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Gambling and the casinos in football.
The envy of many man is the bloke who gets paid a vast amount of money for kicking a ball around, getting attention from wannabe "wags", freebies and, again, loads of money.
"Be careful what you wish for." That is what a homeless bloke who looked a lot like Owen told me. A vast fortune is easy to flutter away. Some footballers have tried their best, here - in the order I find then in google searches - are a few:
Matthew Etherington: I blew £1.5m on gambling and kept my shame a secret from family
The Mail report on this "he's OK now" story. Etherington seemingly didn't mind that much about the football match but more whether or not his horse had galloped home to win him some extra beer money. He would play poker on the bus to and from the match betting his £20,000 weekly wage. Then in tear jerking moment he was confronted by his emotional family and has now kicked the habit.
Not only disappointing in an England shirt he is a disappointing gambler. In 2006 he was in a spot of bother and was refusing to pay debts owed to a bookies, thought to be around £700,000. Clearly needing a bit of cash for his extra activities he claimed that the bookies weren't legit, which begs the question "Why were you betting with them?".
Back in the days when Owen could look at a football and it would go in the net he was also a compulsive - according to the linked to article - gambler. Using an online bookies and a spread betting company he gambled £2.2 MILLION! Note that this is money that has gone in and out, he wasn't a total loser.
The man they call "JT" is now not a gambling man, but he sure used to be. Several remortgage of his property and several betting counts seem to be testimony to that.
Some unnamed footballer broke down in a blubbering mess as he realised that he had blown - apparently - £1 million on poker. Ouch! Swigging expensive bottles of bubbly clearly made his head unstable as he went on a endless stream of losing poker hands. When he realised the unfortunate position he was in he begged (probably not on his knees in a pathetic heap on the floor); "Please don't tell mummy, PLEASE.".