West Ham United striker Teddy Sheringham has expressed his fears about
gambling. Speaking in London, Sheringham said that this addiction is
becoming more of a danger for younger players starting out in football. He
sited the reasons for this problem being the amount of leisure time that
players had added to the amount of money that they have available for
gambling. He is very much of the opinion that players nowadays are not as
disciplined as they ought to be and perhaps didn’t focus as much as they
ought to on becoming true professional footballers. Sheringham himself is an
avid poker player, but said that his main focus was always on his football.