Warburton blanks Barton questions

Mark Warburton refused to answer questions on the Joey Barton fall-out after Rangers’ goalless draw with Ross County.

The midfielder was told to stay away from the club until Monday after a bust-up with his boss and team-mate Andy Halliday, ruling him out of Saturday’s stalemate which leaves Rangers on the verge of dropping six points and a game in hand behind Celtic just over a month into the season.

But Warburton refused to confirm whether the Gers support had seen the last of the 34-year-old following Tuesday’s training-ground argument and decided to walk out of his post-match news conference early as reporters asked one question too many on the subject.

“I’m not going to talk about Joey Barton,” Warburton said.

“It’s an internal matter that is being dealt with by Rangers Football Club. We won’t make any comment on any internal matter.”

However, Warburton did insist the controversy with Barton which followed the 5-1 loss to Celtic last weekend had not disrupted his build-up to facing Jim McIntyre’s men.

“Not at all,” said the Englishman. “It’s just another matter that you deal with; it’s part of the challenge of day-to-day working life.

“It didn’t affect our preparations. We did very well, we …

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