Colin Hendry - how sad

[bridge too far]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/10395494.stm

 

Shame the courts don't apply the same criteria to our fishy neighbours.

 

Poor guy

[hamster]

I thought that gambling debts weren't considered to be proper debts. Where did I get that from?

[Ponty]

It's hard to feel too sorry for someone with money problems who earnt more in a few years than I'll earn in my lifetime. He has had a rough time of things lately though.

[Redondo Saint]

I feel sorry for him due to his circumstances..but surely to owe so much to the tax man is simply not right. This is money that the country badly need and let's face it even with paying tax he would have earnt way more than most in the country. Most people have no choice to pay tax as it is deducted before receipt of any earnings.

[Kev]

According to the Daily Heil, he owes £2.2 million, including £65,000 to his late father's estate.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1288986/Footballer-Colin-Hendry-declared-bankrupt-just-minutes.html

[hamster]

imho the online gambling debt should be wiped. Bookies should help tose that they have benefitted from who clearly have a gambling addiction. Got to pay your taxes though Colin, although tbh Well done for trying to get away with it, I like civil disobedience, my favourite is football violence though! Just people standing up for thier right to damage someone else's property, bloody police, always fitting people up. ACAB. and hope you and your family can find a way through all this. Whatever you do do not fall out with your family, especially over something as trivial as something with the queen's head on it. The system sucks mate, tune in, chill out and **** the lot of tem, they are just a bunch of shysters, you only get one family,

[OldNick]

I have sympathy for him. He obviously lost his soul mate and turned to gambling. Normally I would not have this position, but seeing him interviewed and seeing how his life had been turned upside down i felt sad for him. Was he not left with a very young child as well?

[St Landrew]

I have sympathy for him. He obviously lost his soul mate and turned to gambling. Normally I would not have this position, but seeing him interviewed and seeing how his life had been turned upside down i felt sad for him. Was he not left with a very young child as well?

 

 

That's how I feel about it. We can all cast stones, and Hendry certainly did the wrong thing by turning to gambling. But he lost his closest friend and life partner. Most people would behave, at least, a little oddly after such a blow, and gambling is a hook no sane person wants to get caught by.