Two Great Britain rugby league stars face jail for a "terrifying" assault on a couple.
Bradford Magistrates' Court heard Warrington Wolves full-back Stuart Reardon, 27, had been drinking with St Helens stand-off Leon Pryce, also 27, in a Bradford pub.
While watching a rugby match in the bar on July 12 last year, friends told Reardon his estranged wife had a new boyfriend.
Reardon, who said he had drunk four pints and was "feeling a little fresh", asked Pryce to accompany him in a taxi to the flat where Kay Reardon was with her new boyfriend, Damon O'Brien.
When neither Mrs Reardon or Mr O'Brien opened the door to the second-floor flat, Reardon sent a text message to his wife's new boyfriend claiming their young son was in hospital.
Reardon - who had separated from his wife in February 2008 and had begun divorce proceedings in May of that year - then shoulder-barged the door, breaking the frame and the lock, leaving the couple "terrified".
Pryce, from Bradford, then pushed Mr O'Brien, who had armed himself with a rounders bat "for his own protection", causing him to stumble backwards and hit his head and neck on a pedal bin.
Reardon, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to assaulting Mrs Reardon while Pryce admitted assaulting Mr O'Brien.
At a previous hearing, Deputy District Judge Nick Watson told Pryce and Reardon: "You need to understand that a prison sentence is what I have in mind at the moment for this offence."
An additional charge of using violence to gain entry against both defendants was dropped after the prosecution offered no evidence.
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