“He was like a raging bull,” Carlton Cole began by commenting to Joe Cole on Tom Davis' All to Play podcast. The former striker remembered Asier Del Horno, one of his teammates in his time at Chelsea, uncovering some funny anecdotes.
“He could drink more than any Englishman and then come home sober!” Claimed Joe Cole, while Carlton was blown away by it. “So when I saw it, I thought, 'Wow, it fits our philosophy here! It fits into our philosophy, you don't want to eat. He wants to go to the betting houses and then have a few and then go home “in a cast,” that's what he wants to do. ” So I said: Yes, it belongs to us. He's a great kid. “
Del Horno signed for Chelsea in 2006 and under José Mourinho he played a total of 34 games and lifted the Premier League. However, a year later, the former Athletic player returned to the Spanish league with Valencia.
Joe Cole recounted the time he went with Del Horno and Shaun Wrigt-Phillips to see an Arctic Monkeys concert. “I remember going to an Arctic Monkeys concert and going with Shaun Wright-Phillips. It was after a game, he was sitting next to Wrighty and I had one more ticket and I just said, “Del Boy, do you feel like it?” He didn't speak a word of English and said, 'Yes, I'll join. No English, so we drove to Bournemouth to see the Arctic Monkeys, he didn't know who they were, he stood in the bar and we went to see the concert. I left him at the bar chatting with some Chelsea fans. I promise you, Tom, I had no more than five words in English. But he sat talking to these guys for about two or three hours. We came and picked him up after the concert and he was excited, he loved social gatherings very much. “