When Joey Barton announced his commitment to pacifism, DT assumed his days of stubbing out cigars in teammates eyes and violently attacking teenagers on the street were over. But when he went postal on the final day of the season, it was clear he had returned to his feral ways. The QPR midfielder — currently serving a 12-match ban due to his antics at Eastlands — was involved in another skirmish while exiting 'gay-friendly super club' Garlands in Liverpool city centre.

News is just coming in that former Newcastle player Joey Barton has been involved in another altercation, this time in his home town of Liverpool. The news it that the Liverpudlian, who supports Everton, was punched in the face at 5:30 am this morning outside a Liverpool night-club. QPR midfielder Joey Barton was hit in the face outside the [.

Man City 3-2 QPR was an eventful game to say the least. Manchester City won their first Premier League title in almost 40 years but the game will also be remembered for the actions of a former Man City player. Joey Barton, who left the club in 2007, has been an enigma his whole career. There's no doubt that Barton is a talented midfielder with a terrific range of passing combined with the work rate and determination that every captain should possess but his temperament has never improved with age.

Rajon Rondo and a cameraman got into an altercation after Tuesday night's game between the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks. Apparently Rajon Rondo didn't want to be on camera and went to the cameraman and told him to his face. You can watch the Rajon Rondo cameraman video below to see how it unfolded.

Retroactive refereeing has now gone both ways.

The New England Revolution were successful in the first-ever appeal of a red card under the league's new system, getting Fernando Cardenas' fine and suspension for the card he received Saturday against Real Salt Lake rescinded.

This past weekend, football was secondary. Seeing 25 year-old Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini collapse on the pitch put everything in perspective once again for the football world just weeks after Fabrice Muamba's similar heart attack on the field against Tottenham. Only on Saturday, Morosini wasn't as lucky and died en route to the hospital.

Two Arsenal fans have been banned from football matches for an altercation with police at the Emirates which was prompted by the fact they were standing during the game.

It is fair to say there was more to the incident at the home game against Manchester United than simply the fact that they wouldn't sit down and you can read a full report here.

Two Arsenal fans have been banned from football matches for an altercation with police at the Emirates which was prompted by the fact they were standing during the game.

It is fair to say there was more to the incident at the home game against Manchester United than simply the fact that they wouldn't sit down and you can read a full report here.

I ordered the Chateau Pape de Neuf and you give me the Montepulciano?

The UEFA wizards ban Arsene Wenger for three matches for the offense of having a verbal altercation with referee Damir Skomina after the Milan Champions League match. Wenger is also fined £33,000.

Skomina was the referee who allowed Robinho's goal to stand after receiving a pass from a clearly offside Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

We're just one day away from the New England Revolution home opener against the Portland Timbers, and there's a palpable buzz in the air if you're a soccer fan around the Hub. Meanwhile, there's been quite a bit going on in soccer while we prepare for this momentous event, including the kickoff of the USA's Olympic Qualifying campaign.

Hong Kong youth side ESF Lions had a grudge to settle going into their match with rivals Kitchee Escola, having lost the previous encounter 16-0. The bad blood wasn't helped when one of the Lions earned himself a trip to the police station — and the starring role in a race scandal — by delivering a fairly unsubtle kick to the head of an opponent who had suffered a bad tackle.

It is a potentially critical weekend at the bottom of the Premier League table.
The games almost have a play-off theme to them – with the bottom six facing off against one another. Blackburn Rovers host QPR, Bolton Wanderers entertain Wigan Athletic and West Brom travel to Wolves in the Black Country derby.

Harry Redknapp is a free man.

Redknapp and Sheffield Wednesday owner Milan Mandaric were acquitted of tax evasion charges after being found not guilty of avoiding to pay taxes on payments made into an offshore account in Monaco between 2002 and 2007, when both men were at Portsmouth.

On Saturday evening, Houston Dynamo goalkeeper Tyler Deric and midfielder Warren Creavalle were arrested outside of the Roosevelt Bar on Washington Avenue in the Heights. The various reports indicate that Deric and Creavalle as well as Will Bruin and Alex Dixon were denied entry and they believed that the grounds for said denial were based on the bar's apparent racist policies.

