Joey Barton ... punished for Twitter outburst. Source: Adam Davy / AAP
Controversial Marseille midfielder Joey Barton has been handed a suspended two-game ban by the National Ethics Commission (CNE) in relation to a string of insults directed at Paris Saint-Germain's Thiago Silva last month.
French football's ethics committee previously said it was unable to rule on Barton's comments because they had been made in English and not French.
Barton had taken to his Joey7Barton Twitter account to launch a tirade against Silva in which he called the Brazil centre-back a "pussy'' and "a overweight ladyboy''.
However his club said he had now been punished.
"The National Ethics Commission has given Joey Barton a suspended two-match ban for 'incorrect sentiments' in his tweets aimed at the PSG player," a Marseille statement read.
The club had sent a lawyer to the CNE meeting earlier in the day. It had previously met in mid-April when it said it was unable to judge the case.
Marseille said only the CNE could decide to remove the suspension of the ban and not the French Football League.
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