Inside the prison lives of ex-Premier League stars - including Ian Wright and Tony Adams

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Arsenal and Liverpool, several footballers have found themselves confined to less than lavish prison cells.Daily Star Sport takes a closer look inside the prison lives of ex-Premier League footballers who have opened up on their time inside. READ MORE: Matt Le Tissier’s son defends wife for selling racy nudes saying 'it’s not that deep' Former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder Jermaine Pennant was handed a three month sentence after drunkenly crashing his car in 2005 while playing for Birmingham.Pennant only served a third of that, but admitted that his time inside changed him.

Speaking about the incident in 2011, Pennant said: "I think anyone that goes in there will change. It changed me and made me not want to go back in there ever again."He also said that it took him a while for it to sink in that he was behind bars. "I was, I wouldn't say depressed, but I was sad in myself with the way things were going," he told Sky Sports News."Not playing was adding to the damage.

I was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode."I didn't have a clue, I was in shock, it didn't sink in until about after a week when I was inside that, 'Oh my god, I'm in prison - what have I done with my life?

What have I done with my career?'"Everton hero Duncan Ferguson became the first, and only, player to be jailed for an on-field incident when he was sentenced to three months behind bars for head butting Raith Rovers defender John McStay while playing for Glasgow Rangers in 1994.The towering Scot served 44 days in the city's Barlinnie prison, and while he insists he should never have been locked up, the support he received from Gers supporters was truly overwhelming.He said: "It was wrong me being there, it wasn't fair.