6 wild info about ‘boring’ Milner – squaring as much as Klopp to Brazil ‘kidnapping’

‘Boring’ James Milner, 38, has grow to be one thing of a cultural phenomenon over the previous decade – with fixed jabs abut his fashion of play and love for Ribena.

However, Milner’s longevity within the Premier League has seen himself concerned in his fair proportion of untamed tales through the years. Milner first launched himself to English audiences with Leeds in 2002, and over 20 years later he is nonetheless turning out for Brighton.

In that point he is conquered Europe, grow to be a Premier League champion and represented his nation. But that is the Boring (Milner) stuff, and Daily Star Sport is six wild tales from his profession.

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Feud with Graeme Souness

Milner performed underneath Graeme Souness at Newcastle, however the Scotsman wasn’t too impressed with him – loaning him out to Aston Villa. Souness then infamously quipped: “You won’t win the league with James Milner’s.”

The midfielder was livid with the comment, and the pair’s relationship deteriorated. Milner left Newcastle in 2008, for Villa, and he would go onto win the Prem on three separate events.

Souness would later apologise: “I was trying to say that you needed men. He was only 19 at the time. I apologised to him for that and I hope he’s forgiven me. You can never have enough James Milner’s in the dressing room. He makes other players turn up.”

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Sent off by his outdated PE Teacher

Milner’s heritage in Leeds is well-known, nonetheless it isn’t the identical story for former Premier League referee Jon Moss. The official labored Westbrook Lane Primary School in Wortley – the place he was a PE trainer and coach for Milner in his youthful years.

However, that did not imply Milner was given any particular therapy by his outdated tutor – as Moss despatched him off towards Crystal Palace. Milner was given his second yellow card throughout their conflict in January 2019, when he was judged to have fouled Wilfried Zaha.

Moss has since retired from refereeing, and he now owns a vinyl store in Leeds: The Vinyl Whistle.

Boring Milner Twitter

Long earlier than Milner first graced social media, there was an account on Twitter, now often called X, known as Boring Milner.

The tweet format was fairly easy: “Joel Matip just told me today was my 850th club career appearance. I said I know Joel. My last one was my 849th, so this one was my 850th.” The account now has over 600,000 followers on the platform.

It got here full circle when Milner joined the platform, sharing an image of him ironing a t-shirt.

He simply will not cease operating

After transferring to Liverpool, Milner would normally clean-up throughout Jurgen Klopp‘s brutal lactate take a look at. The take a look at is easy, gamers are tasked to run rising distances at pace.

At the top of every checkpoint, a pattern of blood is taken from every participant’s ear to measure their lactic acid stage. If their stage is simply too excessive, they need to drop out. Last man standing wins – and it was at all times Milner on his personal on the finish of the take a look at.

“We are a match crew, there are a variety of gamers who’ve nice engines – Hendo, Gini, Robbo. But Milly, I don’t suppose I’ll ever see anybody as match as him,” Andy Robertson informed the Peter Crouch Podcast.

Squaring as much as Jurgen Klopp

Reds flop Ragnar Klavan recalled an incident when tensions boiled over within the dressing room after Liverpool misplaced extra floor within the title race. In January 2017, the Reds drew to Sunderland – and Klopp and Milner nearly got here to blows.

“Klopp and James Milner almost started a physical fight. It was the period when there was Boxing Day in England and they almost started fighting but eventually Milner stepped back.

“We noticed from his eyes that Klopp would have gone all the way in which simply to show his level. It was essentially the most traumatic time for him as effectively. He was underneath a variety of stress!”

England kidnapping

Milner was fortunate sufficient to signify England on the 2014 World Cup – however he revealed he was nearly kidnapped in Brazil. Milner had been taking part in golf, however he was pressured to go away the lodge grounds to get to one of many holes.

“We’re walking down the street and we’ve turned around and there is a group of guys. We’re glancing and we’re walking a bit quicker and they’re walking a bit quicker. Then they start jogging, so we start running and we’re like, ‘we’re in trouble here.’ So we start sprinting, we can out-run them.

“So we’re running down and the next thing, a car pulls up next to us. So I’m like, we’re getting kidnapped here, it’s game over. The door slides open, mid-run and it’s the boys, the security and it’s ‘quick, get in!’ We jumped in, on the move, back to the hotel.”