Jack Grealish speaks on his three-day bender celebrating his side’s recent success as he fires back at criticism over his boozy antics.
Just less than 24 hours after the Man City title parade, he arrived at St George’s Park on Tuesday evening, but admitted he was still feeling hungover at the time.
After not playing a part in the game against Malta, he came on for the Euro 2024 qualifier against North Macedonia and got the biggest cheer at Old Trafford, some even coming up with a chant over his drinking.
“I would never sit here and lie to you and say ‘Yeah, I don’t drink and I don’t party’ because I do, but then there’s so many people that will come here and say to you ‘I don’t do this, I don’t do that’ when they do,” he said, as per The Telegraph.
“I’m just truthful because when you see me doing anything, you’d be like: ‘oh, hold on. He said a few weeks ago in an interview that he didn’t do that.’ But listen, I just enjoy myself, I’m living my dream of playing for the best club in the world in my opinion, we’ve just won the Treble so I’m going to obviously have a break now with my family and my friends and then I’ll be raring to go again in four weeks.”
After winning the Champions League, he and his teammates headed to Ibiza for 12 hours, but the wave of emotions really hit him as soon as his eye set on his family inside the started just after the final whistle at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium.
“Behind closed doors I’m quite an emotional person, I’m so close with my family and stuff. As soon as we finished the game I had tears in my eyes, I was crying on the pitch,” he said. “When I see my family, my mum, my little sister. It was just emotional. Then you see my dad, my dad has taken me to every game since I was six years old.
“Even last year you sit there and think, not have I made the right decision, but ‘I’ve not had much game time, am I ever going to be a starter?’. I came back from the World Cup and I came into the team, I’m one of the main players and then we go and win the Treble. It was so emotional, man, but it was good emotion if that makes sense.
“For about two hours really I just couldn’t get over it. Even the Sunday, the Monday, what followed and spending it with family and friends, that group of players, that staff, it was the best weekend of my life.
“My emotions have been so high. When I was sitting in the camp on Thursday, it was the biggest high I’d been on in my whole life at the weekend. You come into the camp, you sit on your own in your room and think ‘will I ever feel that high again?’”
“I don’t know what you guys read and think sometimes. I have a great relationship with him [Gareth Southgate], honestly,” said Grealish as the topic changes to England duty. “I was a bit hungover but I weren’t drunk or anything. I came into camp with the other guys, we slept then woke up and trained Wednesday. We trained Thursday and, like I said, in the back of my mind, I knew I wasn’t going to play on the Friday.”
He continued, reflecting on his celebrations: “I knew what I was doing. I’m not like that usually but we’ve won the Treble and it’s something that will never happen again. So I went and enjoyed myself and I wasn’t the only one – I think a lot of the time you’ll see everyone recording me, I could show you all this stuff other people where they were the same.
“Listen, we all enjoyed ourselves, other people enjoy themselves where the cameras aren’t but that was just me enjoying myself, I’d had the most successful season of my life. I’ve just played out a 12-month season. I’ve been into a World Cup, I’ve won three trophies and then I’m going to be back training now in four weeks or so, why not enjoy myself?”
🦃 “The Turkey needs feeding!!”
Jack Grealish is definitely enjoying this #MCFC Treble parade 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/LlIQvmpuYj
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) June 12, 2023
Fans reacted as Jack Grealish speaks on his three-day bender as he fires back at criticism…
@TomMoores: Spot on son!!
@gregpage_5: Guys a legend 😂😂 4/365 days on the bevy won’t coz him any harm 😂😂
@Azul_76: Was happy when we signed him, never realised how much I’d end up loving him 😍
@james_robinson2: Grealish is becoming more and more likeable by the day.
@jamiewhittleton: Hes just likeable aint he. Love the honesty
@cbstar82: Spot on @JackGrealish 👏 enjoy your summer!
@TheDaveCalaz: He’s spot on too.
@potty_9: 95% people you see love this lad but if youre in the 5% sort of feel youre weird 🤷🏽♂️
@manchestersmsh: Do as you please Jack! You deserve it
@thegoat10: Couldn’t love him more. The shit he’s taken this week off melts and he comes out and fronts it up and says it like it is. Living every kids dream and then gets twatted for 48 hours, what a man
@KingMWJ_: Love him so much
@Fezkat777: Just won a treble . The players should have some time off to celebrate instead of playing in some Mickey Mouse competition or friendlies .
@Telv1s: You can’t not love this fella! Just a lad, whose good at football, living his best life!!
@AndyPearson68: Media training do this do that give the lad a break one of the best raw talents since Gazza 👊
@woodza66: Good on you @JackGrealish enjoy it. You’re a youngster. Just enjoy this short football career. Bloody Media will put you up on a pedestal and will be looking for the slightest thing to pull you down again. Be yourself 👏🏼👏🏼🏴🏴👌🏼👌🏼🍺🍺🍺
@Scotthawthorn15: I won’t knock him, real and happy, what you see is what you get with JG
@bifana_bifana: 12 months non-stop football at the elite level culminating in lifting the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League trophies and still there are sourpusses begrudging a young fella at the height of his physical powers a night and a half on the pop. Has to be a release from that
@mikeyf2002_: What a fucking boy @JackGrealish I love you so much 💙💙💙
@itsneus: We’re with you mate @JackGrealish 🤝🏼 had i been in your place god knows i wouldn’t have made it to the england camp 😂
@EJWilks4995: Dont get why he is getting hounded for going on a bender after he has achieved something that might never be done again???? Also, tbf I bet a lot these city players are extremely dedicated and in the end they might just want to let loose a bit before going again.
@CityJou: Just ask who ever criticise you celebrating if they have ever won the treble before
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