'Politics' held me back - Bent; IN BRIEF.DARREN BENT Darren Ashley Bent (born February 6, 1984 in Tooting, London) is an English footballer of Jamaican descent, currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur. There is some confusion over Bent's birthplace with nearly all biographies available - typically of a brief nature - saying has admitted his career had come to a standstill standstill /stand·still/ (stand´stil?) cessation of activity, as of the heart (cardiac s.) or chest (respiratory s.) . stand·still n. Complete cessation of activity or progress. at Tottenham and expressed his relief at leaving a club that he claims was rife with "politics". He said: "I would say maybe my career stayed still (at Tottenham) but the second season I still scored a lot of goal and I had to grow up as a person and a player. There's a lot of politics at Tottenham, but that's Tottenham as a club. "I'm a Sunderland player now and it seems a lot more relaxed here." |
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