{"id":225591,"date":"2025-06-30T03:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225591\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:18:16","slug":"former-liverpool-captain-charged-with-drink-driving-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225591\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool captain charged with drink driving after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ince&#8217;s Range Rover crashed into the central reservation near Neston on Saturday evening<\/p>\n<p>21:30, 29 Jun 2025Updated 21:32, 29 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_GettyImages-460904327.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Ince\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Paul Ince(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Former Liverpool and England ace Paul Ince has been charged with drink driving. The 57-year-old ex-midfielder crashed his Range Rover into the central reservation near Neston, in Cheshire, on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police attended the scene and arrested him, later charging him with drink driving. He is set to appear before Chester Magistrates next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Cheshire Police told the Daily Mail: &#8220;At around 5pm on Saturday 28 June, police were called following reports of a collision on Chester High Road, Neston.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/alexander-isak-liverpool-transfer-twist-31957672\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Isak to Liverpool transfer twist as Chelsea agree shock deal<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/darwin-nunez-liverpool-future-latest-31957465\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin Nunez Liverpool future latest as Napoli &#8216;consider&#8217; alternatives despite green light<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The incident involved a black Range Rover which had collided with the central reservation barrier. Officers attended the scene and arrested a 57-year-old man,&#8221; reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/breaking-paul-ince-drink-driving-35472509\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Paul Ince, of Neston, has since been charged with drink driving. Ince has been bailed to appear at Chester Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday 18 July.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The crash occurred near Heswall Golf Club &#8211; a location where Ince has previously posted pictures from on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ince played for West Ham, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-united-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>, Inter Milan, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/liverpool-fc\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>, Middlesbrough and Wolves during an illustrious career spanning from 1986 to 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">His most successful stint as a player was at United, where he bagged two <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/barclays-premier-league\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> titles, two FA Cups and the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/football-league-cup\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">League Cup<\/a> under the management of Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ince earned 53 caps for England, playing at Euro 1996, the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 and was the first black man to captain the Three Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Following his retirement, he ventured into management, leading teams such as Macclesfield, MK Dons, Blackburn, Notts County, Blackpool and Reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He departed from his last role at Reading in 2023 and has been without a club since then. Ince has also served as a pundit for media outlets like Sky Sports and continues to frequently discuss Premier League football, particularly his old team United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">His son, Tom, is currently a winger for Watford, having previously played under his father at Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Ince&#8217;s Range Rover crashed into the central reservation near Neston on Saturday evening 21:30, 29 Jun 2025Updated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-fc","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114770156476120287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}