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Also, the timing is of interest. Have some of the players taken a punt on Southgate not getting the job and thought they could take the piss with no consequence as there's a new guy coming in?

Wild punt but I very much doubt they do. These guys and girls performance levels are constantly monitored, in track cycling especially the competitors are aware that the difference between success and failure is 1%. I know I'm coming across as pious and hypocritical. I doubt I'd be able to do...

A game in which they conceded two late goals.

Yeah, you're right "This generation is the most professional generation of footballers we have ever had - not only in England. All the legends you admire, they drank like devils and smoked like crazy and were still good players. Nobody does that any more." So by that rationale, anyone that...

Klopp seems to think its no problem - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3945344/Jurgen-Klopp-defends-Wayne-Rooney-Liverpool-boss-claims-legends-drank-like-devils-smoked-like-crazy-good-players.html I wonder if he'd feel the same if it were one of his own players though.

Or to put it another way, do you ever see current World Number 1 Tennis player Andy Murray with a fag or a pint in his hand? Or the British track cycling team? Especially in competition time.

The British disease. Why does team bonding or letting our hair down HAVE to be with alcohol? It's up to Wayne Rooney how seriously he takes his career, he's certainly not harming anyone else but himself here and doesn't deserve to be singled out. For me he's a Flintoff, all the natural talent...

1996. The same year that Arsene Wenger came to this country and started to show the Premier League what being a professional actually meant. It probably doesn't affect things THAT much. But at the very top end of professional football, the margins between winner and loser are minute.

Personally I couldn't care what they get up to in their free time, as long as its legal. However, in the modern game, there is no longer any doubt drinking affects performance on the pitch. The best players in the world are model professionals. Consider this - at 18, Rooney was a better player...