QPR chief Tony Fernandes has warned Joey Barton: Donât blow your last chance Rangers have told their shamed star he will be sacked if he repeats his mayhem at Manchester City on the final day last season. Club owner and chairman Fernandes said: âJoeyâs realised his mistakes. and hopefully we can put this behind us. I am someone who believes everybody deserves a chance â as long as that someone shows they want the chance. âFor me, itâs now down to Joey. I can say whatever I want, but itâs all up to Joey.â The FA banned Barton for TWELVE matches and fined him £75,000 for getting sent off at City for elbowing Carlos Tevez â and then lashing out at Sergio Aguero and Vincent Kompany as he left the field. Rangers then threw the book at Barton after holding their own probe into the incidents. They fined him SIX WEEKS wages â £420,000 â stripped him of the captaincy and axed him from their pre-season tour. They also had a new clause written into his contract that states he faces the sack if he misbehaves like that again. Fernandes added: âI applaud everyone in this process. Commonsense prevailed. âJoeyâs put a lot at risk by saying Iâm going to prove that I want to remain a member of QPR, and credit to him. âWe have been hard and rightly so â but everyone has come out of this a winner and weâve done it with style. âWe werenât pushed to rush into any decision. We havenât overreacted. We took our time, evaluated the situation and came up with a solution.â QPR survived relegation despite suffering a 3-2 defeat to City, who scored twice in stoppage time to be crowned Premier League champions. Air Asia tycoon Fernandes, who bought QPR last August, said: âThe title was decided with seconds left and we ended up surviving. The emotions I went through were like nothing I had experienced in my life. âAfter half-time I didnât want to go back out. Bolton were winning, we were losing and I just wanted to put my head in a hole and die. âThen after we came back in the second half I had a grin from here to Kuala Lumpur. âEach of my businesses have given me such tremendous enjoyment but nothing was as hard as last season with QPR. âWe lost games we shouldnât have, we had red cards that didnât make sense, goals were disallowed when they were clearly goals, players getting struck down with viruses â you name it, we had it. âTo end up the way we did gave us a chance to build. âMark Hughes said after the game, âLetâs go for a drinkâ. âIâm usually always someone with gallons of energy. But on this occasion I had to decline because I was so drained I just wanted to go to sleep. It was such an emotional rollercoaster. It was phenomenal.â Fernandes has been busy this summer with his Caterham Formula One team â but that does not mean he has put QPR on the back-burner. The Malaysian multi-millionaire has already provided the funds to bring in Rob Green, Samba Diakite, Ryan Nelsen, Andy Johnson and Fabio on loan from Manchester United. He said: âIn F1 I know my team has got a long way to go. âBut in football I know with a couple of good signings and a little bit of luck we can maybe move up the table.â
