Joey Barton explains why he jabbed a cigar at Jamie Tandy's eye as 'payback'

Joey Barton has shared dramatic details of two of the most controversial incidents of his career - including jabbing a cigar at Jason Tandy's eye at a Manchester City Christmas social.

He explains how Tandy provoked him in the run-up to the incident by setting fire to his tee-shirt - and the subsequent fight with his-teammate in the toilets.

Barton also gave insight into the dramatic clash between QPR and Manchester City on the last day of the 2011/12 season, when his side battled relegation against a title-chasing Roberto Mancini outfit.

Regarding the Tandy scandal, Barton recalls a fancy dress party attended by City players in 2004 when senior squad members started setting everyone's costumes alight.

'We were on the booze all day Sunday morning, and I think Paul Bosvelt or [Robbie] Fowler started it. They were all in fancy dress in this bar and started setting each other's costumes alight,' he told the Anything Goes With James English podcast.

'So it was the seniors who started it, just burning the edge of it. In five or ten minutes it went round the whole gorup and then it stopped.

'I'd burned Tandy's costume. Someone had got me, and then I'd burned Tandy back - no malice in it. He didn't have the opportunity to get me back, everything gets calmed down, lighters are confiscated off everybody by the security.'

Barton explains that several hours passed as the squad enjoyed karaoke before going back to the hotel to get changed for a team meal in the evening - which is where Tandy got his own back.

He added: 'Everyone is just mingling round in this bar. And I just remember thinking: "what the f*** is that?" And I've looked like that, and there's just a light here [on his right side], and my tee-shirt is on fire.

'So I've had to