Anthony Stokes gets suspended sentence over Elvis impersonator attack

The Blackburn Rovers striker pleaded guilty over the attack.

Footballer Anthony Stokes has been hit with a two-year suspended sentence for assaulting an Elvis impersonator in a nightclub.

The Blackburn Rovers striker pleaded guilty last November over the attack in what was then Buck Whaleys on Leeson Street in Dublin on June 8 2013.