Watching the players and staff disembark from the plane carrying Manchester City’s squad home from Big Cup final on Sunday, it was hard not to sympathise with Jack Grealish.
Having spent the previous night wandering the bars and foyer of an Istanbul hotel in full kit looking for his clothes, it seemed the 27-year-old had finally found some civvies but was clearly suffering from the effects of what must have been extreme turbulence on the flight home.
Unsteady on his feet as he descended the steps, Grealish’s attempt to walk from the plane to the airport terminal resembled a cross between Neil Armstrong’s moon walk, the video for Jamiroquai’s Virtual Insanity and a slow-motion replay of Jack Grealish attempting to walk from a plane to an airport terminal while all those around him were perambulating in real time.
It is to be hoped that somebody sat the poor fella down once he reached the baggage carousel and administered a stiff drink.