On-loan Joey Barton to serve 12-match ban at Marseille

The English Football Association has insisted that on-loan Joey Barton must serve the remainder of his 12-game ban at Marseille.
　
The FA has written to French Football Federation to impose the punishment on the Queens Park Rangers midfielder.
　
Barton, 30, was suspended following his sending-off in QPR's final game of the season at Manchester City.

The midfielder has served three games of his ban, missing QPR's first three games of the season before moving to France.
　
Fifa rules state that sanctions imposed on a player before transfer 'must be enforced or applied by the new association at which the player is registered'.
　
A statement from the French League (LFP) said: 'Upon the transfer of Joey Barton from Queens Park Rangers to Olympique Marseille, the English Football Association transmitted to the French Football Federation the disciplinary sanction he was subject to in the English league.
　
'In accordance with article 12 of Fifa's Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players, the sanction is applicable in France.'
　
The midfielder will be unavailable for Marseille's games in Ligue 1 and the Coupe de la Ligue, but will be free to play in the Europa League. 　
　Sept. 7, 2012.