DISGRACED DANNY: IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE

confirmed my initial reaction,’ he writes. ‘When will Danny stop shooting himself in the foot? ‘You have to trust every player on and off the pitch, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Can Cipriani be trusted? I suspect Eddie will now decide that he can’t and frankly, who could blame him? I am left to sadly conclude that Cipriani has never fully understood that — and now it’s almost certainly too late.’ Defence advocate Mike Preston told the court that Cipriani ‘had too many drinks’ at Drift nightclub in The Royal Yacht Hotel, St Helier, and police were called when he tried to grab a body camera off a doorman. He was later picked up by police but managed to escape from his cuffs and a second officer — PC Jodie Botterill, a Welsh international footballer and former head coach of Jersey’s national women’s team — was needed