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West Brom's Jonny Evans, Jake Livermore, Gareth Barry and Boaz Myhill named as players who allegedly stole taxi in Barcelona

The four West Brom players who allegedly stole a taxi in Barcelona have been named.

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Jonny Evans, Boaz Myhill, Gareth Barry and Jake Livermore at dinner with team-mates before the early hours incident

They are skipper Jonny Evans, Gareth Barry, Jake Livermore and Boaz Myhill.

The club tonight issued a statement from the four in which they apologised to their team-mates, head coach Alan Pardew, the club and supporters.

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In a statement, they said: "We would like to take this opportunity to apologise to our team-mates, the Head Coach, the Club and especially the supporters for the events which have been the subject of widespread and negative publicity.

"We felt it important we identify ourselves as the players involved in an incident which occurred during the training camp in Spain this week out of respect for team-mates who otherwise could be implicated by association.

"We freely acknowledge and apologise for the break of curfew which we accept represented a breach of the standards of professionalism required of us as representatives of West Bromwich Albion FC.

"The club has informed us that it will now conduct its own inquiry into the incident and we will co-operate fully.

"In the meantime, we would like to assure our supporters that this incident does not reflect the determination and resolve we possess to do all we can to recover a difficult season. "