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John Hartson has announced his retirement from football at the age of 32. He has been without a club since West Brom terminated his contract and as no other clubs have come in for him it makes sense that he has chosen now to hang up his boots. He has explained his decision by saying he has lost the desire to keep fit.

“I’m going to miss that competitive edge. That was my weekend, letting off steam and terrorising centre-halves.

“But I’m not going to miss training though. To be honest I’d lost my desire to get back into the West Brom side.”

Sounds lazy to me. I saw Hartson in action earlier in the season when he was on loan at Norwich and he did look very out of shape. His presence did lift the team and he had a couple of good chances but overall he looked slow and had certainly put on a few pounds since his Arsenal days.

“I have been fighting my weight for 12 years. I can’t have a burger without putting on half a stone.”

I may be no expert but you could just not eat burgers or any fatty foods. You are, after all, a professional athlete and should be watching your diet. Now Hartson can eat as many Big Macs or Whoppers as he likes and die a happy fat man in his bed with hidden sandwiches and chicken legs under his folds of flab. Okay I’m being mean. Good luck to Hartson in whatever he decides to do. Maybe he will still be involved with a football at a later date, maybe a pundit or a commentator. I doubt he will decide to coach or go into management but one thing for sure is that he should treat himself to a long holiday and let the pounds burn off in the sun.

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