POOLS? FINE? IT'S BARELY A DROP IN THE OCEAN

After was baring his backside to Everton fans during a 1-1 draw with his club, Manchester City,  Joey Barton was fined £2000, a mere drop in the ocean for a young earner like him. This was took place on September 30th 2006.

45 years earlier, to the day, Viv Nicholson and her second husband, Keith, of meagre means, won the Pools, having places a 5 shilling bet and winning £15239, 18 shillings and 8 pence (£3.5 million in today's money). Bruce Forsyth presented the lucky pair with their cheque.

5 years later Keith was killed in a car crash and gradually, Viv, who could not cope with fame and fortune,  withered away, like her fortune and decided to join the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1976. She got dementia and died in April 2015.

Her life story was put into a book that she helped write and became a West End musical called "Spend Spend Spend" which won a BAFTA, This obit is worth a read........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/celebrity-obituaries/11531195/Viv-Nicholson-pools-winner-obituary.html