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Footballer Joey Barton has signed up for a university philosophy course
FOOTBALL bad boy Joey Barton has a new hero in Socrates.
And that is not the legendary Brazilian midfield star who captained his country at the 1982 World Cup.
The
QPR midfielder has signed up for a university philosophy course and he
is swotting up on ancient Greeks Aristotle, Homer, Plato and Socrates
after training.
Barton, 31, is studying at the University of Roehampton, not far from his club’s Loftus Road ground in west London.
He
admits he turned to philosophy in a bid to overcome his
anger-management issues during a football career that has been dogged by
spats on and off the pitch.
He was jailed for
six months in 2008 for punching a man 20 times in a boozy late-night
attack near a McDonald’s in Liverpool. Repeated scraps and bad tackles
have seen him pick up seven red cards and more than 70 yellow cards in
his career.
The Scouser says he was inspired to study the meaning of life by top sports counsellor Peter Kay, who died this week.
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Barton said: “Without him, I dread to think where I would have ended up.
“Dead or in prison, probably.”
The new passion has seen Barton broadcasting his theories on Twitter, where he quotes Virgil, George Orwell and Friedrich Nietzsche.
His postings include: “There’s safety in the herd but never enlightenment or individualism.”
And he quoted Nietzsche with: “The desire to annoy no-one, to harm no-one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
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