Before former Danish international Thomas Gravesen hung up his boots, he regularly used pre-season to play Call of Duty and was also known for cheating his teammates at the pool table.
There’s no denying that Gravesen, known more commonly as ‘Mad Dog’, had a successful footballing career.
He played in the Premier League for Everton, had a stint at Celtic, and managed to find the time to make 66 senior appearances for his national side.
He even played for La Liga giants Real Madrid, making a shock departure from the Toffees in 2005 and joining Los Blancos for a cool £2.5 million.
Advert
While he may have said farewell to football 15 years ago, the controversial midfielder has since been living the high life and has made sure his name hasn’t been out of the headlines for too long
Gravesen is reportedly worth a staggering £100 million, thanks to lucrative investments and lives in a gated community with his model girlfriend, Kamila Persse.
He’s also a regular at the Las Vegas pool tables — a place where he has put his honed gaming skills to good use.
Funnily enough, it’s recently been revealed that during his Celtic days, the now 47-year-old used to be a bit of a pool shark.
Appearing on the Undr The Cosh, former Hoops teammate Paul Caddis revealed some behind-the-scenes knowledge to the podcast hosts.
The 35-year-old said: “He used to bring us all in, all the young lads, ‘25 quid a head’. He would only play for money and we never knew why.
“He’d be like ‘everyone put their money in’. Used to be like £250 sat in there. ‘Two minutes lads’.
“And he’d run down the stairs at Celtic Park,” Caddis continued to reminisce.
“We’d be looking out the window, he’d open up his boot and he brought out this f***ing Ronnie O'Sullivan signed pool cue, snooker cue, screw it up.”
Caddis then laughed that the young members of the Hoops team would have to use “run of the mill horrendous” pool cues while Gravesen would swan around with “this shiny thing.”
“He just cleaned up, it was unbelievable,” he continued. “He used to take all the money and all. He was a f***ing multi-millionaire.
Elsewhere on the football podcast, Caddis revealed that instead of going away with the lads in the Scottish Premiership pre-season, the midfielder would return home to Denmark.
Caddis said: “He used to go back [to Denmark] in pre-season and stay at either his mum’s or his dad’s [house] in an attic probably about the f***ing size of this full table.
“In this little attic, a tiny room for six weeks, just used to sit on his PlayStation.
“He was like number one or number two for Call of Duty at one point,” he added.
Topics: Celtic, Premier League, Everton, Football
Ella Scott