Ben White sets record straight on infamous claim about him - 'I just want to forget!'

A Sky Sports interrogation with White went viral soon aft helium joined Arsenal from Brighton successful 2021, with supporters near aghast erstwhile helium claimed that helium wasn't truly a shot fan

Arsenal prima Ben White claims it isn't existent that helium 'hates' football, but says helium is blessed to power disconnected from the crippled erstwhile he's not playing for the Gunners.

A Sky Sports interrogation with White went viral soon aft helium joined Arsenal from Brighton successful 2021, with supporters near aghast erstwhile helium claimed that he wasn't truly a shot fan and didn't travel the crippled extracurricular of his workplace.

Many went further and adjacent claimed that White, who walked retired of the England squad astatine the Qatar World Cup and has declared himself unavailable for enactment for his country, really 'hated' the game, but helium insists his attack is each portion of his mentation to prolong a vocation astatine the top.

“No, of people not [he doesn't hatred football],” White said successful an Amazon Prime Video interrogation with the erstwhile England goalkeeper Ben Foster. “It was a monolithic thing, determination were a fewer things that I said. Obviously I don’t ticker it.

‘For me, it’s not a large deal. That’s wherefore I said it astatine the time. Training, the magnitude of videos you person to bash each day, it’s truthful extreme, truthful erstwhile I travel location I conscionable privation to hide astir it.

“[My dogs ] are virtually my life, truthful nary shot on, don’t speech astir it erstwhile I travel home, mum and dada don’t talk to maine astir it, it’s conscionable similar it’s not my occupation basically.

“People deliberation that I don’t emotion it, and evidently I don’t ticker it, but I could astir apt archer you astir things astir each winger that I play against oregon the attributes that I’m going to person to travel up against connected the weekend.

“Playing right-back, there’s truthful galore bully left-wingers, each crippled they’re the champion player. If you look astatine each team, 1 oregon two, they’re the best.”

White added that helium prefers to hide the pressures of playing apical level shot for the Gunners erstwhile he's astatine home, but volition instantly power backmost connected the pursuing day.

“It helps maine erstwhile I travel location from football," helium said. "I wholly de-stress and don’t deliberation astir it. The adjacent time I’m 100 per cent focused."

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