Rooney...Smokes!?

[leggadon]

i used to manage a bar in Wilmslow back when Dickov played. He used to come in quite a bit. Chain smoker! hard to believe watching him run around like a headless chicken week in week out.

 

[Petetheblu]

Steve Coppell smokes and it's not done him any harm!!! :0

 

[mcfcdave]

i remember when pearce was in charge and we had a player on trial from reggina and on his first day he was seen comming out of his car smoking and city turned him away straight away.

 

[hmblue]

Bill Shankly went to Bobby Charlton`s house on the morning of a rags v Liverpool match for a chat about the game. Bobby opened the door with a fag in his mouth and Bill went crazy at him for smoking on the day of an important match.
True Story.

 

[bluealf]

Bill Shankly went to Bobby Charlton`s house on the morning of a rags v Liverpool match for a chat about the game. Bobby opened the door with a fag in his mouth and Bill went crazy at him for smoking on the day of an important match.
True Story.

Why ?

 

[elliottrobo]

my mate smokes you know

 

[levets]

Bill Shankly went to Bobby Charlton`s house on the morning of a rags v Liverpool match for a chat about the game. Bobby opened the door with a fag in his mouth and Bill went crazy at him for smoking on the day of an important match.
True Story.

Why ?

LOL... Think he means Matt Busby?

 

[buzzer1]

'kin hell, 60 a day? sign him up G.

he must have cut down now a days...marlboro light??

ewwwwwwwww

-- Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:41 pm --

macheda

Bobby Charlton
England's record goalscorer puffed away on a cigarette at half-time in the World Cup final. His brother Jack and striker Jimmy Greaves were also smokers while 1966 captain Bobby Moore fronted an ad campaign to drop in at your local pub.
And England still wonder why they haven't won the tournament since. Someone tell Wayne Rooney to smuggle his Bensons along with his flip-flops past Don Fabio pronto.

Johan Cruyff

The Dutch master was a 20-a-day man during his playing career and continued to light up on the Barca bench until he had a double heart bypass in 1991. After his surgery Cruyff literally kicked the habit for a TV anti-smoking campaign where he juggled a pack of ciggies with trademark skill.

Socrates
A star performer in Brazil's brilliant 1982 side, the bearded ace puffed his way through two packs a day and continued to light up after quitting the game. Now a medical doctor and member of the Workers' Party he suggested in a masters thesis that football should be reduced to nine a side to improve skill levels. In other words, so Brazil would win all the time.

Gianluca Vialli
If you grow up in a 60-room 15th century castle you feel like you can get away with pretty much anything. Vialli famously lit up on the bench after being substituted during Italia '90 and kept smoking away when he managed Chelsea at the start of decade. Quite how he got past the ID checks wearing his schoolboy jumper is anybody's guess.

Robert Prosinecki

Talented beyond doubt, he played for Barcelona and Real Madrid while concealing a habit rumored to be 50-a-day at its peak. Starred at France '98 alongside another smoker Slaven Bilic, he cut to 20 a day when he joined Portsmouth in 2001.
Was all set to form a smoking superteam with Paul Merson before Harry Redknapp perhaps wisely sold him after one season.

Preben Elkjaer
The great Dane sparkled during Mexico '86 and remains an icon in Verona where he played a key role in their only Scudetto title. Amazed coaches with his fitness levels while continuing to smoke at half-time and according to Danish legend, smoked during a penalty shoot out, flicking his fag away just before burying his spot kick home.

Zinedine Zidane

After making a fool of Ronaldinho during Germany '06 the hero in Les Bleus' 1998 World Cup glory prepared for France's semi-final with Portugal by puffing on a ciggie. Perhaps the nicotine had caused amnesia as Zizou had fronted an anti-smoking campaign four years earlier. Merde!

Osvaldo Ardiles
Inspired by their chain-smoking manager César Luis Menotti, Ardiles was a solid 40-a-day man during the Argentineans' home triumph in 1978. At least that's according to his former Spurs team-mate Glenn Hoddle, who revealed this nugget when defending Paul Gascoigne's smoking habit prior to France '98.
"It didn't bother Ossie and it doesn't bother me," said the then coach.

Trifon Ivanov
Bulgaria's hairy defender loved a Davidoff before kick-off, half-time and, er, anytime at all. The dead ball specialist wasn't the only member of Bulgaria's squad who enjoyed the good life as the team were spotted in public drinking and smoking in their run to the semi-finals at USA '94.
After being beaten by Italy in the semi-finals the Bulgarians lost interest and got trashed off the pitch before doing the same on it against Sweden in the third place play off.

Fabien Barthez

Les Blues' victorious squad from 1998 boasted at least three smokers with Zidane, Franck Lebeouf and Fabien Barthez between the sticks.
Enraged Southampton's then-manager Gordon Strachan by leaving several cigarette butts stubbed out in the health conscious manager's office after he was taken off injured while playing for Manchester United in 2003. After making the discovery Strachan quipped the balded one must have been taken off for a smoker's cough!
Barthez was recently quoted as charging €70 a minute for his goalkeeping coaching services which should pay for his habit quite nicely. Cough, cough...

berbaflop

bilic

Nice work mate, your to damn good.

 

[Jnr Kisby]

I used to play footy with a lad who had a lit cig behind his ear all game, smoked during the game, it seemed funny at the time. Bit sad really