THEY make more money in one day than most of us will all year. But for cash-flush football stars looking to invest their millions in creative ways, fortune doesn't always favour the brave. This week, we revealed how Gary Neville 's Michelin-star restaurant, The Man Behind the Curtain, has become his latest business flop.
The Leeds eatery - run by chef Micheal O’Hare - has gone into liquidation with debts reported at £1 million, including £519,000 owed in taxes. It's a disappointing result for the former Man United ace, who has had more hits than misses with his business ventures, allowing him to build up a £100million empire But Gary - who even appeared as a guest Dragon on Dragons' Den earlier this year - is far from alone when it comes to footballers and financial disasters. READ MORE SPORTS FEATURES From a former Arsenal star who FORGOT he had bought a £1.
2million home and saw it overrun by drug dealers, to an ex- Chelsea ace swindled in a multi-million pound betting scheme, we look at some of the game's biggest cautionary tales. Tellytubby eco-home nightmare Neville's kitchen nightmare isn't his first setback. He also made a disastrous business decision in 2010, when he bought a plot of land to build an £8million eco-house.
The Sky Sports pundit was planning a futuristic carbon-neutral mansion with its own 130ft wind turbine on, to sit in Harwood, Greater Manchester. The house would be built into the ground with a grassy roof fitted with solar panels. Most read in .