Wilshere arrested after ‘fracas’

ARSENAL teen star Jack Wilshere was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning following a “fracas”, his spokesman has confirmed.

The 18-year-old midfielder was released on bail following the incident at 2.45am in Kensington High Street, London.

Officers and paramedics called to the scene found a man with minor facial injuries and a woman with a broken arm. Both were taken to a west London hospital for treatment.

Police later stopped a vehicle and arrested four men, two aged 18 and two aged 21, on suspicion of assault.

They were taken to a west London police station and bailed to return in mid-October pending further inquiries, a Met police spokesman said.

Wilshere’s spokesman said: “Jack Wilshere was arrested by police in the early hours following a fracas but was released on bail later. The police have made it very clear that he is an important witness to the incident and played the role of peacemaker and is unlikely to face any charges as a result. Jack has made it very clear he will co-operate fully with the police investigation.”

Meanwhile ex-France team doctor Jean-Pierre Paclet has defended Nicolas Anelka’s role in Les Bleus’ World Cup meltdown and blamed Arsenal’s Samir Nasri for causing problems in the team in recent years.

Nasri was not included in the squad for the World Cup, but Paclet alleges that the 23-year-old was a source of a disquiet which dates back further than June after upsetting captain Patrice Evra and senior professionals Thierry Henry, William Gallas and former Marseille team-mate Franck Ribery.

“Here was a kid with a dozen caps looking down on players with a hundred. Scarcely believable,” Paclet claimed in extracts from his book L’Implosion. “His behaviour gets on the nerves of almost everybody and he has the gift of really annoying Henry, Gallas and Patrice Evra.’’