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Kyle Walker has admitted that his Manchester City and England team-mate John Stones has a love for boozing.
Walker and Stones have been club and country team-mates for seven years and they have enjoyed their fare share of alcohol-fuelled trophy celebrations. And it was none more so last season when City won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League within a three-week period.
The treble-winners enjoyed quite the blast following their historic achievement last June, with Jack Grealish among those getting involved in the drunken celebrations. However, it was former Everton centre-back Stones who was mentioned by Walker as he opened up on a boozy trip to Abu Dhabi.
Speaking on the FIVE podcast with Rio Ferdinand, Walker said: "John loves it [a party]. But he doesn’t drink all season" before adding that Stones has no use for mixers, instead preferring to drink straight from the bottle.
"We went to Abu Dhabi, he had a little go then. But when he goes, it's bottles. It's no mixers, it's just a bottle of tequila, a bottle of jaeger and he’ll just drink that straight. Just 'give me the bottle' and he drinks it."
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Walker then revealed how intense the drinking sessions get when City win a trophy. Since Walker arrived at the Etihad from Tottenham in 2017, Pep Guardiola's men have won 14 major trophies, averaging over two every season during his successful time at the club so far. "I absolutely love it," Walker added. "How high is the high when you're celebrating with the lads? We stretch [nights out] to probably three days."
After winning the Champions League last year, City endured a four-day spell of drinking and partying across Istanbul, Manchester and Ibiza in the wake of their treble success. During that period, Grealish became the face of the festivities and was regularly pictured with drinks throughout.
John Stones and Kyle Walker (Getty Images)Responding to whether criticism over the wild celebrations bothered him, Grealish told talkSPORT at the time: "Not really. I'd done something that comes around once in a lifetime. The last time it was done… I don't know when Man United did it, but it hasn't been done for ages.
"So why not celebrate like that? Everyone was with me. I wasn't on my own, going out with my friends. I was with the whole team. We enjoyed ourselves on the Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I had the best weekend of my life. I'd just won the Champions League and I was so emotional after it.
"I was probably on the biggest emotional high I've ever been on. The [England] manager didn't tell me, but I knew I wouldn't play on the Friday."
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