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LIST | 5 rugby players who struggled with alcohol – but bounced back!

4. Danny Cipriani

Cipriani was arrested and charged for common assault, larceny, assault on police, resisting arrest, and being disorderly on licensed premises in Jersey in 2018. It was reported at the time that Cipriani got into an altercation with a bouncer outside The Little Drift nightclub. He’d also been hit by a bus during a pub crawl years earler

The fly-half bounced back from this and in May 2019 he was voted Player of the Year by the Rugby Players Association. He’s also found a settled relationship, which seems to have calmed down the mercurial playmaker.

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