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BLUETIT
Not squeaky clean though, is he !!!
Having retired from English league football aged 27 due to injury, for several years in the 1990s Brazil ran the Black Adder pub in Ipswich.[15] This business venture failed and Brazil was declared bankrupt.[15]
A fan of horse racing, in 2003 he formed the Alan Brazil Racing Club based at Newmarket near to his home in Suffolk.[16] In 2006 Brazil published a book co-written with Mike Parry called There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil.[17] This was followed in 2007 by Both Barrels from Brazil: My War Against the Numpties, again co-written with Parry.[18]
In September 2007, Brazil was arrested near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk on suspicion of drink-driving.[19] He was convicted, banned from driving for 20 months, and given a £750 fine, as well as being ordered to pay £450 compensation to the court.[20]
In 2011, Brazil brought out a range of bar nuts named 'Alan Brazil's Nuts', a play on Brazil nuts. The packages have barcodes readable by smartphones for accessing Talksport-related media. The nuts are produced at an Intersnack factory in Haverhill, Suffolk, with profits going to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. Robson, who died from cancer in 2009, was Brazil's manager at Ipswich. The range of salted and dry roasted peanuts was due to be extende