Some introduction.
Moving to a Premier League team can be an overwhelming experience for a young footballer. For some, they go from living with their parents to competing at an elite level in a matter of weeks.
It’s undoubtedly a hugely exciting – and daunting – time in a budding footballer’s life. And it seems as though former Tottenham youngster Dorian Dervite got a taste of the wild Premier League lifestyle through Irish legend Robbie Keane.
“After two or three drinks, he started coming towards me and said to me ‘I will show you how to do a real slide-tackle in England,'” Dervite said on French television via Get Football News France.
“I held onto his glass and then he started to sprint and finished by tackling two women who were at the bar.”
No flies on Keano https://t.co/ttHl9xIc44
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) May 12, 2018
Dervite spent five years at White Hart Lane but failed to make a senior appearance. Signed from the Lille academy, Dervite eventually left Spurs for Villarreal B before returning to England with Charlton in 2012. He’s currently with Bolton.
While the young Frenchman failed to make the grade at Spurs, Keane’s eccentric nightlife antics didn’t stop the Irish striker from becoming a club legend, scoring 121 goals over two spells in North London.
