Only weeks after causing trouble in a Danish pizza restaurant and being arrested for criminal damage, Nicklas Bendtner has found himself in trouble with the law yet again.
According to the Evening Chronicle this morning, the man with perhaps the highest of opinion of himself in football – even by the sport’s lofty standards – was nicked by police after his involvement in a brawl at a hotel in Gateshead that occurred in the early hours of the morning on a date in last September, days after a defeat to Chelsea in the Premier League.
Bendtner and another 23-year old man were taken away for questioning, but after an investigation into the incident, the striker, currently on loan at the Black Cats from Arsenal, was released without charge.
A police spokesman said of the incident: “At 2.18am on Thursday, September 13, police received a report of a fight at the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead.
“Officers attended and two men aged 23 were arrested to prevent continued breach of the peace. After investigations, both men were released without charge.”
Sunderland declined to comment on the matter, but we’re hardly surprised; they’re probably fed up of Bendtner and his antics at this stage.
After all, news of the incident comes less than a month since Bendtner and Lee Cattermole were arrested for causing criminal damage to a series of cars in Newcastle, an incident which followed reports of Bendtner begging for free pizza in a Copenhagen takeaway after the staff admirably failed to respond to his ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ approach.
The not so great Dane has hardly been a roaring success on Wearside so far and this latest episode will hardly endear him to new boss Martin O’Neill, a man who doesn’t tolerate ill-discipline amongst his players.
More trouble than he’s worth? It’s certainly starting to look that way. But if James McClean can continue his current blistering run of form, O’Neill won’t have to waste too much sleep over his problem child in the immediate future.
