{"id":589258,"date":"2026-04-08T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:47:14","slug":"ex-british-soccer-player-pleads-not-guilty-to-golf-club-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589258\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-British soccer player pleads not guilty to golf club attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former British soccer player and coach Joey Barton has pleaded not guilty to attacking a man at a golf club in northwest England last month, the BBC reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barton, who was denied bail at an earlier magistrates hearing, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court via a video link from Liverpool prison for a plea and trial preparation hearing, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Local police said last month that Barton, 43, and Gary O&#8217;Grady, 50, were charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm following an assault at Huyton and Prescot Golf Club in Merseyside on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Grady appeared in court but did not enter a plea, according to the BBC, who also identified the person who was attacked as former non-league football manager Kevin Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/2026\/04\/07\/joey-barton-pleads-not-guilty-golf-club-attack-bbc-report\/89509053007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Joey Barton pleads not guilty to golf club attack, per BBC report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Joey Barton pleads not guilty to golf club attack, per BBC report&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Joey Barton pleads not guilty to golf club attack, per BBC report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British soccer player and coach Joey Barton has pleaded not guilty to attacking a man at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[224595,49,48,224597,224593,224594,224596,561,82,224599,224598],"class_list":["post-589258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-british-soccer-player","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gary-o39grady","tag-joey-barton","tag-liverpool-crown-court","tag-northwest-england","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-trial-preparation","tag-wounding-with-intent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}