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Anyone seen this in the news of the world, what a joke.

Hes on a session between club and international duty and quite rightly so.Why not?

Cant believe a journalist would even bother.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/10 ... squad.html

Green & Blue wrote:Anyone seen this in the news of the world, what a joke.

Hes on a session between club and international duty and quite rightly so.Why not?

Cant believe a journalist would even bother.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/10 ... squad.html

Are you for real? It's a journalist and photographers dream to get something like this.
And I would expect it will not go down at all well with his 2 managers.

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:

Green & Blue wrote:Anyone seen this in the news of the world, what a joke.

Hes on a session between club and international duty and quite rightly so.Why not?

Cant believe a journalist would even bother.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/10 ... squad.html

Are you for real? It's a journalist and photographers dream to get something like this.
And I would expect it will not go down at all well with his 2 managers.

Yes i am for real.
It was 36 hours before joining the england squad he was off duty as such.
Footballers do have to attend stag partys like the rest of us.


"The scenes will anger many fans after England's humiliating exit from the World Cup".

Why would they anger England fans considering he did not get a minutes game time at the world cup, shocking sensationalist journalisim.

Green & Blue wrote:Anyone seen this in the news of the world, what a joke.

Hes on a session between club and international duty and quite rightly so.Why not?

Cant believe a journalist would even bother.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/10 ... squad.html

It wasn't a journalist, it was the NOTW

I an totally outraged and disgusted. Ruining a good song like that.

Im not arsed what he does 10 days before a city game, he can even go out the night before an England game if he wants, as long as he performs for city I don't care. He's a young lad he needs a social life.

Good lad, I wonder where he ended up?

mcfctm wrote:Im not arsed what he does 10 days before a city game, he can even go out the night before an England game if he wants, as long as he performs for city I don't care. He's a young lad he needs a social life.

Agree. I wouldn't bother even if he was drunk while he's between the sticks as long as he keeps clean sheets.

Green & Blue wrote:

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:

Green & Blue wrote:Anyone seen this in the news of the world, what a joke.

Hes on a session between club and international duty and quite rightly so.Why not?

Cant believe a journalist would even bother.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/10 ... squad.html

Are you for real? It's a journalist and photographers dream to get something like this.
And I would expect it will not go down at all well with his 2 managers.

Yes i am for real.
It was 36 hours before joining the england squad he was off duty as such.
Footballers do have to attend stag partys like the rest of us.


"The scenes will anger many fans after England's humiliating exit from the World Cup".

Why would they anger England fans considering he did not get a minutes game time at the world cup, shocking sensationalist journalisim.

I am not referring to England fans or City fans but the simple fact that photographers and journalists love to get pictures and stories like this.Whether it is 2 days or 10 days before a match is irrelevant to them as they still see it as a story of a professional footballer not looking after himself and asking for trouble. It might be shocking sensationalist journalism but it's the world we live in like it or not.It sadly helps sell papers and you seem to be one that buys them and then gets upset at what is regularly printed in them!

The sad thing about this article is that the person it's assigned to, douglas wight, didn't even attempt to ask joe if he had actally been on a bender and if he had a comment about it!

Who knows if joe had actually drunk too much to have been on a bender ?

An eye witness (probably the one that asked him to hold the bottle for him, whilst he took photos) caught him on his natel camera most probably.

Those pictures could in fact be easily and innocently explained away.

It's a sign of the times.

Hope you had a good time joe, all the rest of the squad were probably on benders in abu dhabi this week in your absence..

Was discussing Balotelli's 'interesting' lifestyle last night and the same goes for Hart and the rest of them - as long as they aren't slagging the club off, I don't care what they do, providing it doesn't affect them on the pitch.

Under the Joe Royle days in the premier league, I once bumped into a number of the City squad on a night out on Deansgate. They were in a much worse state than me and I felt like death the following morning. It had been mid-week, something like a Wednesday night. On the Saturday, our relegation battle continued at home to Everton. Considering how ill I'd felt, I took the moral high ground and decided they shouldn't have been doing it, so went to the match in a foul mood, assuming another defeat. Can't remember the exact score, but I think we won 5-0. The moral - it's what you do on the pitch that counts. Yes, drunken nights and poor training would eventually catch up, but as a one off, I can't see it matters.

Shay Given will see this as a possible lifeline. I don't know if Joe Hart was on a bender but if he was, it won't go down well with Capello or Mancini & the parallell with Joe Royle's team is an interesting one, as several of those players pretty much ruined their careers by doing exactly the same thing, including Nicky Weaver.

Blue Since 76 wrote:Was discussing Balotelli's 'interesting' lifestyle last night and the same goes for Hart and the rest of them - as long as they aren't slagging the club off, I don't care what they do, providing it doesn't affect them on the pitch.

Under the Joe Royle days in the premier league, I once bumped into a number of the City squad on a night out on Deansgate. They were in a much worse state than me and I felt like death the following morning. It had been mid-week, something like a Wednesday night. On the Saturday, our relegation battle continued at home to Everton. Considering how ill I'd felt, I took the moral high ground and decided they shouldn't have been doing it, so went to the match in a foul mood, assuming another defeat. Can't remember the exact score, but I think we won 5-0. The moral - it's what you do on the pitch that counts. Yes, drunken nights and poor training would eventually catch up, but as a one off, I can't see it matters.

Every Tuesday night in "Loaf" without fail. I dj`d in there. Kennedy was a nuisance. They were always blasted.

Though I have no real opinion on this it's interesting to see people recently slating AJ for allegedly doing the same yet Joe should be "enjoying himself".

No excuse for a professional athlete to drink alcohol. None.

what a lightweight

Has nobody noticed that in the "bender till 3am" pictures, there is daylight shining through the windows?

Footballer has a drink a week before his next game. SHOCKER!

"Just 36 Hours before Joe Hart joins the England camp......."

Fuck me, they're havin' a laugh, aren't they? 36 hours before he joins up with the squad. How many days before a game?

Complete, non-story. Unless he falls off the bar and breaks his hands of course.

When we have a team of players who take their sport as seriously as the Steve Redgraves, Martin Johnsons or Paula Radcliffes of this world we will have a team who are worth the money they are paid

These guys are paid millions every year to play for city and can give up everything as far as I'm concerned until the day they hang up their boots and live the life of privilege they have earned

Hart and AJ should heed Mancini and focus on nothing apart from the next game until they have earned their wages, the likes of Tevez, Ade and countless other poor ikkle millionaires should grow a pair