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.. Small Dickov (13/03/04)


More of the players side has come out today in the Sun and you couldn't make it up.

The girls had a go at Dickov saying they bet he'd have a small willy, and he said "you've go a fat bum". The judge must have wondered what the hell he had in front of him. The interesting bit is...apparently it was Freund (married, 2 kids) who had the consensual sex.

Here's the Sun's story...

A JIBE about the size of soccer star Paul Dickov’s manhood triggered the Leicester City “rape” case, the accused players insist.

The Sun can reveal that Dickov and team-mates Keith Gillespie and Frank Sinclair have told a Spanish judge that they did not have any sexual contact with the women.

But fellow player Steffen Freund a married dad-of-two, admitted having consensual sex with one of the three women involved in the scandal.

Dickov, Gillespie and Sinclair — who flew back to Britain yesterday after being freed on bail — said the rape claims were made after they became embroiled in an angry clash with their accuser and her two pals.

Team captain Dickov said under oath that one woman grabbed him by the neck during an argument which broke out after she told him: “You’re very short and I bet you have a little d***.”


His team-mates said they simply pulled the woman off 5ft 5in Dickov as they tried to break up the row.

The players’ defence was revealed to The Sun by a legal source.

They told their stories in a dramatic court showdown in Cartagena, southern Spain, on Thursday night — at which the women also gave their version of events.

Striker Dickov, 31, spent 15 minutes giving evidence to Judge Jacinto Areste.

He claimed he went to have a crafty cigarette in Gillespie’s room, No 305, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in La Manga — where Leicester had gone for warm weather training.

When he got there he found the 29-year-old winger chatting and having drinks with the three African-born women.

But within minutes one of the trio began poking fun at his height — then made the manhood jibe.

The legal source said: “Dickov replied, ‘But you’ve got a fat bottom.’ Then he told how the girl taunted him, saying, ‘Your wife would love to have a bottom like mine.’

Dickov hit back, saying ‘No, my wife is tall and beautiful.’


“He told the court how the girl suddenly took offence and grabbed him by the neck.

“Dickov said they were separated by other players in the room and the girls were ushered out.”

German international midfielder Freund, 34, answered the judge’s questions for ten minutes.

The source said: “Freund admitted that he did have sex with one of the girls that night.

“He admits chatting to the girl who was sitting on a sofa in the hotel casino in the early hours of Monday March 1.

The pair went back to Room 301, where all three of the girls say they were staying. Freund maintains he went back to his room after finishing with the girl.

“But he described how about 15 minutes later he heard raised voices from Gillespie’s room and went to investigate.”

The midfielder said he found one woman holding Dickov by the throat and shouting abuse.

He added that he helped to get her off, then ushered her and her pals out of the room.

The 36-year-old woman with whom Freund had sex then faced a barrage of questions from the judge lasting 50 minutes.

She did not dispute that she romped with him but claimed
he did not return to his room afterwards.

The hearing was also told how the soccer stars and women crossed paths in the hotel.

One woman claimed defender Sinclair, 33 yesterday, approached them as they dined near the table where the players were eating.


He is said to have told them: “You are my sisters” — a reference to their colour.

He chatted to them in a friendly way for a while. And the two groups bumped into each other later in the hotel casino.

Judge Areste freed the players on £200,000 bail at the end of the hearing, which lasted 14 HOURS.

The trio, who had been in Sangonera jail for more than a week, flew home on a budget easyJet flight from Alicante to Luton.

But other passengers were outraged when the flight was called in the departure lounge — and the stars were marched to the head of the queue by Leicester’s chief executive Tim Davies.

They were then allowed on to the plane first — as other travellers jeered.


One holidaymaker said: “They were treated like VIPs. You’d have thought they’d have shown a little more humility.”

There was more anger at Luton, where a special minibus was laid on for them while other trippers took a standard bus to the terminal. The players were then whisked away with a police escort.

Leicester spokesman Paul Mace said the three were “in good spirits”.

But they would not be considered for selection for the Foxes’ game against Birmingham City today because they had endured a “difficult time” and need to be with their families.

Mr Mace added: “They will now be engaging their own legal advisers and will be working very hard to prove their innocence.”

He revealed that Leicester players had until now been allowed a drink after a game, but their bar at the club would now be alcohol-free

The Sun also has a comment in its Sun says coulumn again that many fans will identify with.

"WHY should anyone feel sympathy for the freed Leicester footballers?

Their club says they won’t play this weekend because they had a tough time behind bars.

Phooey! It’s their own stupid fault.

Fans would think a lot more of Leicester City FC if the club had the guts to say the trio weren’t playing because they’d let everyone down.

They were on a special trip to boost morale so they could try to avoid relegation.

They repaid that generosity — paid for by the fans who buy tickets — by going out on the lash and mixing with tarts.

Spare us the crocodile tears."


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