Major blow to shamed ex-footballer Joey Barton as thug’s business faces being struck off

DISGRACED footballer Joey Barton’s personal company faces being struck off for failing to file accounts on time.

A business run by ex Manchester City star Barton, who was convicted of kicking his wife in a drunken row this week, has been served with an order to close.

Joey Barton Promotions has not published legally required accounts and is now facing being struck off by Companies House.

The firm faces a fine of £375 for failing to submit the documents which were supposed to have been published by Christmas Eve. If they are not filed by April 1, the fine will double to £750.

The business’s last financial details for 2022 were published in June 2023 and revealed it was £58,539 in the red.

The firm had just £2,301 in cash at the bank and the only other assets are computer equipment worth £1,958 and a debt of £148 owed to the business.

But it was plunged into the red as it owed creditors £60,988, the accounts showed.

This week Barton avoided jail for pushing his wife over and kicking her in the head after an incident at their home in southwest London in June 2021.

Barton, 42, was convicted of assault and given a 12-week sentence, suspended for two years – meaning he will not go to prison unless he commits another offence.

Wife Georgia Barton, 38, was left with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose after the attack in Kew.

Barton was arrested in his bedroom – still drunk – on the night of the attack, Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told.

He has a chequered history of violence which included burning team mate Jamie Tandy’s eye with a cigar, punching teammate Ousmane Dabo until he blacked out, and a six month prison sentence for punching a man 20 times before turning his anger on a 16-year-old in a Liverpool City Centre bust up caught on CCTV.

Barton also owns between 25%-50% of a management consultancy Resolve Energy which employs 26 people and has nearly £670,000 in assets.