Barton was on the receiving end of a hefty challenge from Henry in the closing stages of the Hoops' 3-0 victory at Molineux and had a heated exchange with him on the pitch. Later on Twitter Barton said that Henry should "keep his trap firmly shut" and compared him to a Sunday league player. And on Sunday Barton continued to air his views about the Wanderers man, who he insisted on calling Kelvin Henry. "Kelvin Henry - he loves it, doesn't he," Barton told Sky Sports' Goals on Sunday programme. "Always sticking his foot in and trying to hurt people. Why doesn't he do it when it is 0-0 in the game? "He is chirping up all week saying he is going to do x,y and z to me and then he lets himself down massively by not even turning up on Saturday afternoons. "He should concentrate more on playing and less on talking a good game." Henry angered Barton with some heavy tackles during a match between Wolves and Newcastle last season, and later aimed a verbal dig at the then-Magpies player. Barton today made it clear that there is no love lost between the pair. He said: "Everything I read from him, I really don't like him. I'm going to go on record saying that. "I know from his challenges on me that he doesn't like me - I'm not going to mince my words. "He has gone out to make a name for himself in my opinion. He keeps doing these interviews saying he is this throw-back to this old-fashioned footballer. "I've made challenges and I embrace the fact that there is a physical element to our game, but I think there is a fine line between being physical and actually going out to hurt people, to make a name for it. "No-one knew Kelvin Henry before he started kicking lumps out of me in that game (last season)." When the point was made to him that he was not going to calm the situation down by continuing to talk about it, Barton said: "I don't want to. "Every time I play against him he is non-existent. If he wants to carry it on, in my opinion it is not the shrewdest move because he obviously can't handle the situation." Barton certainly had the last laugh yesterday as QPR put in an impressive display to run out comfortable winners against Wolves. The 29-year-old - who joined the Hoops last month having been made available on a free transfer by Newcastle after criticising them on Twitter - scored his first goal for his new club in the eighth minute when he converted a cross from Shaun Wright-Phillips. The visitors extended their advantage two minutes later thanks to Alejandro Faurlin's strike from the edge of the box and added a deserved third with three minutes of normal time remaining, substitute DJ Campbell opening his own account for the Rs by sliding in Armand Traore's pass. As well as clashing with Henry, Barton also sparked controversy towards the end of the game by gesturing to the crowd, using his fingers to indicate the scoreline. Barton today defended his actions and admitted the hot reception he receives at stadiums helps to motivate him. "I can't repeat on live television what the crowd are chanting at me, and they are throwing stuff at you - then when you smile back at them and just remind them what score it is, you're in the wrong," Barton said. "I'm just having a laugh really. If they want to give me a little bit of verbals and make judgements on me, surely I'm allowed to tell them what score it is? "Sometimes when we are getting beaten in games as I have been, people are singing 'Barton, Barton, what's the score?' and you just have to take it on the chin. "But yesterday they were saying what they say and I was just reminding them what the score is." He continued: "Every time I play, everywhere I go I run the gauntlet, so for me it's quite normal. "For me to go to an away ground and get booed or get verbally abused is the norm. I have to thrive (on it), or you perish. "There is a sort of sick side to me that means if I didn't, it would worry me a little bit - (I would think) 'why are they not booing me?' "But what is great is that any team I play in, it frees other people up. I've become hardened to it. "It would be nice to go to places and get a good reception, but it would be strange - I'm not really used to it. It is a pantomime, that is what it gets like." Barton also used his Twitter account yesterday to question the thinking of Wolves manager Mick McCarthy, who said in the build-up to the match at Molineux that every team "from Kuwait to Kuala Lumpur to Kansas City to Wolverhampton" had been offered the midfielder as his spell at Newcastle came to an end. Barton wrote: "'Wolves snubbed me' I read in this morning papers hahahahahaha....don't know what Mick's been smoking......" Although there is speculation that Barton might be in trouble with the Football Association over his online comments, it is thought unlikely that action will be taken given that he has not been punished for posts in the past. However, having taken his criticism of Henry a step further today, he could still be charged with bringing the game into disrepute.
