Trevor Carson remembers the date as if it were yesterday. He even knows what night of the week it was – a Tuesday.
A night where the St Mirren keeper walked through the doors of a non-descript hall in Gloucester, sat down with a dozen strangers and made the greatest save of his life. A night where he saved himself from the hell of a gambling addiction that had run out of control and destroyed everything around him.
Seven and a half years on the 35-year-old Northern Ireland international still has an itch and believes he always will have. But it’s one he knows he can never scratch. Carson told Record Sport : “I am almost eight years off gambling but I know I’m only one bet away from starting again. They say you’re an addict for life and that’s true. I couldn’t just do a bet on the Grand National for example. That would be me. If I did that one bet it would be spiralling out of control again.”
