QPR skipper Joey Barton admits he's not normal.

Barton was sent-off in defeat to Norwich City this week.

Before the events unfolded at Loftus Road, he told FHM: "You know what - people can call me a w*****, they can call me a thug, they can call me what they want.

"But the most insulting thing you can ever call me would be normal. Because I'm actually really peculiar. I've only got on the way I have in life because I am different, and isn't that brilliant?

"The problem was I didn't used to like myself much. I didn't understand what was going on inside me. I didn't understand why I was feeling the way I felt.

"I couldn't make head nor tail of it because, to all intents and purposes, being successful at your chosen profession, having a lot of money, and all the other things that come with it - they should make you happy."

He continued: "I'm the first person to recognise the mistakes I've made. The one thing about humans - which I think a lot of people struggle to accept - is that we are fundamentally flawed.

"We can build satellites. We can do a whole manner of interesting and incredible things. But the one thing that we can guarantee is that we are flawed."