UPDATE: Clarke Carlisle pleads guilty to drink driving offences

Former footballer Clarke Carlisle outside his home in Cattal, York.

Former Burnley, Blackpool, Preston North End and Leeds United footballer Clarke Carlisle has pleaded guilty to a drink-driving offence.

The 35-year-old, still bearing the facial scars from his December 22 suicide attempt in a crash which left him in a coma until mid-January, spoke clearly as he stood in the dock at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in north London.

The former Professional Footballers’ Association chairman admitted failing to provide a sample on December 20.

He also pleaded guilty to a charge of driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence on the same date, when police officers spotted a Mercedes travelling in an “erratic” manner, prosecutor Zahid Hussain said.