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Police are investigating a city-centre brawl involving Newcastle captain Jamaal Lascelles in which it is claimed a gang of men ‘threatened to shoot’ the player and his brother.

Officers from Northumbria Police were called following the clash on Westgate Road in Newcastle during the early hours of Sunday August 20. 

Lascelles had arrived back on Tyneside following Newcastle’s 1-0 defeat at Manchester City and was on a night out with his younger brother and a friend. The team had been given two days off by Eddie Howe.

They had just left nightclub Chinawhite when it is said a man elbowed Lascelles’ 19-year-old brother in the throat in an 'unproved attack'. One onlooker says the defender stepped in and pushed the man away.

It is claimed a bottle of vodka was then thrown towards Lascelles and missed his head narrowly. A group of ‘six to eight’ men allegedly then ‘attacked’ the 29-year-old and he was ‘punched from all angles’.