Just picked this up off the BBC website.
Barton's flashpoints
Feb 2004 - while playing for Manchester City receives the first of nine red cards in career
Dec 2004 - Fined eight weeks' wages for stubbing out lit cigar in eye of team-mate
June 2005 - Fined eight weeks' wages for 'gross misconduct' during altercation with fan
May 2008 - Jailed for six months for common assault and affray in Dec 2007
July 2008 - Given four-months suspended jail sentence and 12-match ban, six suspended, for assaulting City team-mate in May 2007
Nov 2010 - Banned for punching Blackburn winger Morten Gamst Pedersen
May 2012 - 12-match ban for violent conduct playing for QPR against Man City
May 2013 - Given a two-match suspended ban while playing for Marseille for describing PSG defender Thiago Silva as looking like "an overweight ladyboy"
What a ****ing knobhead he is. Then he goes on twitter to try and justify himself by laying the blame at our door.