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Joey Barton in another Twitter scandal
JOEY BARTON is back in trouble again after being summoned by the French Football Federation’s ethics committee for calling Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva an “overweight ladyboy”.
Barton wrote a series of Twitter messages on Tuesday and Wednesday in which he went as far as questioning whether Silva was “pre-op or post-op”
Barton, on loan at Marseille from QPR, was ordered by club officials to cease his Twitter attack on the Brazilian, which was also condemned by PSG and a prominent French anti-homophobia group.
Barton wrote a series of Twitter messages on Tuesday and Wednesday in which he went as far as questioning whether Silva was “pre-op or post-op”.
Barton’s outburst apparently stemmed from comments made by Silva ahead of PSG’s Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona, when there was an oblique reference to Barton.
The anti-homophobia group Paris Foot Gay said in a statement: “We consider this type of remark to be vulgar, discriminatory and funny to nobody.”
The case will be heard by the committee on April 15.