Incident happened while on loan at Birmingham in 2012Crystal Palace winger opens up on gambling addictionAndros Townsend has revealed he lost £46,000 in one night while struggling with a gambling addiction. The Crystal Palace winger, who has 13
England caps, was fined in June 2013 by the
Football Association and suspended for four months for breaching betting regulations and it proved a turning point in his career.
Townsend has explained how a mix of an addictive personality and boredom led him to download a betting app during one of his nine loan spells away from
Tottenham and that it soon spiralled out of control.