Joey Barton says the "bad blood" between the coaching staff of Bristol Rovers and their opposite numbers at league-leading Plymouth Argyle remains strong ahead of tonight's clash at Home Park as the Gas try to have their say in the League One promotion race.
Argyle are closing in on a place in the Championship under Steven Schumacher and they will go five points clear of third-place Sheffield Wednesday with a win over the Gas in Devon in a game with multiple subplots.
The crux of the issues between the clubs centres on an incident during the pulsating 2-2 draw between the teams at the Mem in October when Gas first-team coach Andy Mangan was accused of using homophobic language towards a Plymouth staff member, something Barton's right-hand man categorically denies after being charged by the Football Association.
