Jack Grealish has no regrets over Manchester City treble celebrations after ‘most successful season of my life’

Jack Grealish has made no apologies for his lengthy celebrations after Manchester City’s treble win and says he and his team-mates deserved to enjoy themselves.

Grealish often appeared to be at the centre of the festivities, and while he admits when he turned up to England duty last week he was a “bit hungover”, he has played down the perception that he is a “party boy”.

“But then there’s so many people that will come here and say to you ‘I don’t do this, I don’t do that’ when they do.

“I’m just truthful because when you see me doing anything, you’d be like: ‘Oh, hold on. He said a few weeks ago in an interview that he didn’t do that’.

“But listen, I just enjoy myself, I’m living my dream of playing for the best club in the world in my opinion, we’ve just won the treble so I’m going to obviously have a break now with my family and my friends and then I’ll be raring to go again in four weeks.

“I knew what I was doing, that’s just the way I am, I’m like that when I party usually. Actually, I’m not like that usually but we’ve won the treble and it’s something that [may] never happen again.

“So I went and enjoyed myself and I wasn’t the only one – I think a lot of the time you’ll see everyone recording me, I could show you all this stuff of other people where they were the same.

“Listen, we all enjoyed ourselves, other people enjoy themselves where the cameras weren’t but that was just me enjoying myself, I’d had the most successful season of my life.

“Years ago, you’d have a season for nine months, I’ve just laid out a 12-month season. I’ve been to a World Cup, I’ve won three trophies and then I’m going to be back training now in four weeks or so, why not enjoy myself?”

Grealish and the rest of his England team-mates at Manchester City turned up for international duty early last week.

Grealish played just 32 minutes across England’s two Euro 2024 qualifying wins against Malta and North Macedonia.

He says he wasn’t spoken to by England boss Gareth Southgate about his behaviour and his involvement in the games was as expected.

“I don’t know what you guys [media] read and think sometimes. I have a great relationship with him [Southgate], honestly. A brilliant relationship.

“I kind of knew in the back of my head that I wouldn’t play on the Friday [against Malta]. But even so, I came into camp on Tuesday night, I was a bit hungover but I wasn’t drunk or anything.

“I came into camp with the other guys, we slept then woke up and trained on Wednesday. We trained on Thursday and, like I said, in the back of my mind, I knew I wasn’t going to play on the Friday.

“Then on the Saturday, I trained and trained well. Then on the Sunday. I thought it was going to be a toss-up with who plays.

“I came on [against Macedonia] and I’m just happy. I’ve had a brilliant season, the most successful season of my life and I think there is a time now I can just sit and relax.

“My emotions have been so high. When I was sitting in the camp on Thursday, it was the biggest high I’d been on in my whole life at the weekend.

“You come into the camp, you sit on your own in your room and think ‘Will I ever feel that high again?’.”

England’s next game is against Ukraine in September.