Injured or not, as a nocturnal activity before your team's latest attempt to claw back some integrity from a wretched campaign, visiting the nightclub Snobs is a poor decision.
Gareth Barry spent his Friday night at Birmingham's best-known student music venue and posed for pictures with some fresh-faced revellers. Snobs was showing Middlesbrough v Wolves and Derby v Sunderland, but nobody is trying to sell the idea Barry was scouting for future Championship fixtures. It was just plain odd to discover that the 37-year-old, sidelined with a knee problem, was whiling away the hours at a place synonymous with teenage kicks.