Paul Merson Opens up on Addictions, Football Legacy & Losing Millions Gambling

I was drinking and the game from 16 and I had a year in cocaine, which put my knees, you know that I ended up in the crack crack houses, but I did not smoke cigarettes. The moment I was drinking and the game, and it should have obtained the sack, it is the worst addiction in the world that is so evident, but you leave a hand grenade behind you, it is fine, you ruin the lives of people who hurt people who have love what you think when we have had some high profile cases like Ivan Tony, for example, I think he does, what I have done is a disease, it is a Cases of good, it is not a time that you waste me time, what seems to me, what seems to me, what seems to me time, what seems to me time.

In a rented house I have to work a millionaire two or three times and wanted to commit suicide in them in the times that the richest people in the world are the people who live at the time in I realized that I am not going to be good enough, obviously, you were good enough, do you remember a moment in the opposite in which you thought you know what I will be good to do here? I will be able to be a professional, not always, I always felt as if I was going through the system, no, oh, yes, no, it was not one, I was very, very nervous when I was very.

For doctors with my mother and the doctor, they only said that they stop playing Wow

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, but I learned to deal with that at the end, whether at the back of the coach or in a brown paper bag that you know and, as the games advanced and I got used more to my usual, I am controlling my UH again, so yes, I am not one of them, when I was playing England later in my career, I I have always thought about it here, I did not do it here. Of them boys, now I am, you know that I could be in a room and you know that I enter and that I am not one of them, I am here a type of boys, but, and then I would be sitting in a room and someone else would enter the one I played and that they played and they are the bowling and they would be and I think that I was what I mean to what I have that brain.

Candy Ok, yes, yes, you know it's very different, you know people who drip people and skills. They simply do not pate you from one pillar to another, now you know that in them the days you know that Stuart Pierce, who was the most difficult player I played, but he was the most fair, but the hardest, but he gets the ball to pick you and ask you, I feel it, but I will do it again in a minute and you do not know, and you know it, and you know it, and you know it made. Moments in your career there are things that really stand out, you think, oh, I am very happy to experiment oh play in a World Cup, yes, for England, I mean that growing, you know that growing, eight 82, you know that seeing the 78th World Cup 78 Argentina Mario Campz and then you know 82 and the Maradon World Cup, the World Cup, do you know 86?

And then, literally, going to play in the World Cup was yes, something that you can always do not many people in a conversation that I could say yes, I played in the World Cup, there are many people, oh yes, I won the FA Cup that I won the League Cup that you know I won the Premier League or it was the old division one at that time that I only changed the name of the same league, but not many people can bring to the table they played in the World Cup, so they So, so definitely, what I would definitely like, and then, and then, and then, then, what definitely?

And it's time to hang the boots, what was difficult? Do you feel ready? You think you should have retired before. I love

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No. I love football. I am addicted to football, I think that if I were inside, if it were a good team, I could have played, but it was only so good and I am not saying that Weren players were not good players, but it was not good enough, so I needed to be with the best players as the best players of the best players. Phenomenal phenomenal player who went to Colchester and ended in six months well if he had stayed in Man United or somewhere as that could have played until every time you know yes, you know why, right?

My time I play. I think I played 700 times and a single one that I did not win in the game was that it was the European Cup that was called in the days and we only had an opportunity to regret it to look back in the management of your career. The senior managers and my

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were R at the time I was drinking and the game, and it was not the right time and miserably failed in the end in my opinion and I should have obtained the bag long before I did. He wants to go out to kill, he even mentioned his

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and that is something he really wanted to talk to you about what has been very open, it was difficult for a decision of awareness that he took well, I will start talking about this was that it is not difficult not, since I and discovered that he was a person who was fine and that he was not a person who always looked for a good person who had to be open and discovered that the people of the people had been It had to be open and assure me of people's people. there now who are stuggling with addiction you know mental health you know and pelepo need to know that they The you beat yourself up your self-eastem goes you let people down you start to hate youurself so what's the best thing i can do to get out the way i feel you know what what i do i do I have a drink or have a bet or i or take a drarug and it ' Record broken with the needle stuck in the broken record, it is only a round and round and knows that that is why I was open is like making people really understand that he is a sick person who needs to be fine, that's fine, since if you went to the doctor tomorrow and the doctor said that he does not have a great allergy and cannot buy and buy a packet of nuts and that is what he has the thing with the addition of a person. that has an allergy that cannot drink and buy a disease that cannot drink.

