One afternoon two seasons ago, an EFL manager was tidying a locker during the players’ warm-up when, underneath a pile of socks and shorts, he found a tin of something he did not recognise.
The kit man revealed it was a substance known as ‘snus’ and conceded the support staff had not shared their knowledge of it. It prompted the manager to do a sweep of the lockers and he was astonished to find around 75 per cent of players had snus carefully buried away. At his next club, he put the number at around 50 per cent.
After researching snus and finding links to gum disease and
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