Joey Barton has been granted...

[frapps]

until tommorrow @12:00 to respond to his charges.

SSN breaking news.

[QPRDave]

why have they extended it?

[QPRWEBBIE]

Im surprised that somebody hasnt started a rumour about a points deduction due to our record breaking poor disciplinary this season

[West Acton]

The alleged head butt on Kompany Lescott has his hand behind Joeys head pushing it.

Possible get out or at least an opportunity to lay some doubt??

Note Tevez has still not been pulled for his part in the incident

[qprjeff1882]

Barton has deflected to Portugal on holiday. Chicken.

[ahR]

Blimey...

The alleged head butt on Kompany Lescott has his hand behind Joeys head pushing it.

Possible get out or at least an opportunity to lay some doubt??

Note Tevez has still not been pulled for his part in the incident

Clutching at straws there... How about about the freak gust of wind that made Barton's knee move violently towards that Aguero chappie and also managed to contort Joey's face into a vicious lookin thug whilst we're at it....

[TRING-RANGER]

so lescott wanted kompany to have a mars bar on his forehead like his !!

and joey was to give the coup-de -grace ............

football is getting really hard to follow....

[MYU]

Joey Barton handed more time to respond to FA violent conduct charges

Joey Barton has been given extra time to respond to the two charges of violent conduct levelled against him for his behaviour during QPR's Barclays Premier League defeat at Manchester City.

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[West Acton]

Clutching at straws there...

I know

[kron-1664]

i think his excuses will be directly from the 'John Terry book of outrageous excuses' available in paperback in the childrens section.

[MYU]

Joey Barton given extra time to respond to violent conduct charges by FA levelled fol

Joey Barton has been given extra time to respond to two charges of violent conduct levelled against him by the FA.

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[Bob]

whats the point in extending it? It's pretty clear cut

[Bob]

i think his excuses will be directly from the 'John Terry book of outrageous excuses' available in paperback in the childrens section.

haha

[swanleyhoop]

The alleged head butt on Kompany Lescott has his hand behind Joeys head pushing it.

Possible get out or at least an opportunity to lay some doubt??

Note Tevez has still not been pulled for his part in the incident

Because of your post, we just watched it again.
First time I've really watched it that carefully, tbh.

Tevez deffo whacked Barton, silly of JB to react though.
Aguero seemed to say something to the ref that riled Barton, but, again, silly of Barton to react.
Lescott does have the flat of his hand on Barton's head, hard to tell if he actively pushes Barton's head towards Kompany, but I can see where they'e coming from.
And JB was going off the pitch quite peacefully until Balotelli stuck his oar in -- again, JB foolishly reacted to that.

Although Barton certainly didn't cover himself in glory, there were a few City players who contributed to the way his loss of self-control just escalated so quickly.
I suspect that will be the basis of any defence/appeal, but I doubt there will be any action taken against anyone except Barton.