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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Kyle Joseph George Lafferty is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock and the Northern Ireland national team.
Seeing young boys wearing your country's shirt with your name on it is the best feeling you can probably have.
Scotland - and Glasgow - is a tough place to play football and a lot of big names have come up here and not produced.
Glasgow is a strange place. If you don't have someone close to you looking out for you, your head will wander.
It's always been an ambition of mine to play in the Premier League and I feel, if I moved to Wolves then I'd have an excellent chance of reaching what many believe is the greatest league in the world.
I've no problem with Neil Lennon. I'm thrilled for him to be interested in me. He tried to sign me for Bolton but football is football.
It should be a special moment and young kids are brought up to give their right arm to play for their country. I wasn't fully focussed at the start.
I grew up in Northern Ireland, didn't have a lot of money and getting over to Glasgow to watch a game was probably a lot to expect from my mum and dad.
My performances in training and in games are night and day.
I think that's why gamblers get so bad, being online. It makes it so easy. I don't have any online accounts, I never have.
I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.
But I think I'm always going to be remembered for being the daft guy who had a chance at Rangers and never took it.
When a team like Rangers is interested in you, it's something you have to look at and you know you're doing something right.
I've been around the world and it's an experience I've enjoyed. But there's no feeling like pulling on a Rangers jersey and playing in front of those fans every week.
I was probably given a bit too much at an early age. I got some big moves and played in big games.
I'm always going to be a Rangers fans and I'll always look out for their results. But if I thought the fans would have me back, then I'd always have that door open.
I have travelled and I have played for some amazing clubs along the way. In Italy and at Sion, I enjoyed my time.
I think everyone knows that when you find someone you love, you want to make them proud.
I'd be up three grand and I'd end up losing the lot. It didn't affect me because I knew I was about to get a move and the signing-on fee would make up for the money I lost.
I've given my all to Burnley but don't feel wanted. No player is going to stay where he is not happy.
I was in and about the Northern Ireland team, I was a young boy, an up and coming star in the team!
But for my first Rangers game it was an amazing game. I was sitting there, the stands, singing the songs. The whole atmosphere, the whole stadium red, white and blue and just this wee section was Zenit fans. I got goosebumps and everything.
I spoke to the Sporting Chance clinic and I was seeing a guy in London every one or two weeks for an hour-long meeting about my gambling.
Playing in Norway allowed me to get back out onto the pitch and get game time, it was great to be playing regularly again.
I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.
You have to have something about you to perform in Scotland. I'm sure these foreign players are excellent but we don't know how they're going to perform.
Hearing teams like Rangers are interested in you, you intend to give that little bit extra to show that obviously you can play and score goals.
I won't pay a guy money that I don't think he deserves.
I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.
Betting on football had been banned and, if anything, things got worse. I'd bet on horses instead. I knew absolutely nothing about horses.
I knew it was against the rules to bet on football, but when you've got an addiction you just want to win that money back.
I've always given 110% for Northern Ireland, for my country. I'll never throw in the towel.
It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.