Toon Defender In Drink Allegations!

Last updated : 08 October 2006 By Footy Mad - Editor

An international team-mate has confirmed Moore was drinking at a casino in Sydney the night before he was due to board the plane. But while Zeljko Kalac admitted Moore was in a coma-like state when he tried to wake him the next morning, the keeper backed up his team-mate's insistence that jetlag and a sleeping pill were to blame.

Zeljko Kalac: "We were having a couple of drinks. Who doesn't drink? But it wasn't an all-night party. He (Moore) took a sleeping pill after a few beers - you don't mix those kinds of things. We tried to wake him but you're in a coma."