However, the Rangers keeper was demoted to the bench for his role in a drinking session at the team hotel on the return from Amsterdam.

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The Kilmarnock boss backed the decision of the Scotland coach to discipline the pair after they allegedly spent over eight hours of Sunday morning drinking at the team hotel at Loch Lomond following their return from the defeat in the Netherlands.

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Devenport informed Alison that, since Dr Paisley's assertion, the Ulster Unionist MP, Harold McCusker had written to the Secretary of State that the DUP leader's allegation of 'wining and dining' might have been based on a rumour that soldiers who were supposed to be defending the area 'had, in fact, been drinking in Hughes' Hotel, Middletown (South Armagh).

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Last year, about a dozen U.S. Secret Service agents hit the clubs of Cartagena, Colombia for a night of drinking that ended with them bringing women back to their hotel rooms.

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He would carry it himself in order to study at-bats on the plane and in the hotel when the rest of his teammates were, you know, drinking or playing cards or whatever.

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