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Marouane Chamakh has burnt bridges
MAROUANE CHAMAKH has sent his Arsenal career up in smoke after being caught in a London shisha bar following their 2-1 defeat at QPR.
Arsene Wenger was already furious with his players’ display and he will be even more angry to find out Chamakh took part in a shisha-smoking session with Rangers scorer Adel Taarabt.
Taarabt himself could be in trouble, as QPR manager Mark Hughes and team-mate Shaun Derry have called on him to show more maturity.
Marouane Chamakh is on the way out for Arsenal
Wenger and Hughes will now decide whether to fine the Morocco team-mates, but flop Chamakh is set to be told he has no future at Arsenal and will be sold at the end of the season.
Marouane Chamakh caught smoking shisha
Shisha is a waterpipe in which fruit-scented tobacco is burned using coal, passed through a water vessel and inhaled through a hose.
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Although neither Chamakh nor Taarabt were breaking club rules by being in the bar, a recent study found one shisha session can be as harmful as smoking 100 cigarettes.
Wenger has gone on record as saying it is unacceptable for his players to smoke.