{"id":165585,"date":"2026-04-14T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:25:08","slug":"birmingham-city-footballer-charged-with-drink-driving-after-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165585\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City footballer charged with drink driving after collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warwickshire Police said officers were called to a collision on the A3400 near Henley-in-Arden at around 10.30pm on Easter Monday.<\/p>\n<p>German striker Marvin Ducksch, 32, of Solihull, has been charged with drink driving and is due to appear at Warwickshire Magistrates\u2019 Court on May 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.83192094.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Ducksch applauding during a match\" data-title=\"Birmingham City v Stoke City \u2013 Sky Bet Championship \u2013 St. Andrew\u2019s @ Knighthead Park\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Joe Giddens\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Birmingham City\u2019s Marvin Ducksch has been charged with drink driving (Joe Giddens\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on the day of the alleged incident, Ducksch had played in Birmingham\u2019s 2-1 defeat to Ipswich Town at Portman Road.<\/p>\n<p>The EFL Championship club said in a statement: \u201cThe club can confirm that Marvin Ducksch has been charged in relation to an offence of driving with excess alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarvin wishes to apologise to his teammates, staff and supporters of the club and accepts full responsibility for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matter has been dealt with internally and no further comment will be made at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warwickshire Police said officers were called to a collision on the A3400 near Henley-in-Arden at around 10.30pm on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-165585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}