Gabriel Agbonlahor shown on Aston Villa's bench during a Premier League match last season. Glyn Kirk / AFP
Gabriel Agbonlahor shown on Aston Villa's bench during a Premier League match last season. Glyn Kirk / AFP
Gabriel Agbonlahor shown on Aston Villa's bench during a Premier League match last season. Glyn Kirk / AFP
Gabriel Agbonlahor shown on Aston Villa's bench during a Premier League match last season. Glyn Kirk / AFP

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Gabriel Agbonlahor’s Dubai shisha holiday will not draw sanction, Aston Villa announce

Aston Villa say they will not take action against striker Gabriel Agbonlahor after images of him were published smoking shisha in Dubai on holiday.

Reuters

April 05, 2016

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Aston Villa have announced that they will take no further action against forward Gabriel Agbonlahor, who was dropped from the first team on Friday after British media published pictures of him apparently smoking a shisha pipe while on holiday in Dubai.

Caretaker manager Eric Black left out the 29-year-old from the squad for Saturday's 4-0 Premier League defeat by Chelsea, but the player is now free to rejoin his teammates.

“Aston Villa Football Club has completed its investigation into Gabby Agbonlahor’s trip to Dubai over the international break,” the Premier League’s basement side said on Twitter on Tuesday.

“The club will be taking no further action.”

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