Sitten taas Duncan Fergusonin toiminta muistetaan murtovarkaita kohtaan:
A DRUG addict who burgled the home of footballer Duncan Ferguson was yesterday jailed for five years.
Carl Bishop, 37, required two days of hospital treatment after he was caught by the Everton striker at his pounds 2m home in Formby.
A judge at Liverpool Crown Court was told that Ferguson has two homes on the same grounds, one where he lives with his wife and daughter and another which he uses as a gymnasium, utility and storage area.
Bishop, who had taken heroin and cocaine in the days before the burglary, broke into the storage house and stacked up crates of champagne, whisky and other spirits ready to steal.
Ferguson was going to use the gym at 8pm on January 8 when he saw Bishop and challenged him.
Slightly-built Bishop swung at 6ft 4in Ferguson with a vodka bottle which then smashed.
Ferguson punched Bishop in the face and grappled him to the floor.
Anthony Limont, prosecuting, said that Ferguson told police: ``I ducked down and lashed out with my fist and struck him on the side of the face.
``My body followed through and I fell onto him and we both landed on the floor. He stopped struggling and I damaged my knee and was winded.''
Ferguson suffered damage to his knee in the struggle and Bishop was left battered and bruised, with a broken jaw and missing teeth.
After the initial struggle, Ferguson went back to his home to check his wife and daughter were OK.