{"id":467355,"date":"2026-05-30T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/467355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:00:08","slug":"peter-shilton-feared-people-would-leak-his-gambling-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/467355\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Shilton feared people would leak his gambling addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shilton has long credited his addiction counsellor wife, Steph, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-essex-62186923\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">helping him to kick the gambling habit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being quite well known, it&#8217;s difficult [to get help] because you&#8217;re frightened it&#8217;s going to get out and somebody&#8217;s going to [write] it in the press, it&#8217;s going to go haywire,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why Steph was so good. She worked on me over a period of time until it finally clicked. It is a terrible, silent disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The legendary goalkeeper, who famously conceded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/football\/55078940\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Maradona&#8217;s &#8220;Hand of God&#8221; goal<\/a> in 1986, said his charity would help gamblers rehabilitate themselves and manage their debts, and offer prevention work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been backed by his former teammates Gary Lineker, Terry Butcher and Paul Parker, as well as cricket icon Graham Gooch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are between 117 and 496 suicides associated with problem gambling every year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/gambling-related-harms-evidence-review\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to government figures, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shilton has long credited his addiction counsellor wife, Steph, with helping him to kick the gambling habit. &#8220;Being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-467355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}