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JOEY BARTON-FOOTBALL’S HEADLINE STEALER

Tom Seymour looks at why the Burnley midfielder tends to gobble up more column inches than his on-field success justifies…

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AS LINCOLN City became the first Non- League team to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals since QPR back in 1914, one man threatened to steal the headlines - and it wasn’t Sean Raggett, scorer of the 89th-minute winner.
No, that man was Joey Barton, midfield enforcer for a Burnley side that had just been on the end of a 1-0 loss to their National League opponents.
Barton had become embroiled in some argybargy with Lincoln striker Matt Rhead and ...

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