



Wayne Rooney has been caught on camera having a sneaky fag, something which Alex Ferguson will frown upon, no doubt. Equally David James used to be a secret smoker a few years ago and may well still be.





Most of the French/Spanish based players who grow up in a smoking culture like a cigarette but they just have to be a little more circumspect when cameras are about. Roberto di Matteo, admittedly an ex-player, is a big smoker and when he was manager of West Brom, he would struggle to find somewhere that was not a non-smoking part of The Hawthorns. He usually succeeded.





Another ex-player, now a manager, who smokes is Martin Jol. Earlier this season there were suggestions that he had accidentally set off the fire alarm at - ironically - West Brom by lighting up before the game but this was vehemently denied by Fulham.





I won't give his identity away but several years ago a few journalists and a few players were in a karaoke bar for a leaving party and one player stood up to sing with cigarette in one hand and pint in the other. He put down his pint to pick up the microphone but the fag stayed glued to his fingers!

Tugay's smoking habits were a source of great irritation to Robbie Savage. The pair used to drive to training together when they were at Blackburn and Savage joked in his autobiography that Tugay would have about five cigarettes in his mouth at the same time.