Sport"Yep, you got me" That's what former international cricket umpire Darrell Hair told his managers at a bottle shop when they confronted him about stealing money from the till, according to a report by the Sydney Morning Herald. In the grip of gambling addiction, Hair was working at D'Aquino's Liquor in Orange, in central west NSW, nine years after ending his long and colourful career as an umpire. In what the magistrate called a "monumental fall from grace", Hair stole $9005.75 between February 25 and April 28 this year. A fact sheet tendered to court said Hair would regularly make unauthorised refunds and pocket the cash, or take the money directly from customers. Mr Allen said gambling ads were everywhere, and gambling addiction was "no less real than an addiction to drugs ... or alcohol".

Source: Sunday Times October 24, 2017 09:00 UTC