Have just seen the video
Stokes is going to need a damn good lawyer and I think he can forget about Australia
He could be going down for it.
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5 Live announcing new video evidence is "out there" of England vice captain Stokes allegedly throwing up to 15 punches on a night out.
If he is charged (which sounds likely) and even if he's not, surely the guy will not be on the plane to Australia?
Would Stokes would be a massive loss to England?
Discuss...
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Have just seen the video
Stokes is going to need a damn good lawyer and I think he can forget about Australia
He could be going down for it.
The video is on The Sun page
As galling as it is to click on anything to do with it - you can watch it on there.
Just watched the video, talk about ginger rage!!
That’s Stokes out of the tour, and England’s chances of a Ashes win probably gone, will be a huge miss. It’s going to be a long winter of cricket.
Just watched the Sun video and I feel somewhat dirty after doing so
From that, it certainly looks as though he is bang to rights and out of the tour, no matter what the mitigating circumstances.
Stokes is a fantastic all rounder and that could well be that as far as The Ashes is concerned.
There could be a lot of disappointment ahead.
Apparently he is due to get married on Saturday too!
I fear not even Bob Massingberg could get him off this one!
Good. The prick needs putting behind bars.
Seen it. Haven't seen the whole video or what happened in the lead up but looks like the other boy clearly didn't want any of it. Hope he is proud of him self. Kn*b.
He is fighting yes but that looks like an equal effort really
He isn't battering some helpless guy
Edit- Actually hang on I just watched the end of the video............I clicked off it when writing the above....
We know how this story goes. If you are lucky enough to get knocked out by a famous sports person, then milk it to the press, and the make sure he pays a decent settlement to drop the case. It doesn't really matter what you have done in the run up to the event.
Its then down to the ECB to whether he plays in the ashes.
I've read elsewhere, that Stokes was threatened by one of the two 'gentlemen' with a bottle? If this is the case, then he has every right to floor the pair of them. Sadly, the police and the Cricket Board won't see it that way.
I learnt a long time ago, way back in my school days, the only language a bully fully understands is a good hammering
Deserves to be banned for fighting like a tart.
I've seen girls fight better than that.
The latest seems to be that he claims to have come to the defence of two gay men who were being threatened by a bunch of blokes, one armed with a bottle.
He saw the bottle being raised and decided to defend himself by hitting first.
EWCB have banned Stokes "until further notice". As I thought, it doesn't matter what went on before and whether the guy got what he deserved, the guy is a role model for youngsters.
To see somebody behaving like a pissed up thug is certainly not what the governing bodies want from their big well paid stars (with perhaps the ACB being the exception )
Celebs may have got away with it for years but not any more, there are cameras everywhere.
The whole "self-defence" defence will fall apart when it's pointed out he threw around 15 or so punches.
Not the first fracas he's got involved with either... so... sod him. He's got temper issues as evidenced by breaking his hand when hitting locker in dressing room, getting involved during games.
Send him to Guantanemo. Not for this but for being ginger.
Having watched the video, he's f*cked. He had numerous chances to have defused it and gone away, you see the other two idiots have moved away, he keeps following and launches blows to instigate again.
I'm sure Steven Gerrard can sort him out.
So the fuss is hes chinned someone whos come at him armed with a bottle and his mate got a couple of slaps to.
£50 fine for Stokes and 5 year stretch for the tw@t swinging the bottle sounds right.