Danny Drinkwater Passes Burnley Sanctions After Incident at the Night Club

Burnley manager Sean Dyche gave Danny Drinkwater a second chance after the Chelsea loaned midfielder was injured in an incident outside the club.

Drinkwater was filmed with a facial injury after being involved in a drunken conflict with Scunthorpe United player Kgosi Nthle for arguing with a woman at a nightclub called Chinawhite Manchester.

The former Leicester City star, who won the Premier League title with The Foxes in 2016, suffered an ankle injury that prevented him from entering the match for several weeks.

Drinkwater has had a bad season since moving to Chelsea, having almost never played for West London, before being sent by new Blues coach Frank Lampard to Burnley.

But the director of The Clarets, Sean Dyche, did not want to give up on Drinkwater. "They (soccer players) are always human, they have a personal life, which is sometimes not private." "Sometimes they also get involved in problems they cause themselves," Dyche said in the press, as Foxsport reported.

"He (Drinkwater) is of course old enough and wise enough to know that he has to do something not to get involved in the problem but sometimes it happens."

"You can't just talk about team development if that's good news, you also have to work with players if everything isn't going well."

"The situation is somewhat like this, talk to him and tell him: first what happened, what situation caused it, okay, let's go, now where are we going. Think that's where we are now."

Dyche refused to reveal whether Burnley had convicted Drinkwater, who pleaded guilty to alcohol-related driving problems earlier this year. "I just talked to him, the rest is private property."

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