Jarballs Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 2 hours ago, killiefan27 said: Think it was The Sun after the smoking ban came in? Tried googling it but nothing much came up apart from someone referencing it on some defunct forum, claiming it said he had "117 Fags & 7 Lucozades" one day! Aye, that sounds about right. Credit where it's due, you have to hand it to the guy for being able to make the average Scottish football fan think "Christ, that is not a healthy diet!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Doesn't say much for the Scottish footballing authorities when one crook/nutter's hubris can cause such an utter mess. David Murray should be ashamed of himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Mileson still has an annual cup competition played in his memory for clubs in the Northern League. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackbirdonthewire Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Smoking over a hundred fags a day and drinking litres of Lucozade. That really is living the dream to be fair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Makes you wonder why he died prematurely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Did Brooks Mileson not have a short-lived (take that however way you wish) column in the Daily Record at one point? I seem to recall it was a "Day in the Life" thing focused primarily on the 80+ cigarettes and numberless bottles of Lucozade he went through on a daily basis. I also remember him being weirdly proud that it was all he ever consumed for sustenance. Someone please tell me that I haven't just imagined this Was it not on the run up to the final? Had a daily tally of how much cigerettes and lucozades he was consuming, I definitely remember that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 I had a similar diet when I worked nightshifts. Can't say it did me any harm*. *I was fat as f**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 13 hours ago, Blackbirdonthewire said: Smoking over a hundred fags a day and drinking litres of Lucozade. That really is living the dream to be fair. Was he already on the way out at that stage? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarballs Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 15 hours ago, Grant228 said: Was it not on the run up to the final? Had a daily tally of how much cigerettes and lucozades he was consuming, I definitely remember that. Yeah, that's the one! If he was still on the go Kris Boyd and Barry Ferguson would probably be tipping him for the Rangers' dietician/fitness coach position 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Smoking 100 cigarettes a day is hugely impressive.Assuming you are awake between 7am and 11pm that’s smoking a cigarette every ten minutes or so, maybe a little less. But say you spend an hour a day eating (15 mins for breakfast and lunch, 30for dinner) then you re going to have to smoke even more. Assuming you spend time in public places where you can’t smoke (offices, cafes, restaurants etc) that would drive the number even higher. Then you consider how long it takes to smoke a cigarette -he’d basically have to be smoking all the time when he wasn’t eating or otherwise unable to smoke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) 23 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Smoking 100 cigarettes a day is hugely impressive. Assuming you are awake between 7am and 11pm that’s smoking a cigarette every ten minutes or so, maybe a little less. But say you spend an hour a day eating (15 mins for breakfast and lunch, 30for dinner) then you re going to have to smoke even more. Assuming you spend time in public places where you can’t smoke (offices, cafes, restaurants etc) that would drive the number even higher. Then you consider how long it takes to smoke a cigarette -he’d basically have to be smoking all the time when he wasn’t eating or otherwise unable to smoke. He didn't eat and smoking ban in public wasn't in place or strictly enforced when he was around. Edited November 24, 2017 by Sergeant Wilson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 I bet he fucking stank 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 I bet he fucking stank He certainly will now 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 He didn't eat and smoking ban in public wasn't in place or strictly enforced when he was around. Aye, that’s a fair point. He was also the boss of his work so could just puff away without anyone complaining. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I was too young to really know too much about Gretna’s sudden rise up the leagues, and we were never in the same league as them (only played them once in a League Cup game or something, on a Tuesday night, down in Gretna). I do remember them being in the SPL though, and that they had just appeared out of nowhere over the last couple of years, with absolutely no idea about any of the stuff (some hilarious, some infuriating) that had taken place in the build-up to their success. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread though, and although a lot of it flew way over my head at the time, for some reason I remember the whole fags and coffee (or at least I thought it was coffee, sounds like it was Lucozade) every morning, in fact it’s still the first thing my brother remembers when Gretna are mentioned. Mileson sounded like both a fantasist and a complete fud of the highest order. I’m glad the whole thing ended as fucking humiliatingly as it did for them. f**k them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 (edited) I'm almost certain I can remember a collective wankfest taking place on Sportscene or whatever it was at the time, from which i have vivid meories of Pat Nevin lauding the business acumen of Mileson investing so heavily since there was a big potential catchment area in Carlisle that Gretna could seek to attract. I mean i normally like Nevin as a pundit but he was a wee bit off on that one... Edited November 28, 2017 by Thistle_do_nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 How many Gretna 'fans' were at the Scottish Cup final in 2006? A couple of reports say the attendance was 51,000 but no mention of the crowd split. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 How many Gretna 'fans' were at the Scottish Cup final in 2006? A couple of reports say the attendance was 51,000 but no mention of the crowd split. Was around 10,000, Hearts sold nearly 33,000 and the rest was suits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 13 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Was around 10,000, Hearts sold nearly 33,000 and the rest was suits. Fucking mental when you look at their league attendances. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Fucking mental when you look at their league attendances. QOS took the same to theirs, no idea how many were neutrals though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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