Million-pound lottery winner Daniel Wright warns other players that a prize claim can be invalidated under certain circumstances – and he nearly fell foul of the rule

A self-confessed football hooligan who won £1,000,000 on the EuroMillions lottery says that he came close to losing the win over a technicality.

Daniel Wright, whose fictionalised biography Northern Monkeys loosely adapts his rise in the ranks of Bradford City's hard-core following, "The Ointment," told podcaster James English that he had been on holiday and killing time while his girlfriend was taking a shower.

"I just thought I'd check my emails, and I saw on that said 'You've won on EuroMillions.' I thought it would be £2.50 or something."

But to find out for certain Daniel opened the official lottery application

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