Bristol City<\/a> and Ipswich Town, among other clubs – said: “Apologies to all affiliated with Greenock Morton.<\/p>\n“I let you guys down big time, hopefully you can forgive me. If the chance comes along I will right my wrongs but that will be up to the club, if it does not I wish you all the best and thank you.”<\/p>\n
He also posted a video of himself driving a Tesla, getting his hair braided and training on a football pitch – seemingly in London.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel-Thomas was arrested after a drugs haul was found at London Stansted Airport, Essex, on September 2<\/p>\n
His girlfriend, 33-year-old Yasmin Piotrowska, and her friend, Rosie Rowland, 29, had been recruited to travel to Thailand and smuggle the cannabis back.<\/p>\n
After landing in London on a flight from Bangkok, the pair were stopped and their suitcases searched – with officers finding a total of 60kg of cannabis in their four suitcases.<\/p>\n
Piotrowska, of Kensal Green, London, and Rowland, of Chelmsford, Essex, were also charged with smuggling cannabis.<\/p>\n
However, the women said they believed they were transporting gold, and they were acquitted.<\/p>\n
It is believed Thomas, of Gourock, near Glasgow, was the intermediary between suppliers in Thailand and drug pushers in the UK.<\/p>\n
The investigation revealed that with Thomas’s encouragement, the women had made a near identical trip \u2013 all expenses paid and a promised payment of \u00a32,500 – a few months earlier in July.<\/p>\n
On his way to custody after being arrested, he said unprompted: “I just feel sorry for the girls.”<\/p>\n
Emmaneul-Thomas was once a prodigy at Arsenal, and tipped for the top.<\/p>\n
But he slid down the footballing pyramid and was tempted into crime during “significant financial hard times” when out of contract, his barrister said during sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“If the chance comes along I will right my wrongs” Emma Slee and Jonathan Coles 20:31, 16 Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,2686,748,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114866065475580668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jay Emmanuel-Thomas previously played for Aberdeen(Image: PA Archive\/PA Images)<\/p>\n