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When you go, be sure to ask for the Jeff Bezos “slaphead special.”

This may evolve to Slaphead or Kojak, or similar.

Or “Skinhead” or “Slaphead” – but mainly “Baldy”.

Cue a Twitter storm in which Barton called Gervinho a cheat and the Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer – who as Newcastle's manager suspended him following an ugly dressing-room confrontation – "slaphead".

Barton is usually not one for regrets but it appears he wishes he had thought twice before, erroneously, calling Gervinho a cheat and telling Alan Shearer to "Sort it slaphead" during a series of combative Saturday night outpourings on Twitter.