Adrian Chiles On BBC 2 Last Night

[the other bob wilson]

I've been virtually tea total for about six or seven years now (five pints a year at the most) after drinking to levels which, if not in the Chiles class, were still double and more the old weekly limit of twenty one units for nearly forty years. I was gradually dropping my drinking levels down the years to a stage where I was probably drinking less than half of what I did in my twenties and early thirties, but it was still too much and I think it was only me being on Warfarin which led to me stopping - I think I still would have been binge drinking on Saturday nights if it wasn't for that. The only time I miss the booze is at Christmas when i have a wish to go out and get absolutely arse holed - just the once would do and the truth is that, having been all but off the stuff for all of this time, it would probably only take four or five pints for that to happen!

[Harry Monk]

I've cut down my drinking drastically since moving back from London. I used to drink everyday, always drank about 6 or 7 pints a day after work, even when we finished at 2am, we'd have a tame pub that would open up for us near our office. If I was off on a Saturday it would be drinking from around 8am on the way to City games, and finishing around midnight. We even used to go to the "early houses" at Smithfield Market (pubs that opened at 5am to cater for the market workers) after our night shifts.

My blood pressure was through the roof and I was on 5mg a day of blood pressure tablets. Since coming here, my drinking is limited to match days only, with the odd Friday club drink for an hour or two. I think the change of job, the reduction in drinking getting a proper night's sleep (well almost) and eating 3 meals a day has made a huge difference to my health. I'm now down to 1.25mg a day for blood pressure.

Could I gave up drinking? Probably. Do I want to? Not really, I enjoy the social side of it - I've rarely been a home drinker if at all.

[the other bob wilson]

I've cut down my drinking drastically since moving back from London. I used to drink everyday, always drank about 6 or 7 pints a day after work, even when we finished at 2am, we'd have a tame pub that would open up for us near our office. If I was off on a Saturday it would be drinking from around 8am on the way to City games, and finishing around midnight. We even used to go to the "early houses" at Smithfield Market (pubs that opened at 5am to cater for the market workers) after our night shifts.

My blood pressure was through the roof and I was on 5mg a day of blood pressure tablets. Since coming here, my drinking is limited to match days only, with the odd Friday club drink for an hour or two. I think the change of job, the reduction in drinking getting a proper night's sleep (well almost) and eating 3 meals a day has made a huge difference to my health. I'm now down to 1.25mg a day for blood pressure.

Could I gave up drinking? Probably. Do I want to? Not really, I enjoy the social side of it - I've rarely been a home drinker if at all.

Same here, pubs and clubs were a big part of the attraction for me - I barely ever drank at home and, I'm still not sure why, but I never drank before games. Adrian Chiles was pretty certain he wasn't an alcoholic - I knew I wasn't, because I could easily go days without touching alcohol, but I really did enjoy the whole pub thing.