Saudi Arabia side Al-Shabab are reportedly willing to offer former Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea a return to football.
14.01.2024 - 12:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
David Quinti only used to gamble on the weekends with his friends. It started out as a few quid here and there. It was just a bit of fun.
But the odd visit to the bookies turned into spinning wheels online. Before long, David was staying up until sunrise to gamble his life savings away, losing an eye-watering £30,000 in total.
“It stopped becoming an element of fun and started to consume me,” the dad-of-two, from Burnage, said. “It was taking over my life; I felt like I was in a bubble.
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“People would see me but I wasn’t really there. I was quickly becoming tormented inside. My mind was just on gambling.”
David, 49, first entered the world of gambling in his late 20s. He would occasionally bet on a football match or a horse race.
But things took a downward spiral with the rise of the smartphone in the 2010s, meaning the dad could take his betting habit online.
This is when the “lines started to blur,” according to the customer service worker. With hundreds of gambling sites at his fingertips, David realised he could bet whenever and wherever he liked.
“I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought I had some level of skill when I was gambling” he said. “Whenever a bet came in it was great – but at that point I felt I could take it or leave it.
“I joined six to seven sites where I’d been offered free bets. I noticed I was starting to get more involved with live betting which you could do through your phone as the games were going on – the next corner, the next goal, the next card. That’s when the lines began to blur.”
David noticed he was spending more and more time engrossed in online gambling. Until then, he had never touched
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