Joey Barton took to social media to fire one last shot at Zlatan Ibrahimovic following his retirement.
With a Tweet captioned:
āCongratulations on a fantastic career. Enjoy retirement @Ibra_official #bignose šš» ššŖš¤£ā
The pair infamously clashed in February 2013 and Barton explained exactly what happened.
Telling LāEquipe, Barton said:
āBefore the game, Elie Baup told me to get under Zlatanās skin, to stop him from turning too easily and controlling aerial balls from their goalkeeper.
āI was winning loads of free kicks, because he was making foul after foul.
āSo he said to me: āYou play hard, so stay on your feetā, so I told him, laughing āYeah, just stop making stupid fouls.ā
āThen he called me an English so-and-so, so I replied: āYeah, Iām English, but youāve got a huge noseā, and I did the gesture showing his huge nose.Ā
āAs for that moment, Zlatan was surprised, because heās Zlatan and no one ever says anything to him.ā
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