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| Ravel Morrison charged with assault: West Ham footballer accused of attacking two women in Manchester | |
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| West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison has been charged with assaulting two women. | West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison has been charged with assaulting two women. |
| The 21-year-old, formerly with Manchester United, is accused of attacking a young woman outside a bar in Manchester city centre in the early hours of Sunday morning. | The 21-year-old, formerly with Manchester United, is accused of attacking a young woman outside a bar in Manchester city centre in the early hours of Sunday morning. |
| He is also accused of assaulting the same woman and another 39-year-old woman hours later. | He is also accused of assaulting the same woman and another 39-year-old woman hours later. |
| Morrison, from Urmston, Manchester, was arrested on Wednesday and has been charged with two counts of common assault. | Morrison, from Urmston, Manchester, was arrested on Wednesday and has been charged with two counts of common assault. |
| He is due at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court later today. | He is due at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court later today. |
| A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: "At about 3.20am on Sunday, July 27 2014, police were called to an address on Alexandra Road, Peel Green, Salford, following reports a 19-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman had been assaulted. | |
| "Officers attended and established the young woman had also been assaulted outside a bar in Manchester city centre earlier that evening and a 21-year-old man was subsequently arrested at a later date. | |
| "Ravel Morrison, of Urmston, is charged with two common assaults. | |
| "He is due before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on July 31, 2014." | |
| Morrison was widely tipped to become a Manchester United regular as one of the club's best home-grown prospects in their youth teams. | |
| But the midfielder was sold by former boss Sir Alex Ferguson to West Ham for £650,000 in January 2012. | |
| He has since been loaned out by West Ham to Birmingham and, more recently, QPR. | |
| West Ham declined to comment when contacteD. | |
| Despite being touted as a bright prospect at Old Trafford, Morrison only appeared in the League Cup before Ferguson took the decision to allow him to leave. | |
| West ham boss Sam Allardyce took him to Upton Park but he was soon shipped out to Birmingham on loan, a move that the 59-year-old felt helped Morrison develop his attitude. | |
| Upon his return to Upton Park, Morrison established himself in the West Ham first team and was one of their better performers in the early stages of last season. | |
| He scored a memorable goal in a 3-0 win at Tottenham which was voted as goal of the season by Hammers' fans before a niggling groin injury and a drop in form saw him lose his place in Allardyce's side. | |
| Morrison picked up the first of his four England Under-21 caps in a 4-0 win over San Marino in October and was subject to a bid from Fulham in January - although the offer was rejected. | |
| Instead he was moved on to QPR on a loan deal until the end of the season as he helped Rangers to gain promotion from the Championship before returning to West Ham. | |
| Morrison did not travel with the squad on their recent pre-season tour of New Zealand as he underwent surgery on his groin problem, training alone at the St George's Park national training base in Staffordshire. | |
| His long-term future at West Ham has again been questioned after the club's co-chairman David Sullivan suggested Allardyce was not keen on keeping Morrison in his squad - even though the board wanted to offer the midfielder a new deal. | |
| But Allardyce came out on Wednesday to back Morrison, if he can prove he wants to make it at the club. | |
| "We thought we'd brought Ravel to the forefront of his abilities this time last year," Allardyce told talkSPORT. | |
| "He had a fantastic pre-season and he started the season exceptionally well. I think that drifted away somewhat and he ended up with QPR on loan and ended up helping get them promoted." | |
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