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Joey Barton: Timeline of controversies after midfielder gets 18 month ban

Joey Barton has been suspended from all football activity for 18 months with immediate effect after he admitted a Football Association misconduct charge related to betting.

It is far from the first time the 34-year-old midfielder, who plans to appeal against the length of the ban, has hit the headlines for the wrong reasons.

Here, we detail some of the other incidents:

December 2004 -- Stubs lit cigar in the eye of young teammate Jamie Tandy during Manchester City's Christmas party. Fined six weeks' wages by the club. Forced to pay four weeks' salary -- approximately £60,000 -- immediately, with a further two weeks suspended for a year.