Normally, some people many people may that many people can, but there are many people who cannot so well and need to understand that they know that they are different from other people and are sick and they should seek help and that is why I always stay how long you were in that way by the place where you have just been a bad person 20 years more than probably all my career and more than 16 out And I put my hand in my heart and honestly I think I was going home well and soon as night continued and took that first drink and the saying is too much drink and that Sink is not enough.

You know that you are thinking that you are a bad person, you are not a good person and then you stop and stop and do well again and you are a good person who knows why you are not picking up that first drink because if you do not pick up that first drink or you have that first bet or that first drug, it is not going to be that you are going to take a bet or do not go to the head, which will take a bet. Then you enter that addiction, you begin to hurt people, you go back to you, I hate myself, it is where I stay open now I only tell people that you are a sick person who needs to be fine, it is not a bad person who tries to be good, you are not a good person who only needs you Bet on faith faith, faith is the one that is addicted to what is the most.

The rumor of the bet is the emotion, then as soon as that bet ends, a compulsive game will look for the next bet, no matter what does not matter what happens, if you do not have money to have the next bet if you have not obtained the money you know you cannot concentrate? To a stage in which you lose when everything has gone after a certain amount of time you take, I do not have to do that again when you have exhausted yourself, yes, it is strange, but you do not have that feeling when you are earning so much money that you think you only take the money that you do not take the money you do not take, you know that compulsive players want the game to remain.

£ 7,000 still compulsive player I have to recover those £ 3,000 back well and that £ 3,000 could cost me £ 50,000 to return, you know that the justification that you know is constantly constantly to enhance the B and if I lose, I have to recover that and if I have to win that winning more than you just put the money and it is that you know it is a horrible disease and you want you to tend well? You on your own, do you want to know that you used to have arguments with my wife, so I would have a lot of money or be winning and we used to have an apartment just around the corner that we were trying to sell, but we had to move to a house literally for the Cúz block, we had an apartment of a living room on a Sunday?

I go, that's all, I'm out, I take the iPad, I'm going around the corner to the floor that I am going to get my vodka or beer or whatever, and I would sit in that apartment for four or five days just pun P punc four or five days days days and you couldn't sleep, you couldn't sleep, I wouldn't eat you, you won't eat. It comes slowly and you know with the game that I have never seen something like that, you are here, you are winning everything that is fine, yes, and I literally like and you are like where it has left, I would not want to play anyone, it is the worst adaptation in the world is so silent that you know how you know that I have not lost £ 1,000 in the car since I come here, yes, well, you can turn around, you do not have 100 thousand.

Silence, it is easy to hide, it is as if you go out to have a drink that you return home, you go to your wife, oh yes, I went out here and invented a lie within a month that you forgot that well and will surprise you yes, yes, my wife will go, then a month oh you were in the sound, so the other week, no, oh, oh, you said that if you were playing, yes, I do not tell you to see you Or her partner to her husband, her boyfriend, her girlfriend, because her addiction, will leave him, leave him and then you know why you always think well if I go and say that I have lost all this money, what you are going to say is that I leave you now, so then you chase and pursue more money that I tell you before you were so far and that people commit you to more people.

Compulsive compulsive addiction, you know what can you, how much can you put your nose? How much can you drink? You can drink in a 100%day, while I could lose every penny that I have in one day if you want to easily and lend more and more and simply keep lending and the more you lose, the more your bets are that you know that I never bought anything with my money, I never earned a lot of money and that I had the money there and could pay each time. deadlines and then I would win and I think OH just take the money that you can return to everyone, you have a life of Riley or you know a peaceful life only peaceful and 20 minutes later, I am sitting there thinking what I have done that I have lost it, I just lost?

I want to say that I did not have to steal, thank God, you know that I borrowed, they don't misunderstand me. PERFORMED TO THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE SO MUCH AND I, DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE CALLING YOUR DIGNITY Your self -esteem simply go out the window you are ringing people who know you have more money than them and give you money? And and it is not good for you, you know in the addiction that you know that all you want is that the money only wants the money to get the money that is committed, plays it when you go out of it, I look back in my life now.

I think sad, sad, how could I do that? I am a wood man who knows that I will omit myself to Lger we are going to try the wine, it is not better that I own, it is a constant that the aggression worsens and worse at the end, there is no doubt that you know that you know that I have never met anyone com at a ga meeting, which is a player and honorman meeting and could not stop winning, I cannot stop winning. You are a business owner marketing entrepreneur, you are publishing online ads and want significantly better results than my company is currently getting can help you only create campaigns to manage and optimize for our customers if you are interested.

