Well-liked soccer presenter Jim White has celebrated being 14 years sober in an emotional publish on social media.
The previous Sky Sports activities Information host, who now works as a radio presenter on talkSPORT, has beforehand opened up on his struggles with controlling his ingesting habits.
However now, the Glaswegian has cheerfully taken to social media to disclose he’s 14 years sober — and inspired others to contemplate doing the identical.
‘Hello everybody! I’m precisely 14 years sober immediately and wish to lengthen my congrats to these reaching one thing related,’ White posted to X on Tuesday.
‘To these on the identical path, love and power. To these making an attempt to get there, I’m ready to welcome you.’
White, 68, accompanied the publish with an image of him smiling and looking out nicely within the talkSPORT studio.
Well-liked soccer presenter Jim White revealed he’s 14 years sober in an emotional publish on X
The now talkSPORT radio host (proper), pictured left throughout his time at Sky Sports activities, vowed to ‘welcome’ others who’re contemplating going sober in his celebratory publish on social media
White has defined how his shut pal Graeme Souness (above) as soon as instructed him to stop ingesting, though it took some time for him to heed the Liverpool legend’s recommendation
It was throughout his time at Sky Sports activities that White grappled with alcohol probably the most, because the Scot defined on a podcast look earlier this 12 months.
White defined how his shut pal Graeme Souness as soon as instructed him to stop ingesting, though it took some time for him to heed the Liverpool legend’s recommendation.
‘It was fairly merely, I might get pleasure from a drink an excessive amount of,’ he disclosed on the Spooning with Mark Wogan podcast.
‘As you understand, all the pieces I used to do after I labored in tv, actually at Sky, was stay. Every part I do on the radio immediately is stay.
‘Recovering grew to become a little bit of an onerous job. I used to be spending an excessive amount of time in a bar speaking with individuals and giving them an excessive amount of of my very own time, and considering I used to be extra necessary than I truly was, and not likely getting a grip on the place I used to be at that individual time in my life.
‘So I made a decision I am ingesting an excessive amount of, it was hinted to me, “Possibly you wish to minimize down, possibly higher than that, you wish to stop”.
‘[Graeme] Souness mentioned to me years in the past when he was managing Benfica, “One factor I have been listening to about you is that you simply’re possibly ingesting an excessive amount of Jim.” That was about six or seven years earlier than I finished, and I used to be like, “Actually, Graeme, thanks for that”, and went proper over my head and carried on.
‘However I carried on, and it was a silly factor to do, and it grew to become obvious. I wasn’t recovering from a hangover in addition to I ought to have been, I used to be sometimes wanting a bit tough on TV.
It was throughout his time at Sky Sports activities that White grappled with alcohol probably the most, he has revealed
‘I wasn’t performing in addition to I ought to and I used to be letting the viewers down. I used to be letting individuals near me down, members of the family down however letting myself down.’
White joined Sky Sports activities in 1998 and was finest recognized for his spectacular round the clock protection of switch deadline day twice a 12 months. He left the community in 2021.
