Footballers who smoke

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

I can't believe any professional sportsman or woman would even consider smoking or drinking. Utter utter madness.

I can't believe why anyone would consider smoking nowdays...

 

[Giraffe]

I don't get smoking. Don't understand the point. And don't get why a professional sportsman would do it.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Plenty of subs during the Barry Lloyd era would have suffered the effects of passive smoking. No chance of the subs escaping the smoky haze around Bazza as his (non) use of substitutes was legendary. He once loaned a lad from Man-Utd called Paul McGuinness, who spent FIVE games on the bench without getting near the pitch.

His lungs were probably in a state when he returned to Old Trafford....

 

[Benjyman1990]

Can anyone tell me where i can get a pack of these "crafty" fags that you speak of? I've heard a lot about them but never come across them!!

 

[pornomagboy]

I bet the players have a smoking area in the Amex for a half time smoke

 

[Falkor]

Rob Green does, he often takes one of them fake cigs onto the pitch

 

[sir albion]

How stupid are these people? They are athletes - or so you'd like to think - with a very short career span. Tho having said that, there were some telly shots t'other day of Olympic Village idiots have a crafty smoke on their balconies also.

Matter of choice and your not in a position to call them stupid.

 

[hawlie]

think its a bit of a shame as footballers are idols to basically every boy, bad role models

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

In David Ginola's first autobiography he confesses to smoking up to 25-30 whilst at PSG and Newcastle

Blimey, that works out at 5-6 a year !!

Bloody addict

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I don't get smoking. Don't understand the point. And don't get why a professional sportsman would do it.

Illuminati influence most likely.

 

[chrissyboy01]

Saw Brez, family, and Caspar in a Nero in town yesterday. Ankergren was near chaining it. I thought "well he's not an outfield player I suppose" but i bet it still has some bearing on performance.

I bet if you threw a carton of 200 snouts from the corner flag he'd have no problem catching them

 

[del_boy]

Andy Carroll smokes

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

famous people smoking cigarettes

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Andy Carroll smokes

Quelle surprise.

 

[Bognor Bystander]

Scorates and Cruyff were absolute chainers apparently. I think they were pretty good footballers too...

Yes Socrates who died last year was a heavy smoker, also a regular beer drinker and a medically qualified Doctor but he was still a superb midfielder.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Andy Carroll smokes

No he doesn't. He Smiiiiiiirks Tabs leek marra!

ps There seems to have been a sizable proportion of really GREAT footballers who smoke. Maybe we should view getting the Development Squad on the Bensons as a priority?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

 

[Farehamseagull]

Ex Croatian international midfielder Robert Prosinecki was a massive chain smoker. When he was at Portsmouth I served him loads of cigarettes at the 'Alldays' shop I used to work in part time when I was at school.

Remember being very excited about serving him but massively confused that such a good player could smoke so much. He was a heck of a player.

 

[oldalbiongirl]

and he lived until 85! (Although was apparently a non drinker so perhaps that balanced it out!)

 

[big nuts]

I once saw Dennee Mundee smoking outside the team bus after Mansfield away in the late nineties. We really were shit 15/20 years ago.