Barton: FA tried to \'hush\' me

Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton claims he was told to moderate his comments on Twitter at a meeting with the Football Association.Barton, who has become one of the biggest personalities on Twitter thanks to his controversial opinions, claims the FA asked him to moderate his language at a recent meeting.But the midfielder has no plans to stop being controversial with tweets that have extended from football into political punditry.Speaking at the Professional Players Federation national conference, Barton side: \"I feel that the FA came to hush me down or make me not have an opinion.\"If they came to do that, they picked the wrong person, because there\'s no way I can be like that.\"If I didn\'t have an opinion, I\'d cease to exist.\"