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Thursday 12 April 2012

'I like whippets'

If ever there was a living, breathing definition of an idiot savant...

Or Jekyll and Hyde...

Or a charming sociopath...

Or maybe a loveable rogue?

It's Joey Barton. That he's a mediocre footballer only makes me like the guy more.

Of course, the art world is ridiculous, but what could be more absurd than a much-maligned Premier League jailbird in the polite environs of the National Portrait Gallery, talking to a Guardian journalist of all hacks, about an artist as revered as Freud? The funny thing is, by all accounts Freud was twice the sociopath that Barton is.

Joey Barton talks to the slides

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