Chelsea legend reveals boozy Christmas party trick that stopped him ‘being in a coma for seven days’

CHELSEA fable Gus Poyet has revealed details astir an iconic Christmas enactment instrumentality helium utilized to debar drinking excessively overmuch booze.

The erstwhile Blues prima explained however helium cleverly avoided "being placed successful a coma for 7 days" during Chelsea nights out.

Poyet reckons helium mastered the signifier of harmless drinking during his 5 years successful West London betwixt 1997 and 2001.

In fact, the Uruguayan yet held his hands up to admit that helium would crook up hours precocious to debar a deadly hangover.

Poyet told The Times:"For Christmas nights retired successful London the players would get unneurotic astatine 2 o’clock, truthful I would get determination astatine seven.

"If I commencement astatine 2 — I’m not going to sanction names but the mode immoderate could portion was unbelievable.

"And the adjacent day, they bid — nary problem. Me, I would beryllium successful a coma for 7 days.”

When asked astir his societal beingness astatine Chelsea, helium said: "Top. But the drinking civilization — I was shocked. I retrieve being injured, my archetypal nighttime out.

"They gave maine a brew and I’m holding it, I don’t cognize if I’m going to drink. And past they bring maine different 1 and enactment it successful my different hand.

"I adapted. I knew you person to springiness thing of yourself and adjacent if I wasn’t a large drinker I needed to beryllium present. Part of the team.

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"So I ne'er missed a nighttime out, but did it my way."

When asked astir the football, Poyet said: "It was physical. I liked it. Away from home, north, it was ever tough. Leeds!

"A emblematic question they inquire maine everyplace successful the satellite is: 'who was the toughest subordinate you play against?'

"Well, each clip you were facing Roy Keane you needed to beryllium prepared. Because you knew helium was coming."

Poyet scored 49 goals successful 145 Chelsea midfield appearances aft joining arsenic a escaped agent.

He joined Tottenham successful May 2021 for astir £2.2m and scored 14 goals successful his debut season, helping Spurs scope the League Cup last wherever they mislaid 2-1 to Blackburn.

His clip astatine Spurs was blighted by injuries aft helium sustained cruciate ligament harm for the 2nd clip successful his vocation successful August 2002.

After hanging up his boots in 2004, Poyet began his coaching vocation arsenic adjunct manager of Swindon Town.

He aboriginal managed Brighton, Sunderland, AEK Athens and the Greece nationalist squad until his declaration ended successful March this year.