Just found this on Twitter:

@AdamSadie: Just sat down @socialhouselv with Ash Young, Joe Hart, @JoleonLescott @dexblackstock23 for a nice bit of dinner #decent

How they can hang out with that diving cheating prick is beyond me.

Hmmmmmmmmm........England Teammates.

There's your answer.

They simply do not see things from the same perspective as us mate.

They probably even laugh about some of his antics.

Aslong as they do not get his cynicaldivingitis i'm relaxed.

Just shows the reality of football and how the "game" is totally different for them than the "sport" we as fans encounter.

We like to perceive this Us vs. Them scenario when in reality many players will know and socialise regularly with their supposed rivals.

Sky like to market the football product we buy into with intense rivalries, fans coming out with comments such as "death before I change my club"

Yet owners, managers, players would drop their clubs just like you'd drop your employer if a better job was offered to you.

Reminds me of WWE, where the wrestlers fight each other and show hatred in the ring, yet the next day they're best mates smiling and joking with each other at some publicity shoot.

and to further illustrate that point, I'm sure some of you saw the pictures of Joe giving piggy backs to Rooney in the sea last summer.

And didn't Hart and Barry go to Wing's for Rooney's birthday on the night of the 1-6?

Not really different to fans at all. The vast majority of fans on this forum, myself included, will count United fans amongst our friends, even though for 90 mins they will shout abuse at a rival club and fans. Football is just one aspect of life and it would be childish not to have friends of another club just because they represent/support another football team. Particularly when those people, even though they support a rival club, will share a lot of similarities with yourself.

Not really different to fans at all. The vast majority of fans on this forum, myself included, will count United fans amongst our friends, even though for 90 mins they will shout abuse at a rival club and fans. Football is just one aspect of life and it would be childish not to have friends of another club just because they represent/support another football team. Particularly when those people, even though they support a rival club, will share a lot of similarities with yourself.[/quote]

This ^^^^

Mike Summerbee was best mates with George Best when they were players, didn't stop them both being excellent players. Don't really care who the players hang out with, doesn't effect us.

Totally bizarre how some fans seem to think players are like them.

Hart and Lescott are mature fellas, not idiotic one-eyed gasbags

And the season before Hart went out for dinner with Rooney and Coleen after Rooney had scored the goal against him