Vincent Kompany’s big dream is over - and he can’t even drown his sorrows

A bad year for the Manchester City skipper got worse with the closure of his two pubs in Belgium.

Kompany launched the Good Kompany bars - in Brussels and Antwerp - last March, having had a 'dream of a sports bar for a long time,' according to his licensed trade consultant Jan Oppens.

Alongside the customary bank of screens showing sport hung some of Kompany’s match-worn shirts and some of the swaps he’d gathered from opponents including Carlos Tevez, Raphael Varane, Roberto Carlos and Craig Bellamy.