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It's ok to do it drunk then??
Where did I say that?
It's ok to do it drunk then??
You don't know he pro game.
Not your fault.
What a twat
Postman Pat? Worth fucking your career for
#Bantz
Mynameisnicolaberti is probably close to the truth. His antics in his life, not just on within the game suggest a condition such as ADHD or something with similar traits. Does anyone remember Gascoigne in his prime?
Most of these comments are way over the top. If Bentley had produced on the pitch no one would have given a stuff. Gazza anyone?
Wow, this thread is really something. I have never seen people behave with such vemon towards someone they know based on a shred of information given to them in an autobiography and via rumour. It's the witchunt generation.
I read these quotes yesterday myself, but via a different article. It came bundled with an interview Bentley did a few weeks ago with BT Sports. It can be found on youtube.
In the video Bentley talks about how he has fallen out of love with football. He's been away from the game about 6 months and doesn't miss it at all. I got the impression from what he was saying that his gradual decline could well be down to the fact that as a boy he played the game for fun and assumed that being a professional footballer was the same. As he got higher in the game and it also became a job more and more the fun element wore off somewhat and he lost interest. He doesn't come across as a particularly intelligent man and I wouldn't mind betting that, based on what he says, the lad act was simply evidence of someone who didn't much want to accept having to be an adult. I don't condone that approach to one's career, but I can nonetheless understand why the descent may have happened.
Also, there were rumours over the years of gambing and booze problems. Again, if you watch the video his behaviour is quite telling. He never looks at the camera and rarely looks the interviewer in the eye. He is withdrawn, round shoulders and broken in his responses. That could suggest any number of things. Depression, lack of confidence, anxiety, or maybe even continuing substance abuse problems. Whatever is the problem there is clearly something going on there that we don't know about.
So I think that before people get the knives out they might want to step back and entertain the notion that maybe with Bentley it wasn't just a case of someone who was unprofessional and didn't give a shit, that there were other factors involved - ones that perhaps were bubbling under the surface for years and not fully understood by great intellects like Jimmy Bullard.