{"id":420794,"date":"2011-05-10T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/10\/joey-barton-praises-his-newcastle-team-mates-for-stepping-up-and-steering-club-away-from-danger\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:40:00","slug":"joey-barton-praises-his-newcastle-team-mates-for-stepping-up-and-steering-club-away-from-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/10\/joey-barton-praises-his-newcastle-team-mates-for-stepping-up-and-steering-club-away-from-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Barton praises his Newcastle team-mates for stepping up and steering club away from danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Shane Farrington<\/h3>\n<h4>10 May 2011 15:40:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"65.453125\">\n<div readability=\"15.2307692308\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joey Barton, Newcastle United (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/116500\/116508_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joey Barton, Newcastle United (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"28.3916083916\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/99\/newcastle\">Newcastle United<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1928\/joey-barton\">Joey Barton<\/a> believes the effort of his team-mates explains why the club has avoided being dragged into a relegation scrap this season.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle have impressed this campaign and are in 11th spot in the Premier League, and Barton has praised the work of his team-mates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing for me was to achieve Premier League survival with a group of players at Newcastle United,\u201d Barton told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether that was with myself playing well or Kevin Nolan, or Shola Ameobi, whoever it\u2019s been the lads have been there all through the season, and when myself or certain other individuals have been off the boil there\u2019s been a team group to fall back and catch us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals win nothing and achieve nothing and thankfully we\u2019ve got a good squad mentality and a good rapport between ourselves and we\u2019ve been able to propel ourselves up the table in the last few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Manchester City man has impressed on the pitch this season but has moved to downplay comments he reportedly made in an interview where he was quoted as saying that he was England&#8217;s best midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been quoted in French magazines as saying what I felt about it, which was totally blown out of proportion, but it is what it is really,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/10\/2480089\/joey-barton-praises-his-newcastle-team-mates-for-stepping-up-and-\" title=\"Joey Barton praises his Newcastle team-mates for stepping up and steering club away from danger\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Barton praises his Newcastle team-mates for stepping up and steering club away from danger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Shane Farrington 10 May 2011 15:40:00 Joey Barton, Newcastle United (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton believes the effort of his team-mates explains why the club has avoided being dragged into a relegation scrap this season. Newcastle have impressed this campaign and are in 11th spot in the Premier League, and Barton has praised the work of his team-mates. \u201cThe most important thing for me was to achieve Premier League survival with a group of players at Newcastle United,\u201d Barton told Sky Sports <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joey Barton praises his Newcastle team-mates for stepping up and steering club away from danger - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/10\/joey-barton-praises-his-newcastle-team-mates-for-stepping-up-and-steering-club-away-from-danger\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Joey Barton praises his Newcastle team-mates for stepping up and steering club away from danger - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Shane Farrington 10 May 2011 15:40:00 Joey Barton, Newcastle United (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton believes the effort of his team-mates explains why the club has avoided being dragged into a relegation scrap this season. 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