Kieron Dyer has revealed the emotional strife he went through in the weeks after he was falsely linked to the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in a London hotel room in September 2003.
The former Newcastle star was publicly identified as being implicated in the now infamous 'roasting' scandal, which came after a former convent schoolgirl claimed she had been raped in the Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair by a group of Premier League footballers.
Club team-mate Titus Bramble ex-Chelsea striker Carlton Cole were named after they were arrested soon after, but following a three-and-a-half-month inquiry, the Crown Prosecution Service decided against prosecuting the pair.