By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 03:25 EST, 22 September 2013 | UPDATED: 04:38 EST, 22 September 2013 Claims: Paul Gascoigne (pictured at court last month) reportedly blew £4,000 on football bets in one session Paul Gascoigne reportedly spent £4,000 in only a few hours during a drunken betting spree. Witnesses said they saw the troubled England legend dropping bundles of £20 notes at a bookmakers following a two-day drinking bender. Staff at the Coral shop in Boscombe, near his Bournemouth flat, eventually had him ejected, according to reports. Gascoigne, 46, was with a number of apparently drunk friends during the session on Wednesday.
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England legend spent money in only a few hours, according to onlookers
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Witnesses said he was 'swaying' and dropping bundles of cash
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Gascoigne, 46, has battled alcoholism for years and was in rehab this year
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