Gordon Ramsay's Playing With Fire

In the beginning, there was nothing.

Not a sausage - penniless, broke, f ***ing nothing - and although, at a certain age, that didn't matter hugely, there came a time when hand-me-downs, cast-offs and football boots of odd sizes all pointed to a problem that seemed to have afflicted me, my mum, my sisters, Ronnie and the whole lot of us. It was as though we had been dealt the 'all-time dysfunctional' poker hand.

I wish I could say that, from this point on, the penny had dropped and I decided to do something about it, but it wasn't like that. It would take years before the lessons of life, business and money began to click into place -
before, as they say, I had a pot to piss in.

This is the story of how those lessons were learned.