There is a link in the video description below. Because I won everything as I said and played 700 games, so I kept fit, you know it was UH, but when I stopped drinking and went into treatment and stopped playing, I kept the record of the most successful amount of more successful games of the games in the arsenal until at the beginning of this year he beat Sacka, so if you see yourself, you do not stop showing you a weekend and you do not know that you do not know that you do not make you wrong. You know that my job was to make things happen in a football field, deposited that other people made their work in what were good, so you know that that is why I probably stay fit, but it was a functional functional functional compulsive jamble functional functional functional.

I know he had to get up before in the morning. I never woke up that my father was lying on the bed, you know he always got up to work, so it was one thing,But when you get old and the drink became increasingly when I finished playing. I am open and honest because I am here for a reason why you know I am, you know that you are sitting in crack houses, you know fortunate to play football, there were no telephone cameras in them days, yes, yes, you know that people walked to the houses of crack, and two double shots and, as you knew, they knew yes, yes, but it cannot be here that you should be a good team, you know what you want to say, you know what you want to say?

Screen, you know that the ambulance, he says that I cannot believe that you are alive, it is impossible, but he said that you fell asleep because you fell asleep and that you were so relaxed that you have hit the window screen and come back and simply cut my entire head open. Life outside the field as if it weren't my last day, but you know I'm going to have fun and took it to the field. I want to have fun, I don't want to get bored in the football field. The fans who go know Wow, what happens, you know it is so, do you worry?

Do you worry about the consequences for long -term health for alcohol consumption and drugs and things like that? He gets the first of February and they go and crush it again, you know that it is not good for the body, in my opinion, I think you deliver it, it gets used to something What do you think do you know? They get up in January to January, they get up in the morning are brighter, they are light that they enjoy, so, I am not a great lover of the dry January, if I am being honest, their addictions, do you think there is a genetic component if there are people in their family that yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, my father was a player?

Because my dad would never know that he didn't bet to the extent that I played well, yes, do you know what I mean? And you know, so I don't know, I don't know my brother play, but he doesn't like his control betting game, you know he is playing what he can allow you to lose, do not go to shark sharks or give me the money, so you don't know that you never have to do with the situation of people who never give me problems with the situation of the people. Let's say the game game is forever, it's fine, some people can normally bet, yes, you know, if you're fun, you know why there are other countries that also have much larger restrictions, are they not especially?

Well, just do, do you know what I mean? Gambleler Okay You know more you know a Lot of their money comes from that but cuz you know the rules a Lot of People Can't Can't Get Bets On But The Werry looking for the alcohol okay the drinking adverts you know if you watch them they're not for the alcohol My wife drank, you know that my wife has two glasses of wine and she will stop and I am so difficult to see that I drink you no, no, no, I don't know, you know that it gives me, I know I can't do it.

Sitting on hairdressers for a week at the end of the week, you take a haircut, it is the same with a drink if you are going to sit drinking for a week, you know that you are sitting around for a reason and a reason to drink yes, usually, a very happy day, it is always always, yes, it is the norm, it must be so difficult if you are addicted to that because it is only that I have pressure. I do not drink, I all know myself, I know I don't drink, but there are still times when people, oh continue, you know that I spent so that people will be honest.

It is not necessary, I mean that it was as if not, you know that it made no sense to say to sit in an air hall, is it

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the day and is the same? Times better today than it was when I was sitting there many addicts that I have heard one of the ways in which they manage well, basically they accept that they have an addictive personality and that they need to be addicted to something that is positive, since it is something positive, since sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes I know? Oh Freddy Come on You Do Better Than That He's I Just Turned Nine You Know But The My Addiction That's Not That's Not Him That's Not His Addiction So You Know That Was One Of The Things I have to Really Pull In You Know and I do now I have now i think i was a bit you know oh you drop to do well This week drop to do well it's a long journey it's a long journey you know i just let him go out and enjoy it and let Him play if he Fortunate, so yes, I am the problem, which is the good thing that I am aware of my actions, which is something that was not years ago, I did not know that I like a cigar that I liked a cigar that I have not smoked, but I do not like a cigar that I like that I like it, that I did not like that I liked that I liked the cigarette that I liked that What I like, what I like.

