Wolves striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake has broken his silence over his summer court scare and insists: “I’m not a football bad boy.”
The Championship’s Golden Boot winner and Molineux goalscoring hero was fined £2,500, after being found guilty of assaulting a doorman at a Plymouth night club.
The Ebanks-Blake case became the latest in a grisly sequence of headlines for today’s crop of football celebrities, which saw Joey Barton jailed and Southampton duo Nathan Dyer and Bradley Wright-Phillips charged with burglary.
In an exclusive interview with the Express & Star, the 22-year-old Wolves star shuns any suggestion he is part of the game’s ‘brat culture.’
He believes his courtroom experience will quicken his maturity as a footballer.
Speaking for the first time publicly since the incident, the 22-year-old is determined to focus on his game and helping Wolves win promotion, after putting the ordeal behind him.
He said: “I’ve got a good family and good people behind me so for me, it’s always been about football.
“My family are always there for me – through everything, whether I have a poor game or I’m having a ‘down’ day, which rarely happens, my family support me. That’s what family are for.
“It’s all over with and I don’t really discuss it. As people saw last season, my football was the over-riding factor. I’ll talk about football, but for me, it’s something that’s in the past.
“You’ve just got to be sensible and do everything in moderation and that’s what we do.
“It’s what we do as a team and as professionals, that’s what we have to do.”
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