Walsall fans. I wanted to be a good manager but I was really bad with drink and gambling at the time. I should have done better.
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Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
United Kingdom · b. 1968
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Born in London, Paul Merson, 54, started his career at Arsenal as an apprentice. He spent 11 seasons with the club, winning the League Championship twice, the FA Cup, the League Cup and the European Cup Winners’ Cup; he went on to play for Middlesbrough, Aston Villa and Portsmouth. He was capped 21 times for England, playing in the 1992 European Championship and the 1998 World Cup. Now a Sky Sports pundit, he is also an ambassador for Recoverlution, an online platform for people in recovery. Married for the third time, he has eight children and lives in London.
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Nothing, because it’s up to me how I feel. I’ve been a millionaire three times and I still wanted to kill myself.
Thirty-odd years ago I bought a black pinstripe suit which I thought was £900. But when I went to pay that was just the jacket – the trousers and waistcoat were extra. I didn’t have the balls to put anything back. I dread to think how much it cost me in the end.
For me, love is working through things when it’s not going well.
On holiday in Orlando with my wife, Kate, and kids just before lockdown. I wasn’t drinking or gambling. I was so happy, so at peace with myself – I’d been searching for that for many a year.
Going back to addiction.
When you jump out of addiction and look back, things like drink-driving and sitting in crack houses are not good.
That materialistic things will not make you happy.
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