How soccer makes players’ life amazing is known to everyone, perhaps, top soccer players enjoy being millionaires in no time on the peak of their careers. But there is another side of the story when a retired player or rather an unsuccessful player is forced to live as an ordinary man lacking any perk of being an ex-soccer player. Few days back, we heard an ex-Chelsea player pleaded to the court to excuse his eight thousand pounds fine imposed on him for his over speed driving, and now in an another incident, an ex-Everton striker Michael Branch is forced to live behind the bars without getting any discount of his ex status. Michael Branch is jailed for seven years on Thursday on charge of selling drugs. Actually, last 10th of July, he was caught with 1Kg cocaine at his home in Otterspool, and later during investigation, 34 years old himself accepted to deliver another 3kg of ban substances to another man inside a car parked in Liverpool. About his conviction in a drug case, Serious Organised Crime Agency’s spokesman said, “This was significant criminality committed by someone who would once have been viewed as a role model. The message here is that entering the illegal drugs trade is a route to prison, not to financial gain and a celebrity lifestyle.”
Michael Branch started his career through Everton sports academy during the 1996/97 and later joined Everton at the age of 18. His career could not grow as started, perhaps he was once labeled as Premier League’s brightest prospect, but unfortunately; he could not mark any impression neither in premier league nor at international level despite his association with many clubs, like Bradford City, Manchester City, Hull City, and Reading among others. This is not the first time, a soccer player has been sent to jail for drug trafficking, earlier too, Mark Ward was sentenced for eight years on similar charges, and perhaps there is a long list of players who, once in their lives, are charged with a serious offence like this one.
Anyways, he will have to face the results of his wrongdoings and for that he will have to serve his sentenced term in jail until he is acquitted by a higher court. The moral of the story, never live in the sky and always ready to face the real life’s challenges as Branch is doing right now