Football to close ranks around its 'enfant terrible' In the fantasy world of the Premier League, Joey Barton will soon be forgiven – but how would the sack help him to rehabilitate? Sunday, 6 July 2008 We have learnt some facts many of us would possibly prefer not to have known in the BBC's compelling all-week drama. No, not Andy Murray's will-he-won't-he, consummating his relationship with the Centre Court aficionados. But the TV series Criminal Justice. It's not Porridge, that's for sure. In one of the more palatable scenes, the manipulative prison overlord offers our "hero" a white pressed shirt to attend court. He had wanted to wear one mum had given him. Blue. "It's not a 'jury shirt'," he is told, by the jail's Mr Big with an enigmatic smile. White. That's what subconsciously sways juries that a man's evidence is pure....
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