Flanagan was sentenced to 40 hours unpaid work for assaulting his girlfriend

Liverpool have said that Jon Flanagan has “severely let down” the club after the defender was sentenced to 40 hours of unpaid work and a community order for assaulting his girlfriend.

Flanagan appeared at Liverpool magistrates’ court today having pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to common assault after an incident involving his partner, Rachel Wall.

The district judge Wendy Lloyd heard Flanagan, 25, pushed and kicked his girlfriend in the early hours of December 22 after a night out in Liverpool city centre.

Liverpool will now consider internal disciplinary action against the player. A spokesman for the club said: “We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the player’s actions during the events that took place resulting in this criminal conviction.

“It leaves his own