An unnamed England and Premier League player is reportedly hooked on sleeping pills and has the habit of combining them with alcohol.
Footballers have previously been warned of the potentially fatal dangers of taking prescription sleeping pills and drinking alcohol as an intoxicant.
And now a Three Lions star has been buying Zopiclone - used to treat insomnia - on the black market and mixing the tablets with champagne and vodka at illegal parties during lockdown, according to The Sun.
The report claims that the footballer's friends fear he will ruin his career if he doesn't get help with the star getting around Premier League drug tests by taking the Class C controlled pills.