I don't think that's quite what they are doing.
It's not particularly fair to do what they are doing anyway though.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:24, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

They included a picture of him playing Sharpe
which was what, '94 or so?
( Kroney, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:26, Reply)

take shot of celebrity looking rough/blinking as they leave a club etc
extrapolate into "alcohol hell"
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:26, Reply)

Yeah, that's what they are doing.
Although, as you jokingly implied, the voice of experience in me suggests they are probably on to something.

Not that that makes it fair to splash it all over the papers.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:28, Reply)

I saw him in the pub a coule of years ago and he looked rough then
not ina shambling alcoholic kind of way, just weather beaten. he has that sort of face.¬
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:30, Reply)

You saw him a pub. Proof right there. The dirty drunk...
But as I said, it really was the bandage more than anything else that made me think 'oh dear'.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:32, Reply)

It looks like his little finger is missing

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:33, Reply)

Swapped it for a bottle of vodka, I'd say.
Did you never wonder why my typing was so bad?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 31 May 2012, 11:46, Reply)