Bets & booze drove me to brink of suicide; FOOTBALL EXCLUSIVE.SOCCER boss Steve Paterson Steven William (Steve) Paterson (born on 8th April 1958 in Elgin, Moray) is a football manager and former Scottish footballer. During his professional playing career, he was a central defender and joined Manchester United from Nairn County in July 1975 and made a total of 6 , has revealed gambling and alcohol addictions drove him to the brink of suicide. Paterson, below, the former Aberdeen and Inverness Caley Thistle thistle, popular name for many spiny and usually weedy plants, but especially applied to members of the family Asteraceae (aster family) that have spiny leaves and often showy heads of purple, rose, white, or yellow flowers followed by thistledown seeds (a favorite manager admitted: "I had become a crumbling, drunken wreck. "I thought I was such a liability it would be better all round - certainly for those I had let down - if I wasn't there, if I ended my life. Could this be the only way out of my hell?" In his new book, Paterson reveals he sank so low he even stole from his own mother. But he tells how he was saved by the Sporting Chance Clinic The Sporting Chance Clinic is a registered British based charity, first set up by former Arsenal and England football captain Tony Adams to provide a specialist addiction and recovery facility for sportsmen and women founded by former England defender Tony Adams. Paterson said: "I have been given the lifeline by Sporting Chance and it's no exaggeration to state had I not had that, by Christmas last year I would have been in the gutter, or in a psychiatric unit, or dead. Nicknamed Pele during a playing career that began at Manchester United, he tells all in his autobiography, Confessions of a Highland Hero, published this week and serialised today and tomorrow in the Record. Deceit Paterson, 51, reckons he has gambled pounds 1.3 million over the years, while alcoholism cost him his dream job at Pittodrie. His lies and deceit cost him a marriage and even jeopardised his relationship with his daughters and other family members. Paterson admits the memory of stealing from his mother caused him the greatest pain. He said: "How have I repaid my mother for her unwavering love? With lies and deceit and the theft of so much money it makes me weep to think how many times I have betrayed her. "When she would giveme her debit card debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. to allow me to take out pounds 50 I would invariably in·var·i·a·ble adj. Not changing or subject to change; constant. in·var  i·a·bil end up taking more. She forgave for·gave v. Past tense of forgive. forgave Verb the past tense of forgive forgave forgive me. "When I removed cash from her home, convincing myself I would have winnings to allowme to replace the 'loan', it was always the bookies who would benefit. She forgave me. "I'm ashamed of myself for doing that to a woman who would give me every drop of blood in her body." Paterson, who lives near Keith and still hopes to resurrect his managerial career, is now a social worker for Moray Moray, alternate spelling of Murray Moray. For Scottish names spelled thus, use Murray. Moray, council area and former county, Scotland Moray (mûr`ē) Council. He said: "This is a warning to young people that if they have a problem with any kind of addiction, they should seek help." CAPTION(S): CLINIC: Tony Adams |
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