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Disruptors

Paul Merson: Premier League Legend to Cocaine & Gambling Addict, The Rise & Fall of Paul Merson

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Paul Merson is an English former professional footballer, manager and sports television pundit for Sky Sports.  In this episode, Paul opens up completely in possibly the most honest, revealing and harrowing interview Rob has ever done. Paul reveals to Rob: His life-long difficulties with alcoholism His struggles with his gambling addiction The truth about his football career Also featured… His news addiction and how it fed his anxiety What it means to have an addictive personality How football has changed The importance of recognising Mental Health BEST MOMENTS “Gambling’s a killer and it ain’t going away” “It’s not like cancer because some cancers go away” “More people commit suicide through gambling than anything else” “Drinking companies don’t target alcoholics” “We understand mental health now” “There’s not enough hours in the day to be a football manager” "I like a laugh, I don't take myself seriously"  VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “The Disruptive Entrepreneur” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything”   CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0

But I understand now. I do understand I can't have money. I can't. It's it's easier not to have money than to have money.

0:08.8

Paul, you said by the way I just want to say that the documentaries you made I thought they're really moving

0:14.0

and honest. Oh, thank you. I really enjoyed watching them. I kind of did them as my research

0:19.2

but I feel like you showed us a lot of who you are on those. You said on one of them

0:25.9

gambling is the killer and it ain't going away. Which really hit me. Yeah. So have you accepted

0:32.7

that this is who you are? Yeah, surrendered. Yeah, accepted. You know, it's accepted and she's like,

0:39.6

you know, I know I've got an illness now. I just used to fit. I was a bad person always trying to be

0:43.7

good. You know, lose all our money, you know, and I really beat myself up majorly about it. You know,

0:50.4

like, you know, you horrible man, you know, how could you lose all the money? You know what you're

0:55.6

doing. But I know now I am an ill person. I have a choice today. I didn't have a choice before. I

1:01.0

know today I'm an ill person before I didn't know. I just thought I was not a nice person. Always

1:07.2

trying to be good. Now I know if I ever bet it's it's not end until ends when not, you know,

1:14.9

I was in a gambler compulsion gambler's not someone who who has a lorry load of money and then they'll

1:19.6

take it out and go, you know what? I've got what? Like it hurt me to gamble by a pair of trainers

1:26.0

for a hundred pound. But I could easily put ten thousand pounds on something. Wow. That's that's

1:32.4

how it gets you. Do you know what I mean? It gets you like that. It's like, well, why don't I don't

1:36.5

need the trainers? Do you know what I mean? I need a bet, but I don't need the trainers. Wow.

1:41.3

And that's what it was like. You know, I know mates who gamble win and they go bang take it out

1:47.6

gang by a golf club or a set of golf clubs. I'd never ever ever took money out and spent it on me.

1:55.2

Ever. Fuck. Ever. So when you say you know you have an illness, what's there a moment where you

2:03.0

got that realisation where you're not a bad person, you got an illness? Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah,

2:07.6

I mean, then I start looking back and tracking back and then we had the mind thing when I went

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