Joey Barton has been told his Newcastle return is just a stay of execution after the bad-boy midfielder joined team-mates for the start of preseason training yesterday. The former jailbird was banned by Alan Shearer in May following a furious dressing-room bust-up after his red card at Liverpool ruled him out of Toon's doomed relegation fight. But with Shearer forced to endure a frustrating delay as Mike Ashley's £100million sale bid drags on, Barton was back at Newcastle's Benton training base. Advertisement -... [read full story]
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