Meth-smoking football coach who blew $2.1M on Bitcoin: ‘I’m still a believer’

Meth-smoking football coach who blew $2.1M on Bitcoin: ‘I’m still a believer’
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2019-6-26 15:04

Disgraced football coach Mark “Bomber” Thompson has admitted to abusing crystal meth and obsessively trading cryptocurrency for 12 hours a day in the lead-up to his arrest, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Today, Thompson (53) told Melbourne Magistrates Court that cryptocurrency was something he’d “been looking for” since the end of his career, and that he’d been consumed by watching YouTube tutorials. This, combined with methamphetamine intake, is said to have led the renowned footballer to trade up to $2. 1 million (AU$3 million) worth of Bitcoin over a two-year-period. In 2015, Thompson was fined $30,000 for his role in the…

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