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Chelsea legend reveals boozy Christmas party tactic that stopped him ‘being in a coma for seven days’
CHELSEA legend Gus Poyet has recalled the sneaky Christmas party tractic he used to avoid drinking too much booze.
The former Blues star jokingly explained how he cleverly avoided “being placed in a coma for seven days” during Chelsea nights out.
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Poyet reckons he mastered the practice of safe drinking during his five years in West London between 1997 and 2001.
In fact, the Uruguayan finally held his hands up to admit that he would turn up hours late to avoid a deadly hangover.
Poyet told The Times:“For Christmas nights out in London the players would get together at two o’clock, so I would get there at seven.
“If I start at two — I’m not going to name names but the way some could drink was unbelievable.
“And the next day, they train — no problem. Me, I would be in a coma for seven days.”
When asked about his social life at Chelsea, he said: “Top. But the drinking culture — I was shocked. I remember being injured, my first night out.
“They gave me a beer and I’m holding it, I don’t know if I’m going to drink. And then they bring me another one and put it in my other hand.
“I adapted. I knew you have to give something of yourself and even if I wasn’t a big drinker I needed to be present. Part of the team.
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“So I never missed a night out, but did it my way.”
When asked about the football, Poyet said: “It was physical. I liked it. Away from home, north, it was always tough. Leeds!
“A typical question they ask me everywhere in the world is: ‘who was the toughest player you play against?’
“Well, every time you were facing Roy Keane you needed to be prepared. Because you knew he was coming.”
Poyet scored 49 goals in 145 Chelsea midfield appearances after joining as a free agent.
He joined Tottenham in May 2021 for around £2.2m and scored 14 goals in his debut season, helping Spurs reach the League Cup final where they lost 2-1 to Blackburn.
His time at Spurs was blighted by injuries after he sustained cruciate ligament damage for the second time in his career in August 2002.
After hanging up his boots in 2004, Poyet began his coaching career as assistant coach of Swindon Town.
He later managed Brighton, Sunderland, AEK Athens and the Greece national team until his contract ended in March this year.
Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are to take part in an exhibition event against Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas on 17 December.
The 18-hole challenge will pit two of the top-ranked PGA Tour players against two of the leading names from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, with organisers of the made-for-television event now confirming the location and date.
The details of the contest, which is being billed as ‘The Showdown’, were announced against a backdrop of ongoing talks between the PGA Tour and LIV’s backers, the Saudi Arabian Investment Fund (PIF) about a possible merger.
The format of the competition has yet to be finalised.
Shadow Creek Golf Course previously hosted the first version of ‘The Match’, the predecessor to ‘The Showdown’, between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
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Arsenal star William Saliba ‘in transfer talks with Real Madrid’ as Spanish giants make Gunners star ‘top priority’
REAL MADRID have reportedly made William Saliba their top priority for a shock transfer.
The Arsenal star is widely considered one of the best centre-backs in world football.
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His form for the Gunners has seen him cement himself as a regular in the starting XI for France.
And now Los Blancos want to take him to the Bernabeu.
According to Le10Sport, Real Madrid are hoping to follow up the signing of Kylian Mbappe this year by adding his compatriot Saliba next summer.
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England interim manager Lee Carsley says John Stones “deserves” England captaincy as he takes the armband from Harry Kane who will not be fit to start their Nations League match against Greece at Wembley.
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Jude Bellingham set for shock position change for England as Lee Carsley experiments with new formation in training
LEE CARSLEY could opt to play Jude Bellingham in a new position for England’s Nations League clash with Greece tonight.
Interim boss Carsley has been experimenting with using Bellingham as a STRIKER in training this week, according to the Mail.
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Bellingham, who normally forms part of a midfield trio for the Three Lions, has reportedly been tested as a deep-lying striker in the training session’s building up to tonight’s game.
The news comes after it was confirmed that Harry Kane wouldn’t be starting against the Greeks after picking up a knock with club Bayern Munich.
Carsley even hinted that there may be a different look to how his team sets up as a result.
He said: “Along with a few of the players who can play at No.9, we’ve got plenty of options in that position.
“Harry’s been the outstanding player for so long for us now, but I feel like we’ve definitely got a Plan B.”
Carsely isn’t short of options if he did want to play a conventional striker, having called both Ollie Watkins and Dominic Solanke up the squad.
However, Bellingham could be a viable option with the 21-year-old occasionally playing in a more advanced role for Real Madrid last season.
While the former Birmingham City star has certainly proved he has an eye for goal, netting 23 times for Madrid last term.
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The absence of Kane won’t just leave a gap up top, but also means Carsley has to find a new man to wear the captain’s armband this evening.
The former England U21 boss has decided that role will be filled by John Stones.
On being given the honour of captaining his nation at Wembley, Stones said: “It’s everything I dreamed of as a kid. It’s a special moment and I cannot thank Lee enough.
“It was a great conversation but I didn’t know what to say. I was a bit speechless.”
Fans will be also eagerly watching on across both tonight’s clash against Greece and Sunday’s face-off with Finland to see if Carsley can find a way to play Bellingham, Phil Foden and Cole Palmer in the same squad.
Carsley is expected to start Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice and Anthony Gordon from the off under the arch this evening.
While Chelsea defender Levi Colwill is reportedly in line to partner John Stones at centre-back.
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Ranger’s promising career was almost over before it had even started.
He signed for Crystal Palace at the age of 10 but was released two years later for bad behaviour at school.
Aged 15, he was sentenced to 11 weeks in a young offenders’ institute for his part in an armed robbery in north London.
“We weren’t going around shooting or stabbing people,” he says. “We wanted to get some quick money so we said ‘let’s just take phones off people’.
“One of our entourage had a knife but I don’t know why because he wasn’t using it. We were acting like idiots.”
There is regret for the hurt he caused.
“Armed robbery is terrible. I wasn’t wanting to hurt them,” adds Ranger. “I was just thinking about getting the goods and running off.
“Now I’m older I do think I must have caused people trauma. At times I was a lunatic. I don’t know what else to call it.”
Ranger was a highly-promising £110-a-week player at Southampton’s academy when he was sentenced but the club supported him following his release and moved him into a flat with his mum, Karen, so she could keep an eye on him.
“My mum has had to come to meetings at every club I have been at to discuss my behaviour,” he says. “It’s been like that since my schooldays.”
Ranger was eventually kicked out of Southampton when he stole boots, training kit and even a staff member’s box of chocolates.
Where was his dad when all this was happening?
“He was around but I lived with my mum. Dad was in my life but what is he going to do? Punch me in the face? He could only speak to me.
“I’m my own man and he used to try to talk sense into me but I just didn’t listen.”
Ranger joined Swindon Town on trial before Newcastle came calling with a two-year contract and a £20,000 signing-on fee.
The 17-year-old headed to the north east hoping to put his troubled past behind him and make a name for himself playing alongside the likes of Fabricio Coloccini, Andy Carroll and Alan Smith.
“I went from nothing to something,” he says.
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