PARIS, May 6 (Reuters) - Olympique Marseille midfielder Joey Barton was handed a two-game suspended ban for calling Paris St Germain's Brazilian defender Thiago Silva an "overweight ladyboy" on Twitter, the Ligue 1 club said on Monday. "The National Ethics Committee has handed a two-match suspended ban to Joey Barton for 'inappropriate comments' after his tweets about a Paris St Germain player," OM said on their website (
www.om.net). Barton, who has more than two million followers on Twitter, used the microblogging site to insult Thiago Silva last month. ...
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