JOEY BARTON RAP SHEET
2004 Collects first ever red card while at Manchester City in an FA Cup game v Tottenham. After being booked for a late challenge in the first half, Barton is shown a second yellow card for dissent.
Storms out of City before kick-off after being dropped from the side to face Southampton.
A late challenge in a pre-season match at Doncaster Rovers causes a mass brawl.
At the City Christmas party, Barton stubs a lit cigar into the eye of his young team-mate Jamie Tandy and is forced by City to pay a fine of four weeks’ salary — approximately £60,000 — immediately, with a further two weeks’ suspended for a year. Tandy later sued Barton, winning £65,000 in damages. 2005 Breaks leg of 35-year-old pedestrian while driving his car at 2am in Liverpool city centre.
Involved in altercation with a 15-year-old Everton fan at City’s team hotel in Bangkok in their pre-season tour. Fined eight weeks’ wages by City after being found guilty of gross misconduct. Accepts punishment and agrees to undertake a programme of rehabilitation. 2006 Faces FA and Merseyside Police investigation after dropping shorts in the direction of Everton fans following City’s 1-1 draw at Goodison Park.
In December, he’s shown a straight red card — for a wild two-footed lunge on Abdoulaye Faye in City’s 2-0 home defeat by Bolton. 2007 Arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage in an incident involving a taxi driver.
Suspended by City for the rest of the season after a training-ground altercation with Ousmane Dabo, which leaves his team-mate needing hospital treatment. He then appears at Trafford magistrates court to answer a charge of assault on Dabo.
FA investigate Barton’s tackle on Sunderland’s Dickson Etuhu in the Wear-Tyne derby but take no action.
Arrested in December, in Liverpool city centre after a late-night incident and later charged with common assault and affray. 2008 Jailed in May for six months after admitting common assault and affray. He serves 77 days. Receives four-month suspended sentence in July for assaulting Dabo.
Charged with violent conduct by FA over Dabo incident, which he admits. He’s banned for 12 matches — six of which are suspended — and fined £25,000 by the FA for his attack. 2009 Sent off while playing for Newcastle boss Alan Shearer for a late challenge on Xabi Alonso.
He’s later suspended until further notice by Newcastle after a reported training-ground bust-up with Shearer. 2010 Banned for three matches for violent conduct by the FA after punching the Blackburn Rovers player Morten Gamst Pedersen in the ribs. 2012 Receives a straight red card while at QPR after head-butting Norwich midfielder Bradley Johnson.
On the final day of the season at Manchester City, Barton was sent off in the 55th minute for violent conduct after elbowing Carlos Tevez in the face. He then kicked Sergio Aguero in the back of the knee and attempted to head-butt Vincent Kompany before being dragged from the pitch by former team-mate Micah Richards. After an FA charge, Barton was handed another 12-match ban and fined £75,000. QPR stripped him of the captaincy and fined him six weeks’ wages, believed to be around £500,000. 2013 At Marseille, he’s handed a two-match suspended ban for describing Thiago Silva of Paris Saint-Germain as looking like an ‘overweight ladyboy’ on Twitter.