Life on the Line: How to Lose a Million and So Much More

As a footballer, Kevin Twaddle was always prepared to take a risk on the park, but it was off it where he really gambled. Now, for the first time, Kevin speaks openly about the secret gambling addiction that wrecked his football career, saw him blow more than a million pounds and nearly cost him his life.

His first bet at the age of just thirteen, when he won £84, was the start of it. Then, a football career with St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Morton, Motherwell and Hearts gave him the money to fuel his gambling addiction. But as his debts mounted, his career also suffered as he moved clubs just to get signing-on fees to clear his debts. And when he began to steal from his closest family and friends and thought seriously about turning to crime to get cash fast, his life rapidly began to spiral out of control.

In Life on the Line, Kevin Twaddle tells the full story of what happened to him and the truly shocking lengths he went to to gamble, the terrible consequences it had for him and his family - and how close he came to taking his own life. Brutally honest, utterly compelling and often shocking, this is the true story of one man's struggle with his gambling addiction and how, against the odds, he managed to turn his life around.