Focus On - Football and Gambling
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In our latest episode Clare Wilde speaks to Kevin Twaddle about his experiences with gambling in relation to his football career.
Clare then speaks to Heather Wardle who gives her academic insight into the subject.
These interviews are taken from a feature podcast called 'The Biscuit Tin' that discusses finance in football and is available as part of our paid subscription service.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hi, I'm Claire Wild, welcome to the 90 Minutes Cynic. This is a bonus podcast that we're releasing. Part of the Biscuit Tin podcast, which is a show we do about the business side of football, everything that happens off the pitch. We did an episode very recently related to gambling. We managed to get some interviews. One was with Kevin Twoddle, former Scottish professional footballer, who's been very open |
| 0:56.7 | himself about the issues he's had with gambling, and another with Heather Wardle, an academic |
| 1:02.9 | who is specifically studying gambling in sport, gambling in football, and is actually starting a project |
| 1:09.0 | very soon in Glasgow, just around that subject. |
| 1:12.7 | They both shared their own insights into the relationship between football and gambling, |
| 1:16.8 | and we wanted to share those with you here. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm joined by ex-professional Scottish footballer Kevin Twoddle. Thank you so much for joining us, |
| 1:24.4 | Kevin. |
| 1:25.3 | No plots. |
| 1:27.1 | We're just going to talk. Can I just ask you a little |
| 1:29.5 | bit about you've been quite public about your experience with gambling. Can I just ask you to |
| 1:35.4 | sort of go over that for a minute or two? Yeah. I obviously started gambling when I was 13, 14 |
| 1:43.1 | and that was when I was at school, |
| 1:46.7 | and then obviously progressed into my working life and then obviously into my football career. |
| 1:55.6 | So it's kind of followed me wherever I've been until obviously 2000 and 2004, |
| 2:01.6 | I'm trying to commit suicide. |
| 2:03.6 | But I think it was more like a cry for help. |
| 2:06.6 | I think if I was probably graven or thought of it. |
| 2:08.6 | But yeah, it's following me right through my life. |
| 2:10.6 | Yeah, and that's a story that we're kind of hearing, I guess, more and more often, |
| 2:15.6 | with people's mental health suffering hugely |
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