Pleaded quilty this time, bad timing for him as already locked up.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1320448,00.htmlFootie Star Barton Admits Assault
Updated:15:52, Monday June 30, 2008
Premier League footballer Joey Barton has pleaded guilty to assaulting a former team-mate in a training ground row.
The Newcastle United midfielder was due to go on trial at Manchester Minshull Crown Court over the incident.
But he changed his plea shortly before the scheduled start.
Barton, 25, admitted one charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to Ousmane Dabo when they were playing colleagues at Manchester City.
It is the third time Barton has been in court in 2008, but his bad behaviour stretches back more than four years.
In April 2004, he stormed out of Eastlands before kick-off after being axed from the side to face Southampton and in a 2005 pre-season "friendly", sparked a mass brawl in a game against Doncaster.
A Christmas bash for Man City players that December saw him stub a lit cigar into the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy. He was fined six weeks wages by City.
In May 2005 he broke the leg of a 35-year-old pedestrian while driving his car at 2am in Liverpool city centre.
The following month was involved in a spat with a 15-year-old Everton fan at City's team hotel in Bangkok. Again he was fined by City.
The bad blood with Everton fans continued in 2006 when he dropped his shorts in the direction of home fans at Goodison Park. He was fined and warned by the FA for his conduct.
In February last year he made his England debut against Spain but a month later was arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage in an incident involving a taxi driver.
Three months later came the fight with Dabo, and a month after that he was sold by City to Newcastle Utd for £5.8m.
In the early hours of December 27, last year, he got into a row in a McDonald's and violence again broke out.
Drunk, Barton straddled his victim, punching him repeatedly in the face. The player admitted assault and affray and was jailed for six months on May 20.
