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Joey Barton: 'Queens Park Rangers deserve to go down'

QPR captain Joey Barton admits that he and his teammates deserve to be relegated from the Premier League.

By Jack Prescott, Rugby Editor | 10 May 2015

Joey Barton has admitted that Queens Park Rangers deserve to be relegated from the Premier League following their 6-0 thrashing by Manchester City.

The R's were blown away at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, bringing an end to their stay in the top flight.

Having struggled at the wrong end of the table all season, Barton concedes that QPR can have no complaints with falling into the second tier of English football.

"Gutted for everyone involved with the football club. Today was embarrassing but it's not been good enough since July," he tweeted. "You get out of life what you put in. Hurts to say but the league table does not lie. We don't deserve to stay in this league.

"We have to finish our last two games with integrity and as a club come back stronger for this painful experience. Sorry to all the fans who have spent their hard earned money supporting us up and down the country all season. I feel what you feel."

QPR play their final home game of the season on May 16 when they welcome Barton's former club Newcastle United to Loftus Road.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Leicester City Leicester	45	31	4	10	89	39	50	97
2	Leeds United Leeds	45	27	9	9	80	41	39	90
3	Ipswich Town Ipswich	44	26	12	6	88	56	32	90
4	Southampton	45	25	9	11	85	62	23	84
5	Norwich City Norwich	45	21	10	14	79	63	16	73
6	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	45	20	12	13	67	47	20	72
7	Hull City	45	19	13	13	68	59	9	70
8	Middlesbrough	45	19	9	17	68	61	7	66
9	Coventry City Coventry	44	17	13	14	68	55	13	64
10	Preston North End Preston	45	18	9	18	56	64	-8	63
11	Bristol City	45	17	11	17	53	47	6	62
12	Cardiff City Cardiff	45	19	5	21	51	65	-14	62
13	Swansea City Swansea	45	15	12	18	59	64	-5	57
14	Watford	45	13	17	15	60	58	2	56
15	Sunderland	45	16	8	21	52	52	0	56
16	Millwall	45	15	11	19	44	55	-11	56
17	Queens Park Rangers QPR	45	14	11	20	45	57	-12	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	45	14	11	20	45	60	-15	53
19	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	45	13	11	21	58	74	-16	50
20	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	45	14	8	23	42	68	-26	50
21	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	45	12	12	21	58	70	-12	48
22	Birmingham City Birmingham	45	12	11	22	49	65	-16	47
23	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	45	9	18	18	48	75	-27	45
R	Rotherham United Rotherham	45	4	12	29	32	87	-55	24