What? ... No i'm not bloody offside! Meow...Liverpool fought hard on Monday night in an attempt to take three points from Tottenham Hotspur but with no goals from either side the highlight of the game ended up going to a little mischievous cat. The Reds played well but just couldn't find a goal as Spurs showed some staunch defending.

Angry Liverpool fans have targeted Manchester United defender Patrice Evra as the focal point for their wrath as Liverpool and Manchester United clash in the FA Cup 4th Round. Evra was involved in an altercation with Liverpool striker Luis Suarez when the two sides met in the League clash in September with Suarez having been [.

By Chris Wright

Arsene Wenger was left blaming the referee, Nathan Dyer's sapling legs, his own porous defence, his own wayward attack and the poor bloke that ladles out the Bovril at the Liberty Stadium after watching his Arsenal side have their top-four aspirations kicked squarely in the nads in South Wales yesterday evening.

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In a story heading straight for our 'hell no' files, 27-year-old Liverpool winger and England international, Stewart Downing, was arrested on suspicion of assault early Sunday morning following an altercation with a supposed ex-girlfriend (rumoured to be Donna the doorstep dramatist Moloney) at the Cross Keys pub near Middlesborough.

It's a bit of an unexpected grab-bag today, with plenty of newsworthy tidbits but not a whole lot to really sink our teeth into, so we've got a few highlights to hit before getting to the video that might normally round out a lazy Sunday here on the Liverpool Offside:

* The third round is done, the fourth round is drawn, and because it simply had to happen it means that Liverpool will host Manchester United in the FA Cup on either January 28th or 29th.

Guardian: Liverpool 5-1 Oldham Athletic | FA Cup third round match report

Shunning the FA Cup in protest at the eight-match ban handed to Luis Suárez was among the more ludicrous proposals put to Liverpool by indignant supporters. Mercifully it was given short shrift by the Anfield club and Kenny Dalglish's team as they ended another turbulent week by overcoming an obstinate Oldham Athletic to secure their place in the fourth round.

By Joel Greenwaldt
In a match up that was billed by many as the must see game of the season, the Baltimore Blast and Milwaukee Wave battled fiercely for 60 minutes in a game that lived up to it's billing. Baltimore was able to secure a hard fought 9-4 victory over Milwaukee, and at the same validated their belief that they are the best team in the MISL.

After the Oklahoma City Thunder were eliminated last year in the playoffs, the talk surrounding the team was concerning how well Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook could coexist. While Westbrook is a talented point guard, he's also a player who looks to score first and that doesn't mesh well with Durant, who is arguably the NBA's best scorer.

As Arsenal captain, even your hair has to be neat

Two things got me to write this topic today. First, I'm at the moment in the middle of reading Alex Flynn's "Arsènal The Making of a Modern Superclub" and I'm currently at the chapter which speaks about the behaviour of a certain William Gallas after the 2-2 draw at Birmingham.

Love him or hate him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is undoubtedly one of the best strikers in the world. The Swedish International has in the past few weeks been in the spotlight for revealing personal details about his professional relationships in some of the world's biggest clubs.

Ibrahimovic who is scheduled to launch his autobiography in the next few days, continued with his shocking remarks on Wednesday during an interview with La Gazetta Dello Sport.

Tottenham's Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes could be on his way out of the club after he had a ugly altercation with coach Harry Redknapp. Apparently, this latest burst up comes as a result of built up tensions between the player and the coach dating back to Tottenham's opening league fixture against United in August.

When he's not breaking ribs at A.C. Milan, Oguchi Onyewu travels back in time to break Bruce Lee's ribs in Game of Death.

Seemingly celebrating the first anniversary of his altercation with Sporting Lisbon defender and U.S. international Oguchi Onyewu, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has released an autobiography that briefly details the fight (among other, far less interesting self-aggrandizement).

