Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton will remain in jail after a court refused to grant him bail.
The 25-year-old appeared before Liverpool magistrates charged with assault and affray.
Barton, of Foxbank Close, Widnes, Cheshire, has been in custody since he was arrested in the early hours of December 27 in Liverpool city centre.
Barton appeared via video link from Liverpool's Walton Prison wearing a grey prison-issue jumper and jeans.
During the hearing the assault charge against him was upgraded from a Section 39 common assault to a Section 47 assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
It has been alleged Barton and a group of his friends were involved in two separate incidents following a row with another group inside a McDonald's restaurant in Church Street, Liverpool, at around 5.30am last Thursday.
The player's brother, Andrew Barton, 19, from Widnes, is charged with actual bodily harm and affray and Nadine Wilson, 27, from Huyton, Merseyside, is charged with common assault and affray.
They did not appear on Thursday but will stand alongside him in the dock at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on January 16.
Source : www.sportinglife.com
