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Arsenal ace Jack Wilshere pictured with SMOKING pipe in nightclub
JACK WILSHERE is set to face the wrath of Arsene Wenger - after being snapped with a smoking pipe.
Wilshere is at it again. Was pictured smoking a shisha. pic.twitter.com/9rz2ov1srM
— GM (@GoonerMind) February 4, 2015
Pictures have been doing the rounds on Twitter of Wilshere holding a shisha pipe in a nightclub.
It is the third time the Arsenal midfielder has been caught smoking - after being snapped puffing on a cigarette last season and in Las Vegas over the summer.
The latest controversy comes just weeks after goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny was fined £20,000 and dropped for smoking in the showers at Southampton.
However, Arsenal are reportedly refusing to rush to a judgment on Wilshere this time as there could be an innocent explanation for the pictures.
Jack Wilshere is at the centre of a fresh smoking controversy
But the 23-year-old could be rapped by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger, having said he will learn from being caught smoking last summer.
"The smoking? Of course I regret it," Wilshere admitted. "I have been seen before doing it.
"I said then I made a mistake and I have made a mistake again. People make mistakes.
"I am young and I will learn from it.
"I realise the consequences it has and the effect on kids growing up.
"I have kids myself and I don't want them growing up to think their dad smokes and it is OK for a footballer to smoke, because it's not.
"It is unacceptable. I will accept the consequences and move on."
Wilshere is currently back in training as he recovers from an ankle injury.