#300. Paul Merson's Drug Debt Nightmares

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Paul Merson is a former English footballer, now commentator and sports pundit for Sky Sports. Me and Merse discuss the dark side of football and the harsh realities of addiction. Merse also shares his favourite manager and the best player he had ever played against.

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0:00.0	Everything I ever won, I appreciated it the year after when someone else won it.
0:03.8	Arson was so far ahead of his time. It was scary. Scary how good he was.
0:07.6	You know, I played under Harry. I think Harry's one of the best.
0:10.1	Al-Lo Maldini was marking me. He was the greatest player I ever played here.
0:13.4	I got a £1.4 million signing on thing.
0:15.7	To go to Villa?
0:16.4	Yeah.
0:16.7	Dennis Burkamp weren't getting what I was getting. And I was planning the championship. Yeah, okay. Did you know how good you were?
0:22.1	No.
0:22.4	So you never sat back in one day, man, you know what?
0:24.3	Attacking midfield, everyone's talking about me.
0:26.3	Like... No, because I always knew what I was doing off the pitch.
0:28.5	You know, when you're taking the drink and the drugs, you come down like that.
0:31.2	Gambling, I was 150 grand up.
0:39.0	From Friday to Monday I had to give them 100 so I'd lost 250. I just didn't see a way out.
0:44.4	Paranoia you know I'd come home from training I'd pull the curtains sit indoors I'm petrified.
0:49.7	I lost about a million pound I reckon over my career.
0:52.2	You lost a million betting. Someone give me a hundred grand credit. When I look back over my career. You lost £1,000. Someone gave me 100 grand credit.
0:55.0	When I look back on my career now, I went for money.
0:58.0	My addictions took over.
0:59.0	At peak, how much...
1:00.0	...would you take in one day?
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