Training can be fun!
Feb 17, 2021 22:44:48 GMT
Post by stoatey on Feb 17, 2021 22:44:48 GMT
Earlier today on talksport Marc Bircham recounted the story of how a QPR training spate escalated and one player pulled a can of tear gas from his car!
There was a time he [Traore] absolutely lost his s*** with Shaun Derry,” Bircham said. “I was reffing and having a bit of banter.
“It was a small-sided game and someone should have squared it to Armand Traore, but they had a shot and missed.
“And he’s gone, ‘you’re a c***’ and what not. And the time’s ended and Shaun Derry’s gone to him, ‘don’t call someone a c***’ and Dez has hit him.
“I’ve never seen someone – it’s a bit like when Popeye has had his spinach – absolutely transform. I was holding on to him, it was like when my kid was three holding on to my arm.
“He’s lost his s*** saying, ‘I’ll kill you’, ‘I’ll do this’… We all go in and we’re trying to calm it down.”
He continued: “At the training ground there’s a tunnel and Armand Traore has come in with a can of tear gas and gone, ‘I’m going to kill him’, so I’ve had to drag him into the office with the player liaison officer.
“He kept saying, ‘I’m going to kill him, he can’t disrespect me like that’.
“I was like, ‘wow, Armand, what are you doing? You’ve not thought this through mate. It’s a covered area, so if you throw the tear gas in there you’re going to gas yourself mate. So one: you’ve got no gas mark, and two: where have you got that tear gas from?’
“‘My boot’, he replied. I was like to him, ‘what the f*** have you got with tear gas in the back of your boot, you’ve been playing too much Call of Duty’.
“But he said, ‘no no, I have it in case there is trouble, and there’s trouble now’.
“I went to him, ‘can’t we just go back to the old days where we’ve got baseball bats? You’ve got tear gas’.
“I went to Dezza, ‘I think you better get yourself home. I’ve seen his eyes… he’s serious. The best you’re going to get is tear gas.'”
There was a time he [Traore] absolutely lost his s*** with Shaun Derry,” Bircham said. “I was reffing and having a bit of banter.
“It was a small-sided game and someone should have squared it to Armand Traore, but they had a shot and missed.
“And he’s gone, ‘you’re a c***’ and what not. And the time’s ended and Shaun Derry’s gone to him, ‘don’t call someone a c***’ and Dez has hit him.
“I’ve never seen someone – it’s a bit like when Popeye has had his spinach – absolutely transform. I was holding on to him, it was like when my kid was three holding on to my arm.
“He’s lost his s*** saying, ‘I’ll kill you’, ‘I’ll do this’… We all go in and we’re trying to calm it down.”
He continued: “At the training ground there’s a tunnel and Armand Traore has come in with a can of tear gas and gone, ‘I’m going to kill him’, so I’ve had to drag him into the office with the player liaison officer.
“He kept saying, ‘I’m going to kill him, he can’t disrespect me like that’.
“I was like, ‘wow, Armand, what are you doing? You’ve not thought this through mate. It’s a covered area, so if you throw the tear gas in there you’re going to gas yourself mate. So one: you’ve got no gas mark, and two: where have you got that tear gas from?’
“‘My boot’, he replied. I was like to him, ‘what the f*** have you got with tear gas in the back of your boot, you’ve been playing too much Call of Duty’.
“But he said, ‘no no, I have it in case there is trouble, and there’s trouble now’.
“I went to him, ‘can’t we just go back to the old days where we’ve got baseball bats? You’ve got tear gas’.
“I went to Dezza, ‘I think you better get yourself home. I’ve seen his eyes… he’s serious. The best you’re going to get is tear gas.'”
