article_snippet.sent: The win, on a football betting pool, in which gamblers predict the results of football games across a season, would be worth up to £5million in today's money.
article_snippet.sent: The pair, from Castleford, West Yorkshire, splurged the cash on flash cars, designer clothes, holidays and partying - frittering away half of the cash wealth within four years of winning.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Nicholson (above) and Mrs Nicholson (above) husband splurged the cash - worth about £5million today - on expensive cars, designer clothes, holidays and partying - frittering away at least half of their wealth within four years of winning .
article_snippet.sent: It's unbelievable that I remember the exact amount We won so clearly - it was £152,300, 18 shillings and eight pence.
article_snippet.sent: Back then, there was no network to support or advise big winners - possibly because hardly anyone had ever won that much.
article_snippet.sent: But when I lost my last 20 grand on the stock market, I did not cry about the stock market.
highlights_snippet.sent: They splurged the cash on expensive cars, designer clothes and holidays .
  