The nook flag shows the Arsenal brand throughout a UEFA Champions League match. (Photograph by Mike Hewitt/Getty Pictures)
Former Arsenal participant Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been jailed for 4 years after making an attempt to smuggle £600,000 of hashish into the UK.
In accordance with a report from The Telegraph, the previous Arsenal prodigy was arrested in September when he was discovered carrying 60 kg of hashish by the border power officers.
The participant tricked his girlfriend into carrying medicine
Together with Emmanuel-Thomas, his girlfriend, Yasmin Piotrowska, was caught by the border power officers as effectively. The report claims that the 34-year-old had tricked his girlfriend and her buddy Rosie Rowland into carrying the suitcases vacuum filled with hashish.
The ladies have each walked free as they had been instructed that they had been carrying gold, however the former Arsenal prodigy will now spend 4 years in jail. The 34-year-old was extremely rated by former Arsenal supervisor and membership legend Arsene Wenger. He was thought to be one of many best younger abilities on the membership throughout that point, and he was a key participant for Arsenal once they gained the FA Youth Cup in 2009.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was an enormous expertise
Wenger described the participant as an enormous expertise and somebody with excellent qualities. Nonetheless, he by no means fairly managed to fulfil his potential, and the importation cost has left him disgraced as a former skilled footballer.
“He has the construct you dream to have,” Wenger as soon as stated. “When his health is correct, Jay will likely be not solely a great participant, however an ideal participant. One factor is for certain – he can rating objectives. That could be a large expertise you can’t give to folks. His proper foot, his left foot, he’s unbelievable in entrance of aim.”
After leaving Arsenal, the participant ended up at Ipswich City after which Bristol Metropolis. Emmanuel-Thomas has additionally performed for golf equipment like Queens Park Rangers, Milton Keynes Dons, Gillingham, Rayong, Livingston, Aberdeen, Jamshedpur in India and Kidderminster Harriers.
The participant joined Greenock Morton in July final 12 months, however his skilled footballing profession appears all however over now.
