Arsenal legend Ian Wright has admitted drugs almost killed his career. The former Gunners striker was smoking marijuana while progressing at Crystal Palace, prior to his Highbury days. But a close call with testers after a game against West Brom at the age of 21 made him change his ways. “It’s the first time I’d ever seen them and I panicked inside – I’ve been smoking cannabis, less than 24 hours earlier, and if that test comes back positive that’s it. It is literally all over for me,” Wright wrote in a column for The Sun. Wright escaped the test as his number was not called out, and he added: “From that day to this I never smoked a spliff...
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