Hello, it is World Talking here for a Stupid Opinion Teenagers podcast.
I've just come on to make a quick video on a day we don't usually record on one big and very important matter.
Deli Alley Huma has been out of football for a while.
A lot of media questions about him has come out and spoken with over that.
And Gary Neville today.
And he said some real...
real...saddening, inspiring stuff.
Let's get into it.
Very good.
But because on the All or Nothing documentary, Jose Mourinho called him out as Lazy in a team meeting.
And he's been getting ever since the name Lazy, the nickname Lazy, which is not fair.
As we've learned today, it's not fair. And All or Nothing, Amazon, they didn't put in the middle of that video.
Of that episode that Jose did apologize.
Personally, in the middle of training Deli.
And said he's not Lazy.
And no reaction on his part.
So it's always wrong to call a footballer Lazy.
I love to play football. It's my favorite thing to do.
I love being out there, kicking a ball.
And being called Lazy is one of the worst things you can be caught on the football pitch.
Because you know you're not Lazy.
Very few footballers are Lazy.
And being called Lazy, sometimes soul-crushing, can really down your morale in that game.
Anyway, he spent six weeks in rehab because he kept taking sleeping pills.
Which a lot of footballers do use. It's a common thing in professional football nowadays.
Back in the old days, essentially.
He took them a lot.
And he refused to get help multiple times.
He was told by his teammates, his close friends, Harry Kane, Eric Dyer, Jim Min Son.
He was told to get help, but he didn't want to.
He was numb about it.
He really didn't want to get the help.
Even his adopted family were crying about it.
But he still didn't want any part of it.
He still didn't want any help.
It just took him a while. He went to the USA to get rehab.
And he seems better now.
Just looking at that interview today between him and Gary Neville.
He looked happy. He looked...
Behold...
He looked a new deli alley.
Which is good. He's a... He's a smi... He's really smiling.
He's always smiling.
He's a very talented young lad.
I'll get into what his childhood treated him like.
Which is... I couldn't imagine anything quite like it.
Yeah.
Let's get into it.
At the age of six, he said he was molested by his mum's friend.
Who came over a lot when he was young.
His mum was an alcoholic.
So he couldn't really...
She couldn't really do a lot because she was drunk most of the time.
But he was molested by a family friend.
And that's just so...
Hearing that is horrible.
Absolutely terrible.
Um...
I can relate slightly to this about the alcoholic parent.
My mum wasn't an alcoholic. She isn't to this day.
But...
My mum was dating a man who wasn't alcoholic.
Who was terrible, useless.
And he really didn't help my mum out.
This is why I can't relate. I can't imagine anything deli was going through.
It was only him.
His dad wasn't there.
It was only him.
Drunk mum.
A dodgy family friend.
Absolutely terrible.
I felt...
When I heard that...
Your soul just...a chunk...falls off.
It's horrible.
He was sent to Africa to learn discipline by his mum.
He was sent to his dad's...as his dad lived in Africa.
And he said that he didn't want to be there.
It was horrible. It was a terrible experience.
His dad was a dodgy man.
Deli's never gotten along with his dad.
Still hasn't to this day. He wants nothing to do with it.
Nothing at all.
Don't blame him.
I don't blame him.
What he said about his dad, I can just tell.
Wasn't great.
At the age of seven, Deli started smoking.
At the age of seven...
He started smoking.
That is just...unbelievable.
That's terrible.
Absolutely terrible.
At eight, he started dealing and selling drugs.
Which...is getting more common nowadays.
Around inner cities.
Terrible. Absolutely terrible.
Just think, you may know someone who's dealing drugs, selling them.
Follow this long line of drugs. It's terrible.
At the age of eight, people are doing this.
I mean...
Which is just terrible.
Absolutely terrible.
At the age of eleven, he was hung off a bridge by a man from next estate.
At the age of twelve, he was adopted.
Which kind of saved his life.
Rarely turned him into something great.
It just shows you how rough his background was.
His upbringing. A lot of people thought he had a decent upbringing.
Just a decent...nothing wrong with it.
He was arrested, he smoked at the age of seven.
He was hung off a bridge by a man from the other estate.
Some of us just couldn't imagine what traumatic experience Deli would have gone through.
The happy note is he was adopted by an amazing family who he adores.
I mean, he stressed he adored his adopted family.
They are amazing. They helped him a lot.
I know a friend who was adopted.
His mum and dad. They are so nice.
So nice. Really nice people. Caring.
People get bullied for being adopted in some schools or in some cases.
Which is just horrendous.
Don't be ashamed if you're adopted.
Never be ashamed. It saves people's lives.
It's one of the best programmes in the world being adopted.
It's a clever, very important thing.
Over the years, after his rehab, he understood why his mum was going through.
And why she was having these drinking habits.
He didn't explain what was actually why.
But he did say that he understood her over the years.
He did get a closer bond with her over the years.
And his adopted family tried to urge him to meet his mum.
Which was the right thing to do.
Which I think is a definite good thing to encourage.
As long as they're not going to put the child in danger.
In his rehab, he really understood a few things.
He really saw himself.
Really went through what he had gone through.
Understood it all.
And kind of accepted that this wasn't right.
Everton, which is the club he is at now.
It's done the Pram.
Just about.
Sorry, Everton.
But they apparently were amazing.
Helped him through the week of rehab.
Through the tough times.
He even had a word with Sean Dyche quite recently.
And how Sean has been supporting him through these tough times.
Not to say that he can be his next superstar, Everton.
Just to say, how are you doing?
Is it going?
Is rehab going well?
Are you back to India?
Are you ready?
Are you set?
He said, when he was playing at Spurs.
And he was struggling with his sleeping pills.
And everything was going on.
It was a terrible time for him.
He said that Mauricio Pochettino was a top manager.
And a really nice man to him.
And really cared about him on a personal basis.
When they...
Well, when he left.
Him and his team.
Dully.
Was so gutted.
Yeah.
Pochettino was such a good man to talk to.
And it's just different.
New gaffer.
It's hard to really have that same connection.
Alright.
And finally, which...
This is the right thing.
And this is what a lot of young footballers have.
They don't really like the press.
The media.
And they've been false news to Dully Alley for three years now.
Lazy.
Arrogant.
Useless.
England star gone wrong.
He's not an England star gone wrong.
He's a lot of lazy.
He's not useless.
He's a top player.
Dully Alley.
A real top player.
And a top man.
A top person.
And I hope the media corrects what they've done.
You know, they usually do.
But you need to do something.
Because this is just terrible.
Absolutely terrible.
If I were him, I wouldn't show any concern to the media at all.
They treat him quite poorly.
Over the years.
It's a sad story.
All together.
Dully Alley.
And I just hope that he's got the help he needs.
And everyone is showing support he needs.
He's just come out about this for the first time to the public.
And this is massive.
So so inspirational.
Unbelievably.
You've got to be brave to do this.
Not just like brave.
You've got to be god damn blooming brave.
Respect.
So much support from the team, the crew here.
And hopefully from all of you guys at home.
Dully Alley.
What a legend.
What a football player.
I want a person.
Thank you.