Ex-Liverpool star’s pre-season booze-up was so extreme the squad ended up in prison cell

Former Liverpool star Stephen Warnock says a pre-season night out once led to his team ending up in a prison cell.

The 42-year-old who, who spent five years on the Reds' books, shared the tale from his loan spell at Coventry City during the 2003/04 season.

Manager Gary McAllister pushed them hard in training during a pre-season tour in Germany, so allowed a squad night out at the end of the trip to let them unwind.

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Speaking on the Undr The Cosh podcast, Warnock recounted how a drinking session spiralled out of control when they were banned from entering a nightclub. "We were on tour and we'd had a tough pre-season so [McAllister] said we needed to have a bit of team bonding," remembered the former full back.

The players enjoyed their day out on what seemed like a floating bar down a canal. Later, they planned to continue partying into the night, reports the Mirror. Warnock recalled: "So a few of us wandered down to the local nightclub, it was like a five minute walk.

"We get chatting to the doorman or the owner or whoever it was and we were like, 'We're a football team from England, we've got about 30 lads, are we alright to come in tonight with shorts on and stuff?'

"And he was like, 'Yeah yeah no problem'. So we go back to our hotel and we're drinking for few more hours, and when we get back to the club he said, 'You're not coming in', and we were like, 'Why not? We spoke to you face to face', and he was like, 'Nah nah'."

Things quickly escalated when one of Warnock's team-mates, David Pipe, confronted the doorman, who retaliated by