Not the first couple to blow a fortune, and they won't be the last. Viv Nicholson and her husband won £152,000 on the football pools back in 1961, and a few years down the line she was declared bankrupt. They were the forerunners of the 'spend, spend, spend' ethic, and in actual fact, that was her mission statement. That amount of cash was an absolute fortune back in the day, the equivalent of £3.5 million today.