Jack Grealish: England World Cup star admits he's done 'stupid stuff'

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England guardant Jack Grealish admits helium has made mistakes successful his career, but insists helium has a "good heart" contempt his skirmishes with controversy.

"I bash anserine stuff, that was one," Grealish said of the incident.

Almiron aboriginal said Grealish was "a large player" and that helium would happily shingle hands with him.

"As agelong arsenic I retrieve I person ne'er truly paid attraction to what radical accidental to maine disconnected the field," the Paraguayan said past month.

Grealish, who reached retired to apologise to Almiron aft the video of his comments went viral, said helium was grateful to beryllium forgiven.

"I thought 'what a guy, man' due to the fact that if that was maine and idiosyncratic had said that astir me, I'd person astir apt been the different way," said Grealish, adding helium was "buzzing" astatine the Newcastle forward's bully signifier successful the Premier League this season.

"I've got a bully heart, I deliberation I have. Obviously I've done anserine worldly successful my beingness but I deliberation everything that I bash bully is from my heart."

The 27-year-old came connected successful each 3 of England's games truthful acold astatine the World Cup, scoring successful the 6-2 triumph implicit Iran.

The extremity gave him the accidental to fulfil a committedness to Finlay Fisher, a City-supporting schoolboy with cerebral palsy, and observe with a creation the brace had travel up with.

The England prima told Finlay helium did a "little solemnisation conscionable for you" aft his goal

"That's earthy - I don't bash that for immoderate clout oregon whatever," said Grealish.

"I bash that due to the fact that that's what I consciousness similar I'm bully astatine sometimes."

Grealish admitted that helium he was annoyed by immoderate of the sum of the squad successful the aftermath of a dull 0-0 gully with the United States that came betwixt the radical signifier wins implicit Iran and Wales.

"After 1 crippled I was speechmaking worldly astir however we were dismal. That tin hap to anyone. I deliberation we bash merit immoderate recognition arsenic a team," helium added

"We've got 7 points, 2 cleanable sheets now, conceded lone doubly successful 3 games and evidently scored 9 goals."

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