Warren Barton

[The Dan Sai Kid]

What happened to Warren Barton in Bangkok? They details I've read are pretty sketchy.

[nev]

i heard that he tried to glass his team mate dunne and missed and hit a 15year old kid.

also heard he got put on is backside by a punch from a everton fan in the reception.

[Davey]

What happened to Warren Barton in Bangkok?  They details I've read are pretty sketchy.

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Haha, It's Joey Barton Warren Barton was some bloke that used to play for the toon with a centre-parten..

What I heard was he had a row with a teenage Everton fan or something and Dunne tried to split it up, Barton has now been sent home and may be forced out of the club in the future... In December he stubbed out a ciggerette into a team mates face after a row he was later fined 6 weeks wages

[The Dan Sai Kid]

What happened to Warren Barton in Bangkok?  They details I've read are pretty sketchy.

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Haha, It's Joey Barton Warren Barton was some bloke that used to play for the toon with a centre-parten..

What I heard was he had a row with a teenage Everton fan or something and Dunne tried to split it up, Barton has now been sent home and may be forced out of the club in the future... In December he stubbed out a ciggerette into a team mates face after a row he was later fined 6 weeks wages

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Yahoo news said it was Warren Barton - that's how much they know. That Joey Barton sounds like a good role model.

[Shivek]

Barton's Man City future in doubt

Joey Barton's future at Manchester City looks in doubt after the fiery midfielder was sent home from the team's pre-season trip to Thailand following a fracas in a hotel bar.

After consultations with the club chairman John Wardle and deputy chairman Bryan Bodek, manager Stuart Pearce decided to send the controversial 22-year-old back to Manchester as a result of his involvement in the incident.

The altercation took place in the early hours of the morning when the team returned to their hotel after spending the evening at a Thai restaurant.

The players had been given permission to enjoy a quiet drink for the first time since arriving in Bangkok a week ago.

Shortly after arriving at the bar, however, Barton became involved with a 15-year-old Everton fan, allegedly striking him before being restrained by club captain Richard Dunne, who got a cut hand for his efforts.

'Suffice to say, I'm very disappointed personally,' said Pearce. 'If all the events that have been fed back to me are true, I'm very disappointed in Joey's behaviour.

'It'll be a case of sitting down with the chairman and gathering my thoughts really in the way we take it forward after gathering all the facts into this football club.

'I always put my trust in players. That's the nature of things. I think any time anyone lets you down, in any way, shape or form, you're disappointed.

'I treat my players, hopefully, like adults and grown men until such time where they betray my trust.'

While expressing his disappointment with Barton, Pearce cleared Dunne of all blame.

'Richard Dunne's behaviour was impartial to this incident and his behaviour was exemplary,' said the former England defender. 'He has nothing to do with it as we move on.'

Liverpool-born midfielder Barton - who was an Everton fan in his youth - is no stranger to controversy.

In December he was fined six weeks' wages, two of those suspended, for jabbing a lit cigar into the eye of former City reserve team player Jamie Tandy at a Christmas party.

The suspended portion of that punishment will almost certainly be activated as a result of the latest altercation, costing Barton a sum of £30,000.

The incident is the first disciplinary test for manager Pearce, who only took over as manager at the tail end of last season following Kevin Keegan's departure.

'As long as I've been manager, the team has always been more important than any one individual,' said Pearce.

'That is the case at this present moment in time and it always will be the case as far as I'm concerned as long as I'm manager.'