“That was his own fault”- Former Manchester City player Joey Barton offers ex-teammate Ousmane Dabo a chance to settle the score for their 2007 training bust-up
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Joey Barton, a former Manchester City player turned manager recently lifted the lid on his infamous violent interaction with former teammate Ousmane Dabo back in 2007. The duo got into a heated argument that resulted in Barton assaulting Dabo.
Barton later served a 6 match ban and also a 4-month sentence for admitting to assaulting the player leaving him with bruises, cuts and a detached retina. Speaking about the incident to Robbie Fowler’s podcast, the 39-year-old offered Dabo a second chance to take revenge.
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“That was his fault” – Joey Barton says Manchester City training bust-up was just self-defence
Speaking about the whole incident, Joey Barton said, “Dabo slapped me at the training ground so he got put a kip. That was his own fault and if I see him any time and he wants to – you see all these Jake Pauls and that on Youtube.”
“If Ousmane wants to give me a shout and he wants to do it for charity and get his own back… At the end of the day, where I’m from, if someone open palms or slaps you or comes towards you to hit you, you don’t stand around and go ‘I’ll see what he’s doing, I’ll see if this dig hurts me.”
“On a football pitch I’ve been hit by people and just got on with it as that’s the way it is or I’ve had to be separated, I reckon 25 or 30 times. I’ve seen multiple fights on training grounds that have been kept within the confines of the training ground.”
“But Ousmane went out the next day because he knew he couldn’t have done anything about it. All his mates were there, Distin’s and all that. After I’d knocked him out, and bear in mind he’d threw the first dig and got knocked out, [Stuart] Pearce separated us.”
“So I said ‘Look, no problem. If he wants round two we’ll sort it out here, we’re all men.’ He tried to throw the first punch, came unstuck, and he didn’t because he’s a s***bag and went to the papers.”
Barton later said that the incident that took place at the Manchester City training ground on May 1, 2007, should never surface. He said that these things happened and that he himself has seen many other training ground arguments take a violent turn but no one spoke about it. Joey Barton has also served time in prison before for stubbing a cigar in a youth player’s eye in the past.
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