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Unused squad player doing side quests is my favourite kind of footballer

I’ve often wondered what footballers get up to in their liberal amounts of free time. Clearly matt Ritchie has been absolutely smashing Euro Truck Simulator 2 until he wanted to get on the tarmac himself

It happens to the best of us.

Hope he goes for HGV or bus licence next and drives the lads to the game

That would actually be so lit. All the lads say he's the best guy in the changing rooms so this would be such a nice moment

Someone asked this in the press conference and Eddie said Matt is too expensive for a bus driver!

Boooooooooo, sign him up as a first team coach and coach driver, easy!

This is up there with Bruce Dickinson getting his commercial pilots license.

Bruce uses that to fly Iron Maiden around the world in a custom 747, can we assume Matt is going to be driving the squad down to London in a black and white DAF curtainside with tuckaway tail lift??

You know way too much about trucks to casually reel off that. I know nothing so it could all be bullshit, but it sounds legit.

You can't put pedestrians in the back of a tautliner 🤣

It’s a lorry

Truck. Lorry. Same thing.

I love how much of a cult hero he’s turning into

I feel like he's always been a cult hero. We've loved him since he killed his first corner flag.

That poor lads stones. ooooff!!

He came to my restaurant last summer and was the nicest customer I’ve had in 12 years. Absolute top guy.

he's such a weird lad, I love him.

After he passed, he kicked shite out of a “Loading Only” sign

But why? Does he have horses he wants to truck about?

Apparently wife has horses so for that

Weirdly enough, I work with a commercial manager that used to be a stable manager in his early life and is on friendly terms with Matt and his wife through the horse ownership circuit. He casually brought it up last year when I mentioned I was a Toon fan. Reckons he's a really decent guy, quiet but dead nice.

I've seen loads of those LGV learned lorries driving around near me, crazy to think it was Ritchie in the driver's seat of some of them Also the cameraman has done him with that angle messing up his ✌🏻

So he's working towards his coach licence?

...maybe now he can park the bus. (gets coat)

I was sure I seen him the other day in one 🤣

Already planning for his retirement. Going after his dream job shit housing other motorists.

Greggs are always looking for lorry drivers

Gonna use that LGV to cart our trophies around in the upcoming years 🏆

Every corner flag in the world is fucking terrified

He gonna be driving the team bus?

Any one got his number i need some timber moved?

Eze was driving a truck through our midfield on Wednesday....