Warren Barton

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Warren Barton
Personal information
Full name	Warren Dean Barton
Date of birth	19 March 1969 (1969-03-19) (age 39)
Place of birth	London, England
Playing position	Defender
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989–1990 1990–1995 1995–2001 2001–2003 2003–2004 2003–2004 2004–2005	Maidstone United Wimbledon Newcastle United Derby County Queens Park Rangers → Wimbledon (loan) Dagenham and Redbridge Total	042 0(0) 180 (10) 164 0(4) 054 0(0) 003 0(0) 005 0(0) 002 0(0) 450 (14)
National team
1991–1994 1995	England B England	003 0(0) 003 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Warren Dean Barton (born 19 March 1969 in Stoke Newington, London) is a former English football player.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Wimbledon 1.2 Newcastle United 2 International career 3 Retirement 4 References

[edit] Club career

He began his league career with Maidstone United, who swapped him with Dagenham F.C. for three players and a manager, John Still. All three players, plus Still, chose not to turn professional following the club's promotion to the football league in 1989 (Still later changed his mind and managed Peterborough United and Barnet).

It was soon clear that Barton was far too classy for the third division, although he did show signs of defensive frailties. Moving forward at speed up the flank with the ball, Barton was a constant threat to defences because, given the chance to put the ball into the box, his accuracy was unerving.

[edit] Wimbledon

Barton was transferred to Wimbledon in 1990 for £300,000, a UK record fee for a third division player at the time, one year before Maidstone went bankrupt. During his time at Wimbledon he was instrumental in keeping them in the Premiership, and quickly became one of the most highly-rated defenders in England. However, Barton had the most successful spell of his career with the Dons after they moved him into midfield, where that accurate passing provided many goals for the crazy gang's forwards.

[edit] Newcastle United

In 1995 he became the most expensive defender in English football when he moved to Newcastle United for £4million, joining the "The Entertainers" being assembled by Kevin Keegan. Everything looked rosy for Barton, and a few England caps followed, his classy, comfortable style on the ball earned him a reputation as a true footballing full-back. His attacking role under Keegan however meant he didn't always suit the national team and he didn't make too many more appearances for England.

With Newcastle losing out on trophies due to such a gung ho attitude Barton, for the first time in his career, found himself under fire and was moved on to Derby County. He was briefly loaned back to Wimbledon before retiring as a professional player in 2004.

[edit] International career

Barton made his debut for England in the infamous February 1995 friendly away match against the Republic of Ireland which was abandoned after only 27 minutes because of rioting extreme-right ^[1]political activists^[2]. Later that year, he earned his second and third against Sweden and Brazil respectively. In the latter, which proved to be his last international match, he was only a very late substitute coming on for John Scales.

[edit] Retirement

Warren Barton ended his playing days where he began, with Dagenham & Redbridge in the 2004–05 season and now coaches the side during the week, working as a TV pundit at the weekend. He also runs a travel agency.

In 2006, Warren Barton was part of ITV4's World Cup team of pundits. He presented his own comedy segment entitled 'Warren Barton Travel Agent' in which Warren provided a comical breakdown of each country taking part in the World Cup.

On 25 July 2007, Barton was arrested in company of former Newcastle United team-mate Rob Lee, after being found in a stolen car in London.^[3]

Barton represented Newcastle United for Sky One's "Premier League All Stars". The match took place on 26 September 2007 and finished 3–3. In the resulting penalty shootout, Barton missed his penalty to knock Newcastle out of the tournament.

[edit] References