The Rondo - Player Misconceptions with Bradley Wright-Phillips

At the end of the night, I'm like, please, let me get this

Sean's like, you don't have to wear good, whatever. I forced myself into getting this bill. When it came, man, I don't want to say that whatever it was

the gulp, like, boom. So obviously being a professional footballer. Yeah, I know, it's tough

It is tough, right? From a guy with a nine to five, you know

we have a lot of misconceptions about footballers, you know? You know, whether you guys pick up tabs or at the club

or, you know what I'm saying, get your hair cut every day, you know 60 minutes before the game there's a bunch of different things that footballers do

yeah so we're gonna run through a couple of them i can't talk about the haircuts we love that shiny bald head we love that all right football's biggest misconceptions

footballers always pick up the tab at restaurants and nightclubs is that true

i think the footballers i was around it um i know i did one too many i wish i didn't

i know you had some nights yeah but i think for sure when i was bringing the guys out

whoever i'm going out with especially if they're younger than me i'm definitely picking on yo so let's say it's a night out with demand of you know i'm saying the tab getting hefty though yeah

you know i'm saying you're looking at the bill and it's somebody where i'm like yeah you're looking at you're looking at the bill and you're like like four figures is five figures like looking at it

like damn like that was the the bel-air was how much yeah so have you ever had a situation where

you look at a bill like nah fam like guys gotta give a little bit i know i've had situations where

i should have done that but i'm one of those people like an idiot i was too proud you know I mean, I remember one time I went to Vegas with my brother, Sean, and the Chelsea squad

I can't remember what year this was. And I remember for most of the trip, they were looking after me

They were doing, I was the young guy there. Whatever. I think I was at Southampton. So on Chelsea, who was there at the time

It would be my bro, Joe Cole, Ashley Cole, Wayne Bridge. That's a squad

That's a squad. So you guys are roaming Vegas together. I don't remember, bro

That's a bad squad. That's a bad squad. I told Sean, I'm like, you know, you guys have been paying everything

I feel like, you know what I mean? Like I'm in Vegas. Let me pay. Yeah. And then what happened

Did you get your bonus at that time? I was doing all right, bro. I was playing champs

You know what I mean? So I was all right. So whatever. So yeah, the end of the night, I'm like, please let me get this

She was like, you don't have to do a good whatever. I forced myself into getting this bill. When it came, man

I don't want to say that whatever it was, the gulp like. I looked at this receipt for so long

And that's when I learned to shut my mouth. Shut your mouth, buddy

You talk too much. And now you have to pay for it. Yo, it'd be so crazy, bro

Because I've had those experiences. You're out in Miami. You know what I saying Let say if I out for example if I with like Joshua Zerksy I like nah fam you know what I saying Let me give you like a little hundred dollars He like yo fam like Yo Just relax Cause what is that Like you know what I saying let say if I out for example if I with like Joshua Zerksy I like nah fam like you know what I saying let me give you like a little hundred dollars he like yo fam like chill because what is that like you know what I saying what is that but you know at least I

offering you know what I'm saying like you know obviously like I'm an offer you know what I'm

saying like I'm not like the type of dude hanging around at least I'm gonna give a little something

something you feel me but I get it though there comes a time where it's like there's levels to

this you feel me yeah to be fair me in like a Brooklyn dive bar and it's like there's more than

eight dollars i'm like jeez bro what's going on here all right next one footballers are always

into luxury goods and fashion i think the majority are especially when you're seeing on social media

now a lot of players have the high end stuff i don't know just being in changing rooms and being

around people it wasn't always that it wasn't always it's it's high level stuff but for most

of the the senior players and stuff it's not too flashy were you ever into that kind of stuff like

yeah some nice when i first broke through i was i wanted gucci i wanted all these things louis

the range rover that's how your range rover i had these things and then now if you see my very plane

always the older pair of trainers on i like to wear black those are nice but you go for it you

go for a stage when you spot you first start getting some money for yourself for sure you

got to get the gucci bag the lv the lv toiletry bag i've been there um do you remember what like

you spent your first paycheck on or like i know i know yeah go on what was like the first like

luxury item you bought like oh my god i got money i've got to buy that yeah watches i've bought cars

i'm just not i was never flashy i was always doing it for someone else i'm very like yeah i'm very

like you know i mean laid back about my clothes like i said it's all black hoodies tracksuits

from southeast london we wear like tracksuits yeah yeah very tracksuit yeah so roadman roadman

attire i'd say probably a range rover though when i got when i started yeah maybe a range rover they

say that in the uk that's the car that gets nicked the most bro you can't even get insurance for it

anymore like the range rover yeah they'd be robbing that let me ask you something they always say

like you know the footballers in the other generation you know they weren't on social media they had it like that if instagram and all that existed back then do you think those

footballers like roy keen and stuff would be on socials if it was like that's a great question

when you see roy keen's personality don't seem like you're ever ever had like but we say that

though but we see all the legends because the world's like he wants to be on tv but at the same

time but at the same time though roy keen's posting his clips on his gram yeah yeah yeah