The only way is to the barbers for Joey Barton

QPR midfielder and cultured man about town Joey Barton has been ingratiating himself with stars of hit TV show The Only Way Is Essex while checking out the newly launched video game Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Barton was in attendance at the glitzy launch of the game, along with fellow Premier League footballers Kieran Gibbs, Daniel Sturridge and Anton Ferdinand, who spent his first night at a public event since his altercation with John Terry with none other than the Chelsea captain's te.

By Chris Wright

Kris Commons pulled a fast one on the photographers gathered outside the club's training ground, turning up in a neck brace and bandages after rumours spread on Twitter recently of a nasty, but sadly non-existent, bust-up in the Celtic ranks.

photo courtesy of Jarred Donalson
Sporting KC took a big first step in the playoffs on Sunday night in Colorado as they took out the Rapids 2-0 in the first leg of their home and home series. With the second leg at home at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, KC is firmly in the driver's seat in the series.

By Chris Wright

In which 35-year old Sfintul Gheorge veteran Julian Bursuc goes out with a bang against Iskra Stal in the Moldovan top flight, quite literally in fact by smacking the referee one across the chops with a brutal right-hook during an altercation on the touchline, before promptly announcing his retirement from the game altogether.

Now's not a particularly good time to be a Palmeiras fan. Turns out it's not a particularly good time to be a Palmeiras player, either. Combine the two and you get the inevitable: news reports.

Displeased with the current state of affairs in Palmeirasland, some undoubtedly wonderful fans decided to attack a player as he left the official store.

As Carlos Tevez awaits further action from his club, new reports emerging claim that he had an altercation with team mate Alexander Kolarov that led to averbal exchange between the two where Kolarov called Tevez and idiot.

It is true that Tevez's actions were rather foolish and unbecoming and although everyone is right in thinking this, it still does not give anyone the right to speak their mind.

Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood insists that there is nothing serious about Joey Barton's claim that the infamous altercation with Gervinho in the opening round of fixtures prevented him from securing a move to the Emirates.

Barton, whose proved the Gunners' summer signing before overreacting to the Ivorian's slap by going to the ground, made it clear that he had no regrets over the incident in the immediate aftermath.

Arsenal's summer signing Gervinho has revealed that former Gunner Samir Nasri convinced him to seal a transfer from Lille to the Emirates by promising that they would be playing together at the club this season.

However, with Nasri recently completing a protracted move to Manchester City, Gervinho has urged the entire Arsenal squad to overcome the pain of losing such a key playmaker by responding collectively.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Revolution again failed to hold onto an early lead and had to settle for a 1-1 draw at home tonight with the Houston Dynamo. Despite typical heroics from Matt Reis and a bright start to the match, a chronic inability to keep possession dogged the Revs yet again and allowed Houston a gratuitous number of chances to get back into the match, making it only a matter of time until they did.

Arsenal winger Gervinho has had his three match suspension for violent conduct confirmed today by the FA. The altercation between Gervinho and Barton last Saturday Arsenal had issued an appeal against the three match ban that the Ivory Coast would receive automatically for the red card he picked up after an altercation with Newcastle's Joey [.

News today that the English FA is getting concerned about the use of Twitter among the players under its jurisdiction. Joey Barton - started using Twitter in May Joey Barton has made headlines throughout the summer for his tweets, and on Saturday made headlines for his altercation with Arsenal's Gervinho, which led to the Ivorian [.

It was a trio of MLS players that took the spotlight away from Jurgen Klinsmann in his debut as the UMNT coach. The entrance of Brek Shea, Juan Agudelo and Robbie Rogers provided an offensive flare that was missing from the US attack for most of the game.

Things did started out promising for the Americans.

It was a trio of MLS players that took the spotlight away from Jurgen Klinsmann in his debut as the USMNT coach. The entrance of Brek Shea, Juan Agudelo and Robbie Rogers provided an offensive flare that was missing from the US attack for most of the game.

Things did started out promising for the Americans.

Alan Pardew seems to want an end to the altercation between Joey Barton and the club's hierarchy. Alan Pardew - olive branch extended Alan Pardew suggested at his press conference on Thursday afternoon that Barton's career may not be over at Newcastle, as he said: "I've never closed the door on anyone and I'm not [.