Liverpool FC defender Jon Flanagan is due in court for sentencing this morning for an assault on his girlfriend.

The full-back has admitted the assault, on Duke Street in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of December 22.

He is due to be sentenced at Liverpool magistrates court today and we will be in court to provide live updates.

At an earlier hearing, the court heard how the violence involved a “kick” and took place when both Flanagan and his girlfriend Rachael Wall were drunk on a pre-Christmas night out.

According to court documents Flanagan assaulted her by beating, an offence which carries a maximum of six months in jail.

Academy graduate Flanagan broke through to Liverpool’s first team in the 2010/11 season.

His only appearance this season has been in the Carabao Cup defeat at Leicester City.