In what 1994 26 25 years of age who was the madness in which he was thinking that Crack was that he was worse returning to that kind of time, do you think they knew that some of them maybe? I heard a figure a figure associated with your game that you had lost more than 7 million is that it is true, yes, you know that it is not money, it is not the money you look at, now it wasted time, that is what bothers you the most. Oh, we know that if you are going to work, you can earn money, since I have been a millionaire two or three times and I wanted you to hold on to them, so I know you don't know the money, but when you know that when I look back, I don't see my time, I don't see it time, don't do it.

I play, you are never at the time you, you are always in another place, you are always thinking about what I am going to do, what I did yesterday? When I'm going to get money or when I'm going to do this when I go for a drink. The things that do not return them, you can get the money that I am not going to recover 7 million pounds, but I gave myself that I have let that go, but I will not receive time and I believe the people in the world are the people who light at the time it does not matter how much money you would get if you do not live at the time you do not have a penny that you do not have a penny that you know and another thing is that I keep it in the day, I That I get up in the morning, I can't drink a drug so that someone would tell me that I never do it again, that is what is beyond.

That is the first thing I'm going to do, yes, yes, I drink a drink. Output is fine, what departure is out there? I have nothing to live in a rented house, do you know what I mean that I am not a millionaire? I have to work if Sky got rid of me tomorrow. I have to work, you know what I mean, so you know, but at the end of the day I am much happier today than it was when I was winning 35 grandchildren a week, yes, you are there and it is one of the things I was thinking of literally driving about here in a modern society?

The advisor could advise to put money in the stock market or something, how to deal with things in that line how to possess a pension will be investments? You know that I look at the time I would have kissed, I would have kissed my feet when they give me the money well, but when I look back now at 55 years and I'm fine, I think what was I thinking why you are giving a compulsive player who 'has been in the treatment of a game is a pension well? I can, but no, no, I do not buy raffle tickets if I go to dinner, I will give it the 20, but I do not want the raffle tickets, that it is a trigger, yes, it is fine, um obviously, since there is potentially a genetic element that I think you have to be fine, but you know that if you saw you have a bet or something, what could not do?

Keep going with him, you know that the youngest now, while I stayed well, I know you know that he has seen me now that he has seen what he has done to me, really? Do you know that he has seen that he has seen the arguments he has seen his man being, since you know that they hurt the constant times that the game? I have used it and I can tell you the story and tell you, but you know that it is all how happy it is, I want to say that it is an internal job, this is an internal work that you know that you bet for a reason to get out of the way you felt, what seems to be an anxiety for you, yes, do you know that I understood a betting store and thought I was going to a space?

I argue, you know, you know that I recover now for me and I know that it may sound selfish and not do it for my wife and children, but I have to do it for me every time I have done it for other people and it has not worked. You must be fine, you must be aware, and that is why you know if I went and had an argument with my wife today, do you know that when I got home we had an argument and that I go out the house? Betting that you know, but you leave a grenade behind you, okay, you ruin the lives of people, hurt the people you love and that they do not get as well as you do if you understand that you know that you do not have the tools that I have to let go and move on with my life, sometimes, that is not the same with my wife, they do not feel in conflict.

Sky, you know what I work for Sky, don't you know years ago? I was making Sky Bet ads. You know what it was and you know, but today I am not well, you know that you know, so, I don't see myself, I don't see that situation, I mean, why should I cut my nose so that my face? You would not prohibit the game, but would you like to see the changes that were made to the fact that it is obviously, when you are watching football, there are ads all the time for betting companies and things in that line that you think there should be more regulation about that?

It is not compulsive that it is compulsive, so you know that my choice turns the TV and makes a cup of coffee or a correct drink, my choice, I think that at 8:00 in the morning listening to the radio that sits in the car and a game ads And there is when you get caught, you know that sometimes it is too much. To continue a lot and the people who know that you get the two or three people who kill her, do not even know and think, oh my God, which is not good, you know, and I would hurt me, aren't I going to lie?

You know that it is the same with a game ads in Telly's TV change, yes, it's fine, you can choose not to be able to. Only more public because we can know the sports opportunity, I think that the last time I heard that Sporting Chance was 7. The interior on your own for 10 months to try to stop and stop well, since you said just before knowing that Ivan Tony has a betting company in his shirt that he, that he knows that he has done things that would have done things that would have done things that I, I am sure I would be with his contract, which could be wrong.

