Police are investigating a city-centre brawl involving Newcastle captain Jamaal Lascelles in which it is claimed a gang of men ‘threatened to shoot’ the player and his brother.
Officers from Northumbria Police were called following the clash on Westgate Road in Newcastle on Saturday August 19.
Lascelles had arrived back on Tyneside following Newcastle’s 1-0 defeat at Manchester City and was on a night out with his younger brother and a friend. The team had been given two days off by Eddie Howe.
They had just left nightclub Chinawhite when it is said a man elbowed Lascelles’ 19-year-old brother in the throat in an 'unproved attack'.