Holiday bad boys: Grealish and Lampard among Premier League players who've brought shame to the game

Summer is upon us, and that means one thing, sports fan: Loads of incoming newspaper stories and social media posts about English footballers misbehaving on holiday.

Lads doing stupid stuff on holiday in their teens and 20s is nothing new, of course. In fact, we all probably have our own stories we'd rather not share.

That said, it's fun to judge and roll our eyes at the antics of Premier League footballers, and they have given us plenty of opportunity to do just that in the past with some of their holiday antics.

As MK Dons' Connor Wickham emerged from the bench in the play-offs trying to add to his one League One goal this season, part of him must have been wondering where it all went wrong for him.

Wickham was tipped for the top from a very young age and back in 2014 he looked every inch the real deal as he led Sunderland's remarkable great escape from Premier League relegation.

Wickham looked to have finally arrived and when he headed to Marbella that summer confidence must have been soaring.

The 21-year-old racked up a £25,000 bar tab, most of which was spent on a giant 15-litre bottle of champagne, which he used to have himself a little poolside party.

Perhaps at that age and with those resources we'd have been tempted to do the same, but nevertheless it didn't show him in a good light and certainly didn't help the image of Premier League footballers.

Arry on Wickham: 2 mny of em.Eng kids who look great @ young age and dont kick on.£17,5k champagne? Whats that? #safc pic.twitter.com/YW87D995Te

Nowadays, Jack Grealish is a £100million footballer who is celebrating his first Premier League title with Manchester City. In the summer of 2015, he was just another daft teenage lad on holiday.

In fairness, he did just that