News Forum - High stakes: British soccer star’s £600k cannabis own goal

[Thaiger]

Professional footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in a sensational attempt to smuggle £600,000 worth of cannabis through Stansted Airport. The 33 year old striker, currently playing for Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton, was nabbed by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers at dawn yesterday, September 18, in Gourock, Inverclyde. The ex-Livingston, Aberdeen, and Arsenal academy … …

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[NonThaiKiwi]

So how did this idiot get it onto the plane from Thailand? 

What a muppet. 

[BigHewer]

Beside the point, but ‘star’ is a stretch. Over the hill and playing at the bottom of the Scottish Championship (2nd tier in Scotland). So mid-table in the Conference League in England perhaps. 

I make 100 teams in England and 15 in Scotland clearly better than his. 10 to 15 ‘British’ players per squad better than him… plus the lads plying their trade abroad. There’d be 1000 players ahead of him (or more).

In his prime with Bristol City 10 years ago, he *might* have scraped into the top 100. Not a star. But yeah, still a muppet

[Fanta]

11 hours ago, NonThaiKiwi said:

So how did this idiot get it onto the plane from Thailand? 

What a muppet. 

The 2 women were mules and he was the financier.