Former footballer Danny Guthrie has been declared bankrupt after he racked up £120,000 in gambling debts.
The 35-year-old started at Liverpool before playing for Bolton, Newcastle, Reading, Blackburn and Walsall.
In May 2019 he borrowed £75,000 from a friend to pay his expenses, promising to repay the loan after selling a home.
But before that he ran up the gambling debts, and when he sold the property in 2020 for £160,000, he chose to repay those debts ahead of other creditors.
The Insolvency Service said he did this "by making several cash withdrawals despite knowing he was insolvent".