Barton was sent off and sparked a melee in which he admitted afterwards he tried to get a Man City player sent off.
Taylor said: “To say ‘I wanted to take one of them with me’, you think: ‘Joey, if you come out with stuff like that, you are going to deserve to be heavily sanctioned.’ He is his own worst enemy when he says stuff like that and he has been upsetting a lot of people in the game with good reputations. At the moment he is doing himself no favours.”
