Here is why the lads a Shithouse
Dec 2004 - stubbed a lit cigar into the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy during Manchester City's Christmas party. Fined six weeks' wages by City. Forced to pay four weeks' salary - approximately £60,000 - immediately, with a further two weeks suspended for a year.
Barton says: "If I was to do something similar, I'd be the biggest fool ever."
May 2005 - breaks leg of 35 year-old pedestrian while driving his car at 2am in Liverpool city centre.
July 2005 - involved in an altercation with a 15-year-old Everton fan at City's team hotel in Bangkok, where the team are playing in the FA Premier League Trophy. Fined eight weeks' wages by City after being found guilty of gross misconduct. Accepts punishment and agrees to undertake a programme of rehabilitation.
Says: "When people talk about my dark days, when I sit down and think about it - the misdemeanours I've
had, with the things that go on in the real world - the things I have done are stupid and foolish. But they are not war crimes."
Sept 2006 - drops his shorts in the direction of Everton fans following City's 1-1 draw at Goodison Park.
Charged with improper conduct and/or bringing the game into disrepute by the Football Association and fined £2,000.
Says: "The shorts thing was only intended as a light-hearted joke but some people didn't take it that way unfortunately. I don't know whether the fans see me as the Evertonian that got away or what. I was there when I was a youngster and have had a couple of chances to go back and it's never been right."
Feb 2007 - wins his first international call-up despite public criticism of the England team's performance at the World Cup and subsequent releases of autobiographies.
Says: "England did nothing in the World Cup, so why are they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the
quarter-finals, I played like s**t, here's my book'. Who wants to read that? I don't."
This lot is before he should of spent a long long time in prison, he is a shithead who will never change.
To mention him in the same breath as Stevie is well out of order.
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