase about that kind of thing! But I suppose the point I'm getting at is 'Who actually cares?' Bored of the fascination of Premiership footballer's lives, let alone League 1 players'! Of course Barney should be punished in some way! But you also don't actually know what happened, the bloke might have been really threatening, or abusive, you just don't know do you ?

I actually am not a fan of Barney! As it ****ed me off how he used us as a stepping stone after 6 good months!

 

[TravellingBlue]

My Southampton supporting friends are very worried about this. Allegedly he glassed some, then alledgedly went back and glassed him again - he will be lucky if they don't charge him with attempted murder!!

These stories do get blown out of proportion and the media intensify the speculation with wild accusations, however, seems he is banged to rights, otherwise they would have dropped the case today.

 

[EastStandBlue]

My Southampton supporting friends are very worried about this. Allegedly he glassed some, then alledgedly went back and glassed him again - he will be lucky if they don't charge him with attempted murder!!

These stories do get blown out of proportion and the media intensify the speculation with wild accusations, however, seems he is banged to rights, otherwise they would have dropped the case today.

That's the first time I've heard that he glassed the guy twice. The only variation I've been told is to what caused it, allegedly he responded to someone mouthing off at Harding whereas others say it was directed at him. I also heard it was a Bournemouth fan that he attacked, which would've been infinitely worse for Barnard.

If he did indeed glass him twice, then it's pretty much case closed. It'd be hard to make an attempted murder case stick I'd imagine, but he'd be lucky to not receive a sentence of some kind.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

My Southampton supporting friends are very worried about this. Allegedly he glassed some, then alledgedly went back and glassed him again - he will be lucky if they don't charge him with attempted murder!!

These stories do get blown out of proportion and the media intensify the speculation with wild accusations, however, seems he is banged to rights, otherwise they would have dropped the case today.

Yep, you just do not know what actually happened, the media love to make crimes involving footballers seem completely worse.

The bloke that he 'attacked' could have deserved this! Glassing people isn't really the best way to go about things though! They'll probably be best mates in the next week!

 

[TravellingBlue]

It seems that 'saintsweb' their main messageboard is refusing to discuss Barnard's case in case there are legal writs taken out against them!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Not everybody smashes pint glassses over somebody else's head, though...

One of my mates has.