Young English players should follow the example of Cristiano Ronaldo off the pitch, according to former Tottenham and QPR manager Harry Redknapp.
Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish was recently pictured unconscious in the street in Tenerife while on holiday and will meet with the club when he returns.
Grealish has yet to decide if his international future lies with England, and could yet choose to represent Ireland, but Redknapp had stern words for the next generation of football talent.
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"Why do they have to go out and act like idiots, get drunk, falling over? They're professional footballers," he told The Independent. "Jack Grealish, he's had an excellent year, an excellent second half of the season, plays in the Cup final and then goes and does that.
"Not that long ago I was in the same hotel in Sardinia as Cristiano Ronaldo for 10 days, with my wife and family. I saw him every day. You can see he looks after himself. Has his dinner, possibly has a glass of wine, but he's not going out every night.
"Why do these English players have to go and get silly drunk, and lay in the street and fall over? It's alright for his mate who's doing it, who's cleaning windows, if that's the way he wants to live.
"But footballers, the amount of money they get, they get that money to be dedicated to their profession, to make sure that they set a good example to young kids who want to be footballers. I've got no time for players acting stupid and getting drunk, I can't have it."