Neil Jones, 59, had just £13 in his pocket when he and his partner Julie Kirkham won the life-changing cash.
The 59-year-old who was a pool junior has now said playing for England is his biggest achievement – despite winning the lottery A tiler whose first purchase after winning £2.4 million on the lottery was a pool table is now set to represent his country on the world stage. Neil Jones, 59, had just £13 in his pocket when he and his partner Julie Kirkham won the life-changing cash just before Christmas in 2010.
If I didn’t win, I wouldn’t have been able to buy the table, I wouldn’t have had the time – I’d still be on my hands and knees tiling. ‘When lockdown happened, I was in a local singles league and obviously everyone was locked down, but I could still keep practising, so my game never dropped. ‘When we went back to pick the singles league up, I was ringing everyone up straight away ‘do you want to play a match?’ – because I knew I’d had the practice.
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Lottery winner who used winnings to buy pool table now set to represent EnglandNeil Jones said his win allowed him to retire and dedicate more time to honing his pool skills – and his practice has paid off.
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Lottery winner who used winnings to buy pool table now set to represent EnglandNeil Jones said his win allowed him to retire and dedicate more time to honing his pool skills – and his practice has paid off.
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Lottery winner who used money to buy pool table now set to represent EnglandNeil Jones said his win allowed him to retire and dedicate more time to honing his pool skills – and his practice has paid off.
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