Harry Maguire has ‘no regrets’ over 2020 Mykonos incident

Manchester United captain Harry Maguire insists he has ‘no regrets’ concerning the incident in Mykonos in the summertime of 2020 that noticed him spend two nights in a jail cell and handed a 21-month suspended sentence after being discovered responsible for numerous alleged crimes.

Following an altercation exterior a bar, the fees levelled at Maguire in a Greek courtroom accused him of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and tried bribery.

His aspect of the story is that his youthful sister had been injected with an unknown substance by two males. In making an attempt to get assist, he wound up at a neighborhood police station and alleges being overwhelmed on the legs by folks he didn’t imagine to be real cops.

Maguire had additionally tried to flee believing it to be an tried kidnapping. A Greek courtroom discovered him responsible, though an attraction that additionally nullified the preliminary conviction in the interim might be heard at a re-trial in June 2023.

“Some folks will imagine me; some folks received’t. But one factor I’d say about Mykonos is that I’ve no regrets,” the England worldwide informed The Times.

“I don’t fear about what the result goes to be. I don’t fear about something to do with it as a result of my conscience is so clear about what occurred that evening. The individuals who have been there that evening, there have been 9 of us, all of us perceive what went on and what occurred.”

The complete incident arguably highlighted a naivety in Maguire, whose rise to the very high of the sport was speedy to say the least. He paid to attend Euro 2016 as a fan only a yr earlier than his senior England debut and was a bit-part participant for Hull within the Championship solely three years earlier than Manchester United made him the costliest defender in soccer historical past.

In Mykonos in the summertime of 2020, on the finish of his first yr as Manchester United captain, he was making an attempt to stay a ‘regular life’ and didn’t encompass himself with an entourage or safety.

“I can bear in mind on the time, when it occurred, lots of people have been like, ‘Well, why hasn’t he obtained safety following him round? He’s obtained sufficient cash to try this.’ But the underside line is, I’m on vacation with my household. I’m not on a lads’ vacation,” he mentioned.

“I’m on vacation with my spouse and my sister and my brother. I wish to stay a standard life. If I can get away with out having a safety guard stood beside me watching over me, then I’ll do. It’s not one thing I need, actually. It’s in all probability made me a little bit extra conscious that I’m within the highlight that a lot.”