num_pages: 320
description: KEITH GILLESPIE is renowned as a footballer who liked a bet. And lost a lot.One afternoon he added up how much he had squandered during the course of his professional career. It made for uncomfortable reading...Manchester United 60000Newcastle United 1102000Blackburn Rovers 3510000Leicester City 1050000Sheffield United 670000Bradford City 15000 Glentoran 43875Total (plus extras) 7215875That day seemed a world away from 1993 when he burst on to the scene as a fresh-faced young star with Manchester United. A dark-haired lad from the streets of Northern Ireland with a God-given talent he was dubbed the new George Best.One of the famous Fergie fledglings he made his debut aged just 17 before moving on to Kevin Keegans Newcastle where he came so close to landing a Premiership title winners medal. International caps piled up too. It was a thrilling adventure. Flying down the wing and sharing pitches and dressing rooms with legends but behind the success and glamour it was a different story.Like Best Gillespie had a talent for self-destruction. He liked a drink and there were women but they werent causing a big problem  it was keeping hold of the millions he had earned from the game that ultimately proved his downfall.It wasnt just about gambling. A nightmare ordeal during a training break in La Manga landed him in jail for a crime he did not commit. Then in 2010 Gillespie became headline news again when a series of flawed business deals saw him declared bankrupt.How Not To Be A Football Millionaire is one of the most honest autobiographies you will read about a player who lived the football life to the full.It tells a fascinating and moving human story of the darker side of the glory game. About winning and losing fortune and fate hope and heartache... About having the world at your feet and being left to ask yourself: Where did it all go wrong?
language: English
title: How NOT to be a Football Millionaire - Keith Gillespie My Autobiography
publisher: Trinity Mirror Sport Media