David Prentice: Sex, booze and pills ? the Andy van der Meyde story

02 November 2012 07:00
Thanks to the phenomenon that is Twitter, I’ve exchanged pleasantries this week with the enigmatic former footballer that is Andy van der Meyde.
 
He is fit and well, is taking his coaching badges – and jokes “in a few years I make Everton champions of the Premier League, ha ha!” He is also hoping to top the best seller lists in his native Holland with a recently published autobiography. The bad news for British fans is that there are no plans to sell in the UK – bad news because it sounds like a hugely entertaining romp of a read – a sort of Addicted (Tony Adams’ upfront autobiography) meets The Good, The Bad and the Bubbly (George Best’s first life story). The Sun carried excerpts last weekend, although van der Meyde insists he did not give an interview to the newspaper reviled round these parts. Here are a few titbits, just to give you a flavour.

“They (Everton) offered me £30,000 a week — more than double my pay at Inter Milan. I bought a Ferrari and first stop was the Newz Bar, a popular place in Liverpool. After a couple of hours of alcohol I drove to the nearest strip club. Getting drunk in a strip club in the middle of Liverpool was not very smart. But I had a strong longing for naked women.”

As you do, then ...

“I saw a brunette and I wanted to have sex with her. But after I’d had sex with Lisa once I was addicted, she was wild, crazy and horny.”

Source: liverpool_echo