The path to becoming a football legend began with being ousted from Carrington by Manchester United.

If you were to ask fans to vote for the greatest player in Premier League history, the answers would be incredibly varied; there are as many Hamlets as there are people.

Manchester United fans would rattle off a whole host of names: George Best, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney, who is still playing for Manchester United.

Liverpool fans were naturally dissatisfied, believing that Kenny Dalglish, Kevin Keegan, and Steve Gerrard were just as qualified as their arch-rivals Manchester United.

For Gunners fans, the number one player is undoubtedly their King Thierry Henry, or perhaps Dennis Bergkamp or Patrick Vieira.

Chelsea supporters will vote for Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, and their captain John Terry.

Even Newcastle fans would use Alan Shearer's name to join in the fun.

However, if we were to look back at the history of the Premier League over the past century and identify the biggest villain, the vast majority of Premier League fans would vote for the same person.

This person is Joey Barton, a defensive midfielder currently playing for Queens Park Rangers.

Joey Barton was born in Merseyside, England in 1982. He was a die-hard Everton fan from a young age. At the age of 14, he was released by Everton's youth academy because he was too short and thus transferred to Manchester City.

Subsequent events proved that Everton had given up not just a player, but a walking powder keg.

Not long after joining Manchester City's first team, Joey Barton was embroiled in a large-scale brawl involving ten people, marking his first public appearance as a villain.

In the same year, at Manchester City's Christmas costume party, Joey Barton poked a lit cigar directly into the eye of reserve team player Jamie Tandy, nearly blinding him. Not long after, Tandy was forced to give up professional football due to vision problems and became a glass cleaner.

In 2005, Joey Barton drove his car directly into a Liverpool fan who was celebrating in the street. Given his identity as an Everton fan, it was hard to believe that this was not an ordinary car accident.

This man's violent tendencies and level of idiocy were fully revealed two months later. He had just taught Liverpool fans a lesson with a car accident, and then, during the preparations for the World Cup in Thailand, he pinned a 15-year-old Everton fan to the ground and beat him severely in a bar in Bangkok. In the end, the Thai government had to intervene and deport him.

The incident that ultimately forced Manchester City to give up on this highly talented villain occurred during a training match at the Carrington training ground in May 2007, when Barton clashed with French midfielder Osman Dabo.

After training, Barton found Dabbo and punched him in the temple from behind, causing him to lose consciousness on the spot. Undeterred, Barton rushed over and punched him several more times, causing multiple lacerations to his teammate's face and suspected retinal detachment.

After receiving a four-month suspended sentence, 200 hours of community service, and a 12-match ban from the Football Association, Joey Barton was forced to leave Manchester City and join Newcastle United.

After behaving himself for about six months, Barton was caught on CCTV punching a 16-year-old boy at McDonald's and knocking out his teeth. He was sentenced to another six months in prison.

Throughout his career, Joey Barton has accumulated nearly 90 red and yellow cards, ranking second in Premier League history, only behind Lee Bowyer's 99. This is not because he played cleaner than Bowyer, but because he has been suspended too many times.

If we only consider suspensions by the number of games played, Joey Barton alone would occupy two spots in the top ten of all time, with his twelve-game suspension ranking first in history. The only case with a longer suspension than his is Cantona's nine-month suspension for kicking a fan.

Countless players have been maliciously fouled by him on the field. One of the most famous is Xabi Alonso, who was nearly sent flying by a double-kick from Joey Barton during a game.

Compared to bad boys like Roy Keane, Vinnie Jones, Lee Bowyer, and Gascoigne, Joey Barton stands out on the villain list because the others either have a clear goal of revenge or attack their opponents in order to win the game.

Only Barton attacked indiscriminately, targeting teammates, opponents, fans, and passersby. In this respect, even Bao Guoping and Weng Wencheng from Armed Reaction were inferior, as those two perverts at least had a clear criminal target.

As a product of Manchester City's youth academy but ultimately kicked out by the team, Joey Barton harbors a deep hatred for Manchester City.

This hatred reached its peak after Manchester City received support from Middle Eastern consortiums and became a rising star in the Premier League.

Joe Hart and Sergio Aguero must have heard of the Premier League's number one villain and knew that the other played for Queens Park Rangers. The reason they underestimated him was because they didn't know that Joey Barton had his eye on them.

On November 5th, local time in the UK, Manchester City, led by interim manager Brian Kidd, traveled to Loftus Road Stadium in the Hammersmith-Fulham district of London to face newly promoted QPR away from home.

Kompany returned from suspension for this match, allowing Manchester City to field their full starting lineup.

Fearing he might mess things up, Brian Kidd stuck with the starting lineup left by Mancini, playing a 4-2-3-1 formation in this match.

Despite Queens Park Rangers' manager being confident before the match and wanting to take advantage of Manchester City's lack of a proper manager to defeat their opponents, his plan was not so easy to implement given the difference in overall strength.

The midfield, comprised of Gareth Barry, Yaya Toure, David Silva, James Milner, and Sergio Aguero, maintained firm control of the ball from the very beginning of the match.

Queens Park Rangers could only rely on fierce physicality and aggressive defense to fend off Manchester City's attacks.

For the first 15 minutes, the game was fragmented, with the referee frequently having to blow his whistle to stop the game and call fouls on the home team players.

As a defensive midfielder, Joey Barton also committed two fouls while contesting possession of the ball.

However, this did not alarm the Manchester City players, as this was their usual style.

Queens Park Rangers are currently 12th in the league thanks to their traditional English style of play: simple and quick long-ball attacks and fierce defense. This is their only means of achieving their goal of avoiding relegation this season.

The real crisis came in the 18th minute of the first half when Yaya Touré chipped a pass to David Silva from midfield.

Under intense pressure from the opposing team, Toure's pass went a little too high, forcing Silva to jump with all his might to chest down the ball when he was unmarked.

Joey Barton, who had been harboring a wicked plan, began his operation when Silva reached the highest point of his jump.