You know what I'm saying? That's the way the world's moving. Yeah, but I'm saying, if that existed back then

of course, I feel like they would be posting too. It would be the norm. Yeah. So I guess so

I would love to see like Seth Fabregas throwing that pizza at like Sir Alex Ferguson since someone got it on video That would have been crazy Fab I love the old beef on social media nowadays Or when Fergie kicked the boot in Beckham head In Beckham head Someone had that on video bro

Guys, remember the days on Twitter when Wayne Rooney hadn't figured out how to tweet yet

Oh, yeah, yeah. Those were the days when it was unfiltered. Mr. Bean is funny. Why, what does he do

I miss those. He would just tweet just like random. He would tweet at Rio Ferdinand saying, hi, Rio

Do you want picking up from training? Yeah, training. on a tweet

he thinks it's like emails yeah he doesn't know it's so good next one

footballers happy when they get benched for rest no there's impossible I don't think

any footballer's happy happy to be rested that's my opinion so even if you weren't

feeling like 100% you got a bit of a knock or whatever you'd just play me play me

play me I remember being asked do you want to rest we're thinking about resting you this week

oh yeah sometimes you can do we're thinking about resting you this week with this game coming up

or whatnot nah But for me, no, because I was always thinking about my goal ratio

I'm thinking if I miss this game, I'm going to strike where we hit scores, but he's ahead of me

That is true. I feel like that also people don't take that in account to like how many games are playing now

Yeah. Players are playing way more games than what you were used to back in the day. Like 65 plus games a season

Do you think if you were playing as many games that players are playing now, you would have that still that initiative

Or you'd be like, damn, like I'm actually tired for real. It's hard to say. It's hard to say

I mean, you hear that from the old generation a lot, though. like when you watch pundits now i feel like a lot of them will say like i don't give like i just

want to play yeah you know it's easy to say that because you're not playing these many that's what i'm saying it's like well it's easy for you because you're not having to play full exactly

i think i would have to see a dip in my form to where i'm saying i i can't do okay i literally

can't even yeah because it's crazy to me because like the season where our nine won the ballon door

for barcelona he had he had 48 goal uh 48 goals and 52 games or something like that and i'm thinking

and i'm thinking in my head i'm like bro 52 games was probably the most he ever played in a season

in his whole career that was a lot for him you know injuries and all that and you have players

playing 65 plus season after season after season bro it's a lot bro it's a lot of games next one

footballers spend their first big wages on a big purchase it depends i i think it depends where

you're coming from what kind of background yeah i think if you if you're used to having a bit of

money i don't think that's going to impress you i think but i feel like for a lot of footballers

though they do come from families that might not be as well off so how did you ever monitor like

people who are like maybe looking at you like yo bwp just made it fam like i trying to hang around him for a little bit like how did you how did you manage those like situations and friendships I was very I got the same group of friends and obviously my family members

that doesn't change. But I was one of those very tight knit group. You know, I've got the four guys in my head that

you know, I was with from academy to even now. Really? You know what I mean? Yeah

So I didn't struggle with that. There's people that you're going to meet in nightclubs or bars

or when you're going on holiday that you might, you might talk to every now and again, but there's no one just leeching off me

Do you think nowadays, Like if you were a footballer nowadays, you'd be into like the fashion stuff like Juul Koundé and those guys like dressing up, going to training camp

No, no, no. You'd never be a training camp? You'd never be a training camp fashion, brother

No. Why? Fam, I would. Yeah, but that's because this is your generation, man. Yeah

My older guys were, if I came in something like that at training, I don't know if you guys are too young to remember like a Ben Thatcher or Ben Thatcher, David James

David James, yeah. Richard Dunn. These guys, if I walked into Joey Barton, if I walked into a locker room with these kind of clothes on, they would get burnt

And that's not even a light. With a light up. They will burn your clothes

But I find that funny because I feel like if Joey Barton and David James, if they played now, they'd be all over that

David James would be a little bit. Yeah, I think he would for sure. Because when he had the braids and that

you're telling me David James would be your gram. Yeah. Come on now. I'm deaf of. Deaf of

Football in my time, you just had to be humble. Yeah. Do your work. Shut up. Head down. Yeah

Especially when you're young. Do footballers actually hate their rival club? I did

Like, when I played for City, I used to even playing against ManUni Academy

me i hated them hated me to hate this team really yeah of course i'm an arsenal fan i hate tottenham

it's a real thing it's a real thing everybody's friends on the team

have you ever been in any locker rooms where it was like really toxic like to the point where it's

like yo like you don't you don't have no brothers on the team like you're coming into training Speaking of no one

Yeah I've been on teams Like that where Not to where I don't Speak to people I feel like I can get on

With most people You know what I mean But I've been in locker rooms It's not you faked it For an hour But I think

I've been in changing rooms Yeah where there's You know there's a group Of guys that don't really

Mess with them Don't really talk to each other They're not going to talk To each other On the pitch

But I don't know man When I was at When I got to Red Bull I remember playing with Thierry And Thierry was a big believer

In that you don't have to be friends But we just got to be On the same page When we get on the pitch and I think a lot of football clubs

are not everyone's best friends I think it helps if there's a good camaraderie in the group but it's impossible