Adam Lallana: Inside the body and mind of a Liverpool player - the life at home
Given the immense scrutiny and pressure modern-day footballers come under on a daily basis, home life has huge significance when it comes to unwinding and resting. So what is life like off the pitch for Adam Lallana at the moment?
“I can’t really switch off from football at home at the moment…”
My lad is at an age now where he loves football. We’ve got two little goals set up in the play room and this morning he was pretending to be Deli Alli because of the goals he’s scored recently, and I have to be Mignolet at the moment, diving around in the net! I try to switch off as much as possible, but he’s football mad at the moment. With Liverpool doing well, he is coming to the games and we’re just enjoying it. Hopefully we can keep doing well in the second half of the season and have something to celebrate come the end of it.
“Home is the perfect place for me to relax alongside my family…”
I have been watching Suits and I am on the third season of Peaky Blinders, which is brilliant – absolutely brilliant. My wife is only on the first season, so we don’t watch it together. Celebrity Big Brother is on, so I’ll possibly be watching while it’s on in the background – but that’s the Mrs’ decision! Relaxing at home is all about spending it with my two boys and my wife. We eat dinner together, then it’s bath time for the lads and then we get them off to bed. If there’s football on the TV, it’ll always be on in our house. Arthur will want to stay up to watch, so he’ll sometimes sit up with us and then get off to bed. It’s a nice routine. I am quite big with routines.
“Seeing the lads away from football is good for us all…”
It’s great. We get together whenever we can. It’s important you spend time with your family, but when you get together with everyone from the squad that’s great as well. My kids are at a very similar age to Jordan’s kids and they’re very, very good friends – his oldest girl and my eldest lad. That’s nice and good to see them grow up together. Arthur is going to school this year, that’s scary! The thought of him going to school is probably scarier for me then stepping out at Anfield in front of 54,000 fans, put it that way!