London, Dec 22 (ANI): Football star Jermain Defoe has revealed how he tried to stop a gang of youths from take part in the London riots that rocked Britain earlier this year.
The Tottenham Hotspur striker told London's Biggest Conversation Radio that he was walking in Woodford, North East London, when he bumped into a group.
"I walked around the corner, going to get something to eat and I just saw a group of kids. So I stopped them and said 'What are you doing?', knowing where they were going," The Sun quoted Defoe, as saying.
"They said "We're going to riot', so I said 'Do you even know what you're rioting about? What are you rioting for?' They said 'What else are we supposed to do? We haven't got any jobs'. I just told them it was crazy," Defoe said.
"When I was a kid, I wasn't doing things like this and I was really shocked when I saw what was going on," he added.
Defoe described how people were too "scared to leave their houses, it was so mad" during the riots.
He admitted he could have ended up in a similar position if he had not made it as a footballer, and thanked his role model mum. (ANI)
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