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[TopDeck113]

I'm really sorry, but when someone earns in the space of a relatively few years more money than most us accrue in several lifetimes, I have little sympathy.  Especially when - as has already been remarked - he is an intelligent, articulate person, who will now no doubt earn far more than most pursuing a media career.

[paulcomben]

Which lot number are the gloves he used to drop the ball into the net in the FA Cup Final 2000, the only one reached by Villa in most of our lifetimes?

And if I outbid everyone else in the auction for those, then burn them ritually, will Villa win the FA Cup, even if Phil Dowd is the referee and Paul Lambert is the manager?

[peter w]

I just find it incredibly sad.

[silhillvilla]

The jungle beckons

He'll live. It's not like he will be short of work even if not on mainstream UK TV.

[Risso]

https://www.hilcoind.com/sale-details?view=detailview&pid=490735c4-a3ff-2551-d402-54579bd48161#asset-67908

I'll wonder if that collection has a dozen U2 and Simple Minds LPs like somebody else I could mention?!

[silhillvilla]

Could be worth a Bid 

[cdbearsfan]

I assume he's getting a few quid playing in the Indian Super League so I expect he'll be ok. It's unlikely he wouldn't be able to get a job in the media or (goalkeeping) coaching should he want to.

[Quiet Lion]

It is incredible how often the top players go broke. Not just the Lee Hendries of this world. There is a stat that 60% of NFL players go bankrupt after 5 years of retirement, just madness.

On the flip side Thomas Gravesen made £100m from investing when he retired.

[andrew08]

I'm not over convinced that celebrity bankruptcy isn't nothing more than snide accountancy.

12 years ago I had a business that failed and I was nowhere near bankruptcy but in order to satisfy my creditors I sold my house and possessions and had the square root of Fxxx all left. I got emergency rehoused in Tipton in a rough old flat with no heating having just had our first baby. Had I transfered my house into my girlfriends name, declared bankruptcy, things would have been a little easier to say the least.

I dare say we will shortly see our former goalie sunning himself somewhere expensive. I bet he has a place in Dubai, which I can't imagine being part of his UK bankruptcy.

[Richard E]

Which lot number are the gloves he used to drop the ball into the net in the FA Cup Final 2000, the only one reached by Villa in most of our lifetimes?

And if I outbid everyone else in the auction for those, then burn them ritually, will Villa win the FA Cup, even if Phil Dowd is the referee and Paul Lambert is the manager?

I'm beginning to wonder if we'd win the FA Cup even if no other team entered it.

[silhillvilla]

I'm sure I read a stat that said +50% of Premier League players are divorced within 3 years of retiring .

[barrysleftfoot]

 Met him a few times, a nice bloke.

 Met his ex-wife as well, not a typical footballers moll , a bit frightening tbh, but he did leave her, and he had a biggish house in Bromsgrove, and 4 or 5 kids when he left her, so you pay your money, you make your choice.

 Good luck to him, but i bet he is still a lot better off than most of us will ever be.

[aev]

Having looked at the items on offer it is as if he has just emptied one of his garages.

Might bid for the Gustavo Bartelt signed shirt.

[silhillvilla]

Does seem a bit of a macabre PR stunt.

[Comrade Blitz]

Bagsy the "I Love NY" mug!