The Curious Case of Dele Alli | Emotional Overlap interview (p 19)

KentBlue said:
I have never liked the man, so I admit that I am biased. However, to me he seems to have too aggressive a temperament to last long at anything. He's always looked to me like the sort of bloke you see in a pub and your sixth-sense tells you to steer clear because he has this aura of scarcely suppressed violence about him. The type who can turn at the drop of a hat.

If he does have mental issues, well so do we all in one way or another: some small some large, some debilitating enough to cause us issues that require treatment and/or medication.
Nor is he is alone in experiencing a troubled childhood, so have billions of others.
I can appreciate the man has his problems, and I don't for one second wish to denigrate the suffering he appears to have endured, but he's obviously an immensely wealthy young man, probably never need to work again, has access to the top psycho-analysts from Harley Street or whatever, and I would assume he lives a life of luxury in comparison to the average working-class man.

Regardless of where he goes from here, he is doomed to failure if he cannot control his anger. Violent outbursts nearly always end up creating further violence and I just get the overall impression that he is one volatile young man.

Hope I'm proved wrong.
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I think you may be very much right! Alli should be playing for the Dippers and then all his troubles would be someone else's fault, which I think is the way he has travelled.
 
Keeper! said:
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Fell of a cliff, no finer example, ego, money, lazy, gambling, women, drugs , you take your choice.

To get to the top is hard, to stay at the top is incredibly difficult even for the most talented.
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Ego, lazy, drugs ?? Do back that up
 
Was it Delli Alli who did that daft hand gesture celebration thing that “the kids” tried to copy? Or was that Lingard?

The two of those muppets are pretty much the same person in my mind. Full of “potential” when they’re both about 30.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Was it Delli Alli who did that daft hand gesture celebration thing that “the kids” tried to copy? Or was that Lingard?

The two of those muppets are pretty much the same person in my mind. Full of “potential” when they’re both about 30.
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Lingard and Ali, two peas of the same pod!
 
LongsightM13 said:
Still winning titles and medals in his 30s tbf
Glad to see how he bounced back from bad times
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Always loved Joe Hart. Way before I started watching City but I was excited by him for England. By rights if he'd continues at the top he would have probably had the most England caps ever by now.

Glad he's doing well
 
An incredible interview, he’s clearly gone through a lot during his childhood which many of us couldn’t even begin to imagine. He mentions he’s found the love for the game again, so if that’s what he wants, I truly hope he rekindles his career.

As for the gutter press who were threatening to expose it all, hope they fucking rot.
 
Neville made a decent point there, he basically had 4 years of any kind of stability in his life and then suddenly he's playing first team football.

It becomes pretty understandable why his career path and life since then has been the way it has.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Neville made a decent point there, he basically had 4 years of any kind of stability in his life and then suddenly he's playing first team football.

It becomes pretty understandable why his career path and life since then has been the way it has.
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The reality is although he has struggled recently and his career has gone off the rails,he did amazingly well in the first place......to drag himself from the gutter,surrounded by cunts,and get himself to a place where he was playing wonderful professional football......was/is an incredible achievment.

Hopefully the kid gets himself sorted and back in the game,he has plenty to give on and off the pitch.
 
Blue Smarties said:
An incredible interview, he’s clearly gone through a lot during his childhood which many of us couldn’t even begin to imagine. He mentions he’s found the love for the game again, so if that’s what he wants, I truly hope he rekindles his career.

As for the gutter press who were threatening to expose it all, hope they fucking rot.
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I think he's in good hands with Sean Dyche. Not a fan of his tactics, but his players all seem to think he's a really solid person and if he really wants his career back on track, he'll end up fit and working incredbly hard and his talent should shine through.

I wonder what Pep makes of it all, IIRC his daughter was dating Dele Alli for a while.
 
Well done, Dele Alli. Lovely lad and a world class footballer. It was apparent for years that there was an addiction issue going on, but everyone laughed at the poor lad and the gutter press got their knives out.

That takes so much courage to reach out for the appropriate help, and to then go public over it whilst still young and playing professional football. These issues are endemic in the sport, and hopefully others who have been through childhood trauma and wider issues can take strength from this, in order to take the next step in their lives. I hope he proves all the doubters wrong and has a great season at Everton and gets back in the England setup. Top player, top human.
 
FantasyIreland said:
The reality is although he has struggled recently and his career has gone off the rails,he did amazingly well in the first place......to drag himself from the gutter,surrounded by cunts,and get himself to a place where he was playing wonderful professional football......was/is an incredible achievment.

Hopefully the kid gets himself sorted and back in the game,he has plenty to give on and off the pitch.
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Absolutely but it's probably hard to sustain it when you've had a childhood like that

It's not do dissimilar to Mike Tyson in some ways, he come from a very difficult background with a drug addict and prostitute mother, ended up in crime, then a young offenders prison and end up living with Cus D'Amato who gave him stability for a few years and trained him. He was on top for a few years once he was pro but then ended up in jail and never really the same after that.

Point is that with that kind of childhood, even if people manage to get to the top, it's often going to be a real struggle maintaining it in a stable manner when the first 12 or 13 years of life is damaging and chaotic, then you have a few years of stability and then you're in the spotlight.
 
Well done to Dele Alli for coming out and speaking. Takes a lot of fucking bottle and courage to lay all your cards vulnerably on the table for the world to see.

Footballers are human, no amount of money and talent can change that.

Hope he can get back to what he was - a fabulous, piercing footballer.

On another related note, he basically says as the start that he’s coming out and talking because tabloids have been contacting his team saying they know where he’s been (rehab). Vermin and rings true of a certain other case this week too.
 
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