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"I never had hangovers back then. I could go training and no one knew I'd been out.
"But if I do it now I'm a disgrace. I look s*** and play s***. I'd probably get injured."
He refers to his drink-drive conviction when he was 18:
"One of the hardest things was accepting responsibility for my actions, especially as children might look up to me. Now I think before I do things."