Barton begins his jail term

Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton was today starting a six-month jail sentence for hispart in a brutal, alcohol-fuelled street attack. Despite the assurances of his club manager Kevin Keegan that Barton is a changed man, Judge Henry Globe, who described the player as 'aggressive and disgraceful', sent him to prison. The 25-year-old punched one man up to 20 times and left a 16-year-old boy with broken teeth, Liverpool Crown Court was told. Newcastle notes the sentence passed to Joey Barton at Liverpool Crown Court,' said a statement. Barton, cousin Nadine Wilson, 27, and brother Andrew Barton, 20, were captured on CCTV in a number of violent incidents in Liverpool city centre on December 27 last year.