Troy Deeney has extraordinarily leapt to the defence of Jack Grealish after the Aston Villa star broke lockdown rules for a party - just hours after telling people to stay inside.
Villa skipper Grealish, 24, was forced to apologise earlier this week after admitting to flouting the government's guidelines on the lockdown to attend a late-night party at the flat of former team-mate Ross McCormack.
Grealish was pictured after leaving the penthouse apartment, where he crashed his £70,000 Range Rover and damaged two parked cars, and he has since issued a grovelling apology on social media.