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Former England and Liverpool goalkeeper David James spoke about how he took his bankruptcy, and also dwelled on the problem with alcohol.
The 51-year-old ex-player made around £20m in his playing career, earning around £50,000 a week during his time at Portsmouth, but was declared bankrupt in May 2014. In November of that year, he auctioned off some of his most prized possessions, including over 100 T-shirts.
There is a well-known old saying that money cannot buy happiness. But the reality is that if you don’t have any of that, then it’s hard… When you see a beautiful watch on someone, you think: “The next time I buy a watch, I’ll buy a better one.”
Once I was sitting in the dressing room at Portsmouth and one of the guys walked by with a pair of jeans that probably cost £400. I reasoned like this: we all go out and buy our best clothes, wake up in the morning, get dressed, go to work in our best clothes, put on our training kit, work out, come back, get dressed, go home. So these best clothes were literally just for walking from home to workout and back. I thought, “Who am I competing with here?” So I went in a completely different way.
Then came bankruptcy. Even though I could spend money, I always helped other people. When you don’t have money, you can’t help other people. And it was more problematic than I couldn’t get something.
I wasn’t a drunk at Watford. I went to Liverpool and my first interaction with the players was ‘Let’s have a drink’ and I thought ‘I have to do this’ to get closer to the guys. Like my smoking, I just kept doing it, — quotes the words of James The Mirror.
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Pisa and Juventus met in the Italian Serie A match. The match ended with the score 0:2.
They scored for the guests Calabrians (73′, own goal), Yildiz (90+2′).
According to the results of the match, Pisa has 11 points, the guests 32 points.
In the next match Pisa will play on January 3, 2026, the opponent will be Genoa. Juventus will play their next match on 3 January 2026 (the opponent is Lecce).
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The scorer of the brace against Chelsea is an Aston Villa player. Ollie Watkins appointed head coach of the team Unai Emery tactical genius. Watkins’ comment is quoted by the BBC in reference to Sky Sports.
The meeting of the 18th round of the English championship between Aston Villa and Chelsea from London ended with a strong victory for the Birmingham team with a score of 2:1.
“He changed tactics because Chelsea played man-marking, but he had an extra central defender when we played long balls. When I came on in the second half, he put Jadon Sancho and Morgan Rodgers on the wing and put Youri Tielemans in the No. 10 position, so we had an extra player. He’s a tactical genius,” Watkins said.
“Amazing victory. For me personally, to go on the pitch and score two goals is a fantastic feeling, but to continue that streak and come here to such a difficult place and beat Chelsea is just incredible,” he added.
Aston Villa, under the leadership of former Spartak Moscow coach Emery, won 11 in a row. The team won 8 matches in the English championship and 3 in the Europa League.
In the English championship standings Aston Villa is in 3rd place with 39 points. In the next round, the Birmingham team will play away against Arsenal, leaders of the Premier League (42 points).
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The English football club Aston Villa won 11 consecutive victories for the first time since 1914 and repeated the club record for this indicator.
On Saturday, in the away match of the 18th round of the English championship, the Birmingham team beat London’s Chelsea (2:1).
The last time Aston Villa won 11 matches in a row was in 1914. This happened previously in 1897.
Aston Villa under the leadership of former Spartak Moscow coach Unai Emery he achieved 8 victories in the English championship and 3 in the Europa League.
In the English championship standings Aston Villa is in 3rd place with 39 points. In the next round, the Birmingham team will play away against Arsenal, leaders of the Premier League (42 points).
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