Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery

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From the 2012–2015 season Merson co-hosted with John Fendley on the Sky Sports TV programme 'Fantasy Football Club'. From the start of the 2015 season Max Rushden took on co presenting after John Fendley returned to Soccer AM as a co-host. Fantasy Football Club is aired weekly on Friday evenings at 6pm. Both co-hosts also co-managed a fantasy team in the Sky Fantasy 'Celebrities' League. [ citation needed] Personal life [ edit ] Paul Merson faces drink-drive charge after M40 crash". BBC News. 6 December 2011 . Retrieved 6 December 2011. Watch Sky Sports duo claim Irish player should get England call-up". Laois Nationalist. 30 September 2016. Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. When manager Glenn Hoddle told him he was out of the squad, Gazza turned into Keith Moon and started smashing up the furniture. He was in a terrible state when I caught up with him in his room, bleeding, crying, not making sense. It was awful to see him like that. Having lived with him for three months, I knew he was in a bad place.

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But without GA my shield had gone. When a lot of my television and speaking work was cancelled due to Covid, I started to scheme. I tried to double our savings by gambling and lost everything, even the deposit for a house. Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades. Will Ferrell calls Ryan Reynolds a 'dodgy Canadian' as he meets the Hollywood star's Wrexham players, while touring the Welsh side's stadiumIn Merson’s raw and sometimes harrowing new book, which is also full of pathos, he describes how he saw space and clarity on the pitch. He compares this ability to a chess prodigy plotting a strategy four or five moves ahead. But in real life he saw little but blurring chaos. He suggests that his brain is “wired differently. It helped me on the pitch. Ask the lads at Arsenal, or anywhere I played. It drove them up the wall. They would complain I was always aiming for the glory ball. It was like my gambling, my drinking, my drugging. It was risk-taking. I didn’t see fear. I could do it and I kept on doing it.

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Al-Hilal are SLAMMED for posting a graphic wishing Neymar well after his ACL injury which shows the Brazilian star screaming on the floor in painDrink made my relationship with my fiancee Lorraine volatile. Cruelty comes easily to addicts. If you can’t stand yourself, it’s a knee-jerk thing to project all that loathing on to the people you love. I’d be provocative when Lorraine protested about the state I was in, the lies I’d told about when I was coming home and the crowd of drinkers I’d brought in at 4am.

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I’ve taken a penalty for England in a World Cup shootout and it never entered my mind to be scared. On the field, I was safe. But away from football, things were very different.Erik ten Hag throws his support behind Antony as he admits that 'noise' around the winger has contributed to...