Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton claims modern footballers have lost touch with reality.
Yes, the 27-year-old, sentenced to six months in jail for assault and affray in recent years, insists his fellow pros have got it wrong.
He claims to have his feet on the ground while his fellow footballers are living in a world of self-indulgence and delusion.
"A lot of them are so detached from reality it's untrue, and there was a stage when I was like that," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"It's only the fact I'm grounded by the trouble I have been in that's forced me away from being in the football world.
"Driving round in flash cars and changing them like you change your socks, wearing stupid diamond watches and spending money like it's going out of fashion in the middle of a recession when some people are struggling to put food on the table for the kids - it's not the way to do it."
So how does Barton keep himself grounded? By grounding a fellow reveler on a Saturday night? By reaching out to the common man with and thumping him in the face?
May be Saint Joey ain't the person to preaching from the pulpit.
Barton is currently recovering from a foot - unrelated to a random act of violence.
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