Former Blues forward Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has apologised to his most recent club Greenock Morton following his release from jail on parole, the 34-year-old having been convicted of drugs smuggling offences last month.

Emmanuel-Thomas was with Morton at the time of his arrest in September 2024 and was on remand prior to pleading guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court.

In a post on Instagram, the one-time Arsenal youngster said: “Apologies to all affiliated with Greenock Morton. I let you guys down big time, hopefully you can forgive me.

“If the chance comes along I will right my wrongs but that will be up to the club, if it does not I wish you all the best and thank you.”

Emmanuel-Thomas also posted a video over the weekend showing him returning to training after “294 days of hard thought and reflection”.

Nicknamed JET, Emmanuel-Thomas joined the Blues for a fee of a reported £1.5 million from Arsenal, where he had come through their academy, in July 2011. A mercurial talent, manager Paul Jewell famously once said he “goes from a world beater to a panel beater”.

The Forest Gate-born attacker went on to make 43 starts and 32 sub appearances for the Blues, scoring nine times, before being made available by Mick McCarthy in the summer of 2013 along with Michael Chopra.

Emmanuel-Thomas moved onto Bristol City in a swap deal which saw Paul Anderson join Town and went on to have plenty of clubs.

In addition to the Robins, he played for QPR, MK Dons, Gillingham (loan), Thai side PTT Rayong, Livingston, Aberdeen, Jamshedpur in India and Kidderminster Harriers before joining Morton in the summer of 2024.

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Welshblue72 added 13:25 - Jul 18 Not really interested in old players. Can we get update on any players in coming please
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badadski added 14:15 - Jul 18 Released on parole ? Huh - so smuggle drugs with intent to supply and get less than a year / chop down a sycamore and get 10. How’s does our justice system work ?
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WeWereZombies added 14:32 - Jul 18 badadski - it was four and a quarter years that was handed down to the Sycamore fellers, not ten; and they will probably get parole too and be out after a similar time to Thomas. For what it is worth I doubt that it is worthwhile jailing anyone who is not a danger to the public, much better to force them to carry out activities that will be surer to reform them and also repay the debt to those who have lost out as a result of their actions. Hope that Thomas is genuine in his repenting words and stays true to them, whatever he does next I wish him well in it just so long as it is beneficial to all.

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bluesissy added 14:40 - Jul 18 Who wants to here anything from this loser...a bit like one of our former players..hey jason
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bluesissy added 15:46 - Jul 18 Cadiar...I'm assuming your a fan of all the violence, death, misery and crime associated with drugs?
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Ipswich1977 added 20:17 - Jul 18 Apologise? Why would you get involved with drug snuggling in the first place? Absolute idiot. You're old enough to understand that it's wrong. You couldn't have been that hard up you had to resort to bringing drugs into the country. What is wrong with you man?
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Bergholtblue added 21:59 - Jul 18 Apologise as much as he likes, his football career is over! I bet he realised that anyway to start to get involved in drug smuggling.
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Welshblue72 added 04:40 - Jul 19 Really can’t understand why I got marked down by people for saying I wasn’t interested in ex players when most just criticise JET and ask for any news of incoming. What a sad bunch you all are. Now marked that down bell**ds
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 06:37 - Jul 19 Welshblue I marked you down cos it's a stupid comment . This is a website about Ipswich Town . He's a former player , so its news and its relevant. The headline tells you what the article is about . If you're not interested then don't read it . Your last comment is even worse. Obviously TWTD will report any incoming players , but they have no power on when this happens.

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