“If I do remorse something, it is that…” – David Bentley reveals the one factor he wished he’d performed in another way throughout his enjoying profession

On the top of his powers, winger David Bentley was in comparison with a younger David Beckham and predicted to turn out to be a Three Lions legend. 

However the former Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur winger ended up falling out of affection with the sport and retiring in 2013 on the age of 29 – to the shock of soccer followers throughout the nation. 

His causes have been clear: Bentley believed that soccer had turn out to be boring, predictable and too skilled because of social media and elevated commercialisation of the sport. The dressing room antics of his youth have been a factor of the previous, and soccer had slowly turn out to be a chore. 

“Individuals typically ask me if I remorse leaving Arsenal as a younger participant or retiring after I did however no,” he tells FourFourTwo on behalf of William Hill forward of this weekend’s North London Derby. “I would grown uninterested in the sport and I wished to spend extra time at house with my household and concentrate on different issues. I liked my profession, do not get me incorrect. I received to do one thing many individuals dream about nevertheless it was time to name it a day. I opened my bar in Marbella amongst different issues and I wished to offer my consideration to that.”