Just over a year ago, Gibson - who turned 36 on Wednesday - came close to overdosing
There's a gift that all the great football commentators have, and Clive Tyldesley certainly had it. That knack for finding the words that the occasion demanded.
At Old Trafford, Alex Ferguson rolled the dice, and gave a surprise start in midfield towas a 22-year-old from Derry called Darron Gibson. It looked like he was going to fulfil his destiny. After all, in 2006, Gibson won the Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year award at United. "I was good at hiding it. Sometimes I’d take them all at once when we’d be going to sleep and I’d say I was bringing up a drink of water for her.
“Don’t get me wrong, they work. With our schedule, you have a game, you have to be up early in the morning to train. You’ve got all the adrenaline and stuff. “Sleeping pills are not unusual in football,” he said. “When I was a player, you would be offered one the night before a game, always, because a player might not sleep, because of the build up and adrenaline. And sometimes also after a game.”