Barton Banned For 12 Games

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

An independent Regulatory Commission has today [Wednesday 23 May 2012] dealt with two charges of violent conduct against Joey Barton, arising from the game against Manchester City, resulting in an eight-match suspension and £75,000 fine for the Queens Park Rangers midfielder.

This eight-match suspension is to run consecutively to the four-game suspension Barton was already given for his dismissal in the fixture, making a total of 12 matches.

Barton was charged by The FA with two counts of violent conduct in relation to the Queens Park Rangers game against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday 13 May 2012.

Following Barton’s dismissal in the 54th minute of the match, there followed two incidents involving Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero and Vincent Kompany. As Barton had already been dismissed, both of these incidents fell outside the jurisdiction of the referee.

Barton accepted the charge of violent conduct against Aguero but denied the second breach of violent conduct against Kompany. The independent Regulatory Commission, however, found this second charge proved.

Barton is already serving a four-match suspension for his dismissal in the match, which consists of three matches for violent conduct plus one match as this was the player’s second dismissal of the season. The two further breaches for violent conduct ordered he be suspended for eight matches to run consecutively to the four matches, taking the total suspension to 12 matches.

The Chairman of the Regulatory Commission stated after the hearing: “There are rules of conduct that should be adhered to, and such behaviour tarnishes the image of football in this country, particularly as this match was the pinnacle of the domestic season and watched by millions around the globe.”

Not enough, really.

[Marc Overmars]

Oh dear.

What a wankstain.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Waste of time QPR keeping him really.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Coincidentally, the odds of him joining Stoke have just plummeted.

Pulis would probably give him a raise.

[Rors]

Good.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Danny Mills, BBC Radio 5 live BARTON BAN

Danny Mills continues on BBC Radio 5 live: "Without a shadow of a doubt this has something to do with previous and because it is Joey Barton. Yes he deserved to get sent off and the incident with Aguero he deserved a ban for that, but an extra four games on top of that?

"Joey will take his punishment. He has had his problems and bounced back. One to one he's a decent guy, but he's lost his head.

"It's a couple of years since he was at Newcastle and he had problems with Alan Shearer as manager. When you have demons it is difficult to change things overnight. It is almost like an alcoholic. You're only one drink from falling off the wagon.

What rubbish.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

should have got put in jail for a year. he's already stubbed a fag out in a teammates eye, punched a guy outside mcdonalds, and had plenty of other on field ABH/GBH incidents. if this was any normal human without a footballers wage then they'd be put in prison and given 12 months behind bars. the fact that this **** still gets to play football and will probably be signed by a promoted team sends completely the wrong message out to our kids; be a twat and you can still be a success. they banned rio for 9 months for missing a drugs test, with no evidence of drugs in his body, but ban mr barton for 3 months for assault and indirect battery.

well done FA, well done guys

[fari]

great news!

[Kano]

What rubbish.

i think the last two sentences of that make complete sense but when it affects other people then any sympathy or understanding has to be in very short measure.

[Syn]

I blame the parents tbh.