{"id":294744,"date":"2023-10-23T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=294744"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:25:04","slug":"micah-richards-says-he-had-ten-drinks-the-night-before-a-man-city-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/micah-richards-says-he-had-ten-drinks-the-night-before-a-man-city-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Richards says he had TEN drinks the night before a Man City game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Micah Richards reveals how he downed TEN drinks from a minibar the night before a Man City game &#8211; and tried to talk his way out of playing with Manuel Pellegrini after admitting boozing to the doctor<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Micah Richards has admitted to downing 10 drinks the night before a game<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He then tried to talk his way out of playing in the game under Manuel Pellegrini<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Micah Richards has admitted to downing 10 drinks the night before a game during his time at Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Richards went through City&#8217;s academy before breaking into the first team as he won the Premier League and FA Cup with the club.<\/p>\n<p>But he encountered a number of injury setbacks in the latter stages of his time at City, forcing him to regularly miss matches.<\/p>\n<p>He has now opened up on his return from one lay-off where he was not expecting to play the next day and decided to make the most of the alcohol on offer at the team&#8217;s hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d just got back in the squad with (Manuel) Pellegrini and you pretty much know if you&#8217;re going to be left out,&#8217; Richards explained to Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer on <span>The Rest is Football<\/span> podcast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/11\/76887141-12661637-image-m-16_1698056578926.jpg\" height=\"623\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Micah Richards has revealed he downed 10 drinks the night before a Man City game<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/11\/76887145-12661637-image-a-17_1698056613459.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Richards explained he was just returning from injury and did not expect to play the next day<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/11\/76887135-12661637-image-m-19_1698056643077.jpg\" height=\"549\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>However, a late injury meant he was at risk of playing under Manuel Pellegrini while nursing a hangover<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re sort of travelling if anyone gets injured. So I remember travelling somewhere, can&#8217;t remember where we were travelling to. I know I&#8217;m not playing, just come back from injury, just got back into it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So we get back to the hotel, and normally they take out all your alcohol of the fridge. Because I was probably a late shout for the squad, I&#8217;ve got all the alcohol in my fridge. So I&#8217;m thinking &#8220;I&#8217;ve just come back from injury, I&#8217;m not going to be playing, I&#8217;ll have one&#8221;. One turns to two, two turns to three, before you know it I&#8217;m 10 drinks down!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After making the most of the minibar, Richards expected to get away with it as he figured he was unlikely to feature the following day.<\/p>\n<p>However, a phone call on the morning of the match changed all that, and he was suddenly left panicking about potentially having to play while nursing a hangover, leading to him revealing to the club doctor about his late-night drinking the previous evening.<\/p>\n<p>Richards continued: &#8216;I get a call in the morning, someone&#8217;s injured. I&#8217;ve never been so nervous in my life!<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So, and people don&#8217;t really know this, you have a relationship with the doctor, the physios and then a different relationship with the manager. So, the doctor and physio always try to protect you if they can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The manager has a conversation &#8220;are you playing or not playing?&#8221; So I was just like to the manager &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready boss, my hamstring&#8217;s not right&#8221; or this, that and the other, but really I&#8217;ve told the doc and the physio &#8220;I&#8217;ve been steaming last night, you&#8217;re going to have to make up an excuse, I can&#8217;t be in the squad, I just can&#8217;t do it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And luckily the other sub went onto the bench and ended up going on and I didn&#8217;t have to appear, but that&#8217;s another true story.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Richards&#8217; narrow escape drew howls of laughter from Lineker and Shearer, with the duo left astonished by the story.<\/p>\n<p>Shearer then asked: &#8216;How on earth did we get onto this by the way? We&#8217;re reviewing the Premier League weekend!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Lineker responded: &#8216;That&#8217;s alright, this is a podcast, we do what we want!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/11\/76887217-12661637-image-a-20_1698056703131.jpg\" height=\"410\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Richards ended up not playing in the game for Pellegrini after revealing to the club doctor that he had been drinking the previous night<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/11\/76887139-12661637-image-a-21_1698056745433.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pellegrini sent Richards out on loan to Fiorentina after just one season of working with him<\/p>\n<p>It is not Richards&#8217; only drinking story from his City days, as he previously revealed in 2021 that he spent $150,000 on one night out in Los Angeles when his wages\u00a0 rocketed to \u00a350,000-a-week.<\/p>\n<p>Shearer was also on hand to hear that story, and cheekily responded: &#8216;That must have been one hell of a f****** hangover!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Richards went on to be loaned out by City to Serie A side Fiorentina in 2014 after playing under Pellegrini for just one season.<\/p>\n<p>He left City permanently the following summer to join Aston Villa on a free transfer, playing out the final four years of his career at the Midlands club before hanging up his boots in 2019 to move into punditry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12661637\/Micah-Richards-reveals-downed-TEN-drinks-minibar-night-Man-City-game-tried-talk-way-playing-Manuel-Pellegrini-admitting-boozing-doctor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micah Richards reveals how he downed TEN drinks from a minibar the night before a Man City game &#8211; 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