He didn't just win the man of the match vote and the player ratings; he just blew everyone else away and walked although he didn't quite establish a record in either. Andrew Cole scored a higher percentage of the man of the match vote and had a higher player rating when he netted a hat trick in our remarkable comeback at QPR in February 2008. For that game, Cole won 88.9% of the vote and had a player rating of 9.87 out of 10.
Barnes won a massive 82.1% of the vote leaving the rest of the players picking up the scraps. George Boyd came second with 4.4%, Kieran Trippier was third with 3.7% and 2.4% of the vote was enough to win fourth place for Danny Ings.
After that sort of performance against the champions, it was no surprise that six of them had player ratings over eight, but Barnes was way ahead of that and he was again an easy winner with a rating of 9.70 out of 10.
Jason Shackell was second with a rating of 8.50 and was followed by Ings and Trippier who had ratings of 8.33 and 8.18 respectively.
The result gives Barnes the maximum ten points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year with three points for all of Boyd, Ings, Shackell and Trippier.
Those points have won the player of the month for Barnes. He's ended with 35 points from the six games we played in December, which is five points ahead of Ings and six ahead of Shackell.
He's also making a move on the top places in the player of the year table. He's now clear of the pack but remains 11 points behind third place Scott Arfield.
You can still vote for the Newcastle game, with voting ending at the end of today.
You can vote for the man of the match via the front page or the VOTING POLLS page.
The PLAYER RATINGS can be posted on the message board.
The result of the Man City game is below with the December Player of the Year result and the current Clarets Mad Player of the Year Table.
MAN OF THE MATCH
82.1% - Ashley Barnes
4.4% - George Boyd
3.7% - Kieran Trippier
2.4% - Danny Ings
2.0% - Ben Mee
1.4% Dean Marney
1.0% - David Jones & Michael Keane
0.7% - Scott Arfield, Tom Heaton & Jason Shackell
PLAYER RATINGS
9.70 - Ashley Barnes
8.50 - Jason Shackell
8.33 - Danny Ings
8.18 - Kieran Trippier
8.10 - Dean Marney
8.08 - Michael Keane
7.80 - Tom Heaton
7.75 - George Boyd
7.35 - David Jones
7.08 - Ben Mee
6.93 - Scott Arfield
CLARETS MAD DECEMBER PLAYER OF THE MONTH
35: Ashley Barnes
29: Danny Ings
28: Jason Shackell
15: George Boyd
13: Tom Heaton
7: Michael Keane
5: Kieran Trippier
3: Dean Marney
CLARETS MAD PLAYER OF THE YEAR
63: Jason Shackell
61: Danny Ings
53: Scott Arfield
42: Ashley Barnes
32: George Boyd
31: Lukas Jutkiewicz
28: Michael Duff & Tom Heaton
25: Kieran Trippier
21: Dean Marney
17: Stephen Ward
16: David Jones
11: Ben Mee
10: Nathaniel Chalobah
7: Michael Keane
3: Marvin Sordell
1: Matt Gilks, Michael Kightly & Matt Taylor