The pictures of Arsenal’s Jack
Wilshere tearing it up in Las Vegas after England’s latest tournament
humiliation has been making rounds online for the negative reasons. The England
player has been in Las Vegas partying with friends before he returns to Arsenal
for pre-season training.
In other pictures, Wilshere is holding a cigarette and a
cigar in the pool, puffing away without a care in the world. His career is
threatening to go up in smoke. England’s team is falling apart at the seams, underscored
by their lamentable performances at this World Cup.
The FA continues to maintain that this is all part of a
special plan, that this group of players are on the verge of something special.
No, they are not. They are young men, many of whom are ill-disciplined and
ill-advised, no better illustrated than by the latest round of party pictures.
If we are to believe these England players want success at
World Cups or European Championships as much as they tell us, then they have to
change their refueling habits.
It was only a year ago that England’s captain Steven Gerrard claimed Wilshere was a
‘world-class talent’ and even went on to say that the Arsenal midfielder could
succeed him as skipper. With a ball at his feet, no-one doubts that Wilshere is
a gifted individual, but boozing it up in bars and smoking like a trooper is no
way to fulfil that talent.
Last October, Wilshere, who earns around £50,000 a week,
assured Arsene Wenger, his manager at Arsenal, that it was a ‘one off’ when he was pictured smoking
on a night out in London.
‘I made a mistake.
Players make mistakes. I’m not a smoker,’ he told Arsenal’s official
website. ‘I spoke to the boss and he
asked me what happened. I explained it to him and we sorted it out. He put me
in the team and hopefully I repaid him.’
Wilshere needs to straighten himself out if he is to go on
to have a first-class playing career. He is 22 now. When Arsenal play their
opening fixture against Crystal Palace
in the Barclays Premier League on August 16, Wilshere will be fighting for his
place and it is getting congested in there.
Mesut Ozil, a World Cup winner now, new signing Alexis
Sanchez, Aaron Ramsey, Mikel Arteta, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
are all battling it out. Wilshere has a big
season ahead and this gem of a player is no longer guaranteed a start in
a mediocre England squad.
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