Football is a notoriously boom-and-bust business when it comes to finances, with several former top stars having run into money trouble.
Wes Brown is the latest, with the Mirror revealing on Thursday that the former Manchester United star had been declared bankrupt at the High Court. HMRC had filed a bankruptcy petition against him, on February 27 this year, with it being rubber stamped at the High Court on April 12.
Brown won five Premier League titles with the Red Devils before retiring in 2018 after spells at Sunderland and Blackburn Rovers. The former defender is far from the first footballer to have fallen on hard times though.