Watford captain Troy Deeney has lifted the lid on his troubled past, including his struggles with alcohol and three month prison stint for affray.
Deeney has managed to put all that behind him to star in the Premier League with the Hornets but, in an interview with the Sun, he has revealed it is an ongoing battle. "The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it", he said. "I genuinely used to love a drink.
I lived for the weekends and if that ended up in a scrap, so be it. "That was the environment I grew up in. It was normal for me to act that way because everyone did it.
Now I look back and think, 'What an idiot' — but I’d never change my past because it genuinely made me who I am today. "I am still
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