Talksport pundit suggests Warburton’s personality could be to blame for Barton’s Rangers outburst

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Rangers boss Mark Warburton has banished Joey Barton from Ibrox until Monday.

Talksport pundit Perry Groves has suggested Mark Warburton’s personality could be to blame for Joey Barton’s well-publicised outburst at Rangers.

Barton, who later phoned the station to explain his situation, has been banished from the Premiership side’s Murray Park training complex until Monday and won’t feature in Saturday’s visit of Ross County.

It follows a post-Old-Firm bust-up with fellow Ibrox midfielder Andy Halliday, in which Barton has admitted his part but maintains he has not done anything wrong.

The 34-year-old is no stranger to controversy, having been involved in numerous on- and off-field incidents throughout his career.

And Groves, one of two co-hosts on Friday’s Jim White show, asked: “Is anybody surprised that Joey Barton has caused a trouble at a football club?” To which White was quick to point out: “He didn’t do it at Burnley (his previous club).”

Groves added: “The reason, I’d say, is if it happened at Burnley, you’ve got Sean Dyche there who is a different sort of manager to Mark Warburton and he would have grabbed him by the scruff of the neck.

“I think Joey was probably a little bit more fearful of Sean Dyche than he would be of Mark Warburton because Mark Warburton is a very nice, sort of holistic, sort of manager.”

Groves, the former Arsenal winger, had earlier slated Barton for his role in Rangers’ Old Firm drubbing, saying: “Joey Barton apparently told a few ‘home truths’ right?

“And you think, no no, why are you telling home truths? You were completely innocuous in that game when you got battered 5-1, so you don’t have any right to tell a home truth because you was actually part of that diabolical performance.”

Barton had previously engaged in a war or wards with Celtic counterpart Scott Brown, to whom he claimed he was superior, and mocked Bhoys boss Brendan Rodgers on a separate Talksport appearance – accusing him of having a mid-life crisis.