'Good lad' Barton is set to face Baggies
HE WAS unable to avoid making a controversial return to the first team at Sunderland last weekend but Joey Barton will still make his first start for Newcastle in more than five months against West Bromwich Albion tonight.
Barton was predictably targeted by opposition fans during the 2-1 derby defeat on Saturday and while the troubled midfielder was more of a victim on that occasion, as he was pelted with coins and bottles as he warmed up, he inflamed the situation when he kissed his Newcastle badge in response.
That latest episode, though, has done nothing to dampen the support Barton has received in the dressing room with Cameroon international Geremi arguing the man he has known at Newcastle is a completely different person to the reputation he heard before they were team-mates.
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