Ronamatroid
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When Arsenal went to Bermuda for a team holiday in 1989, the whole squad ended up in a nightclub one night and as was usually the case, plenty of drink was involved.
At some point in the middle of it, Paul Merson and Gus Caesar started going at each other.
There was a bit of a scuffle, they got pulled apart, and right at the end of it Gus poked Merson in the eye.
Merson knew there was no point trying to fight him there and then because Gus Caesar was built for that sort of thing and he wasn’t.
So he went for the other option.
He let everything calm down, waited for the others to stay out, then went back to the hotel with Steve Bould.
At reception they blagged the key to Gus’s room.
Gus was sharing with Paul Davis, which should really have been reason enough to leave the whole thing alone.
Paul Davis was not exactly known for being soft.
Merson ignored that.
Once he got in, he just started wrecking the place.
He stamped on a watch.
He smashed up the board games lying around the room.
He threw a bucket of water at the ceiling and left it dripping back down.
Then he threw a bed off the balcony.
After that, he and Bouldy just laughed and went back to their own room.
The next morning the whole thing came back to him in stages.
“Oh no, what the f*** have I done?”
He got dressed and went across the corridor hoping he might somehow get there first and tidy it up.
He was too late.
Paul Davis had already left a note on the door.
“Gus, the little s*** have busted the room up. Just leave it and go to sleep somewhere else. Paul.”
A bit later the phone in the room went.
It was George Graham.
“Room 312. Now.”
Merson and Bould walked in and found the room still wrecked.
Water dripping from the ceiling.
The games smashed to pieces across the floor.
The balcony doors open.
The bed outside by the pool.
Then he looked up and saw who was in there.
Tony Adams.
Lee Dixon.
Nigel Winterburn.
Alan Smith.
George Graham.
And in the corner, Gus Caesar sitting there shirtless, twitching, jaw clenched, looking ready to smash someone.
Paul Davis was behind him massaging his shoulders.
Which is not really what you want to see before breakfast.
George looked at Merson and asked the question.
“What’s all this, Paul?”
“Yeah, I know boss. Me and Gus had a bit of an argument and I came back here and trashed his room.”
George thought about it for a second and then came up with a very straightforward solution.
“Well, why don’t you go outside now and sort it out between yourselves?”
Merson was suddenly a lot less keen on confrontation than he had been the night before.
Gus looked ready.
Paul Davis was backing him.
Merson knew if he went outside with Gus Caesar he was getting absolutely battered.
He apologised, backed down, and took whatever came next.
Nobody at the club spoke to him for two months.
He got thrown out of the players’ pool as well.
Which, given the alternative was having to go outside with Gus Caesar, was probably still the better deal.

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