Liverpool 'idiot' sparked dressing room ruckus as his confession to wife earned him pariah status

Former Liverpool star Danny Murphy has revealed how an ex Anfield team-mate “alienated” himself after his wife told the manager they had enjoyed “adult entertainment” during a pre-season trip.

The ex England midfielder told the story of the player, who he didn’t name, after Chelsea defender Thiago Silva’s wife Isabelle Silva seemingly called for beleaguered Blues boss Mauricio Pochettino to be sacked at Stamford Bridge with the team toiling in the English Premier League. They slumped to 10th in the table after a 4-2 defeat to Wolves and Silva’s other half took to social media to say: “It’s time to change. If you wait any longer it will be too late”.

She later apologised but it led to Murphy, who spent seven years at Liverpool after signing fro Crewe Alexandra, to share a tale from his time at the Merseyside giants. Murphy, speaking on talkSPORT, said: “I find it bizarre that you would get yourself in that situation where a wife, partner or girlfriend, mother, brother or whoever, starts tweeting about your career and the politics of the club and who should do what.

“It’s beyond my comprehension because it wouldn’t happen on my watch and if it did it would only happen once. If Thiago Silva was 25 and planning a long career at Chelsea it would be more relevant because what’s next? Is she going to tweet about (Ben) Chilwell’s poor defending next week? Where does it stop? Is she going to tweet about (Nicolas) Jackson missing a header at 2-1? Wait, what?

“I remember at Liverpool, we had a little party with all the new players in pre-season and we had some adult entertainment and one of the players’ wives decided to phone the manager and tell him how disgusted she was that he’d put her husband in the situation. He alienated