So how do you dare and ban it for 10 months? If they were in heroine, they would have been playing football now, yes, because they have entered a treatments center would have cleaned, you know they would have understood that they are going, Oh, it is taking drugs Oh, you know that it is an addiction, you know that they underestimate the game yet, I think it is still a stigma that you know that people will stop gamy, I will not need to do it a little. That you get diarrhea, try that with the power of Willp, and it is the same with the same with this, what I know had been with the drug drug.

You know that they continued to try drugs and then they went well, you can play again, now, you know, and it would have been the same if they were in cocaine crack or know what they would have gone to a center are rich people, yes, you do not know that there is no lack of respect here, but if you are playing for the Rochdale Soccer Club now and you know that you are not in much money, many of these players play in the lowest divisions. Money or money rental this month get into trouble, how can they leave and say that I need help?

I am a compulsive player, my life is an absolute disaster, how can I leave because what will happen? Know that they have not thought about this, they should have had a good time to wait there for a minute that you know that we take them out, let's get out of society, talk that they talk to people and open and do not do it, and how people will help people in the lower leagues. it has't been good it's not good What they've done do you Think there are probablay many more players we don ~ Know they've gone in they've gone in on the chance probabling their clubs have said they're insuld and they're in a there and it's all top secret right okay but it's top secret so you knows He is helping, yes, at least, when I do, people are going well if they can do it, I can do it.

We are going to recover, obviously, there are cases in whichForget what people did at the beginning of the season, if you have a great beginning of the year or a great beginning of the season and you are not excellent at the end, but the person in the end knows what to say in football in football, do you know in football? Well, it was not him because you only remember the last 20 minutes that remember the first 35 minutes of a football match, yes, and it is a bit like these, it is as if the PFA player of you know the PFA team of the year or the player of the year in the PFA, you know that you get your shape and it is fine.

Bayern Munich and wins the euros that has won it, yes, yes, he has won it, even if he does not really have a goal, but he is involved, he will win it, so it is, no, you do not know that I do not see the 100% PSG not win the Champions League, but if they won and won the euros because it is Mbappe, yes, what will win, so you know that Har Kane would probably say because I think we will win the euro. Annored at Real Madrid, you know that I think there are three or four games now and if he was five other games, it would not surprise you because it is not a goal, you know that he is not and attacking, it is not a Frank Lampard on the US.

He knows that his size is Atlético, he has good feet, it is fast, he can score a goal that you have to do it for longevity that you have to do it for how long Wayne Rooney did it for people so that you know that they will be how strange it is the best thing that is only 20. He is going to Dortmund and they leave, he will play, yes, anywhere else where they left, we are not sure to be well for him Difficult, you know if you would have said if you had sat here last year, we will say that Rashford could be one of the best players to play in England all the time, but today, as we really sat down, so you know, so you know, so you will be a time that is the next 10 of the 10 years.

Last four or five games, I don't think it's much if yes, so people are going to stop it, for what they are playing, now if you do, since you do, since it will, since it will do it, since it will. Season If we have said that Rashford could be one of the best players to play for England this year, we would not say no, but my father is a man's fan and I think he feels frustrated with Marcus rash more than any other player and what you think of him, it seems that he seems to be a world player and then, alone, what I know I don't know what I don't know, but I don't know, but I don't know, but I don't know, but I don't know, I don't know what I don't know.

In football, you know what I learned throughout my career if there is something you could do as a football with the confidence that it is something massive that I know that people could be, you know that fans can sit there and go, do you know that you are sure you get 200 big 200s per week? He becomes that it is simple when you enter the ball on the left and you only have the right to beat and you can put it inside, bend in the corner or you know that it shows you in the line that crosses it now, suddenly, suddenly they are getting two players against him if he cuts inside the defenders who expect it, half of the center now has to be brilliant and intelligent enough to make the solution look at me to look at a situation of Hog.

You do not know that Hland appears and can play two and only to think about the defenders again, so, but he always plays, he has a reputation that he always plays, since it is a threat, it is a pleasant one will always be in the squad you know after this podcast that could get 10 in 10, yes, and I know that I would not surprise me or surprise you, yes, thank you very much, thank you so, thank you, thank you so, thank you, thank you so, thank you, thank you so, thank you so, thank you so, thank you so, thank you so, thank you, thank you so much Obviously, everyone knows that you are in heaven, but anywhere you want to send people in another way?

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