FORMER Plymouth Argyle player Sylvan Ebanks-Blake is due to

stand trial at Crown court on a charge of assault.

The 22-year-old striker, sold by Argyle to Wolverhampton

Wanderers for £1.5million in January, appeared before Plymouth

Magistrates’ Court yesterday for a committal hearing.

Ebanks-Blake faces a charge of assaulting a man on November 11

last year outside a Plymouth nightclub, causing him actual

bodily harm.

The footballer has already pleaded not guilty to assaulting

Greg Smith outside the Candy Store nightclub.

Ebanks-Blake is also accused of a public order offence.

District Judge Paul Farmer told Ebanks-Blake, who was bought by

Argyle from Manchester United in July 2006, that he would now

appear at Plymouth Crown Court on June 20.

He was granted unconditional bail.