Barton: FA tried to 'hush' me

Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton claims he was told to moderate his comments on Twitter at a meeting with the Football Association.Barton, who has become one of the biggest personalities on Twitter thanks to his controversial opinions, claims the FA asked him to moderate his language at a recent meeting.But the midfielder has no plans to stop being controversial with tweets that have extended from football into political punditry.Speaking at the Professional Players Federation national conference, Barton side: "I feel that the FA came to hush me down or make me not have an opinion."If they came to do that, they picked the wrong person, because there's no way I can be like that."If I didn't have an opinion, I'd cease to exist."