“Ignore and deny was my way. As a footballer, you get so much done for you. Your agent sorts out bills, the club does this and that, so when a letter came in, I’d just put it to the side. My mum would come round to my house and say: do you never open letters?” He could not run forever. “At Sheffield United I realised I had a real problem. Online betting had come in which was a nightmare for me. I was staking over 100 grand in a day. I knew it had to stop.”