Former Bradford City hooligan Daniel Wright won a EuroMillions fortune three years ago and he recently opened up about the hardest football mobs in the country
Liam McInerney Content Editor
10:37, 10 Dec 2025
Daniel Wright now lives off a EuroMillions fortune (Image: Anything Goes With James English/Youtube)
A notorious football hooligan whose life changed after winning a EuroMillions fortune has named the toughest firm in England. Daniel Wright, who has received three football banning orders in his time, used to cause chaos with a Bradford City gang called The Ointment. His violent past has included being jailed for six years.
But he is now better known as someone who won £1,000,000 on the UK Millionaire Maker in April 2022, a mighty windfall that inspired him to buy a new home and a swanky Rolex worth £40,000.
And despite now living a different life in the market town of Yarm, Durham, Daniel, 41, recently reflected on his hooligan past.
Asked about the toughest footie mob he ever faced, he responded: “The best firm I have ever seen, Manchester United at Bradford.
“Anyone who tells you Man Utd are not a good firm are chatting absolute s***e. Their numbers are just f***ing massive.”
The former hooligan spoke to podcaster James English (Image: Anything Goes With James English/Youtube)
Elaborating on the Anything Goes with James English podcast, Daniel added: “I would say early naughties, they were the best in the country by a long way. That was possibly their peak. They were really good then. Really good.”
He then claimed they once brought 600 fans who were ready to go toe to toe on the streets.
Asked if that was the reason why they were the best, he added: “Definitely, because who else can get 600?”
However, Daniel, who said The Ointment were too inconsistent to be considered the most fierce, then paid homage to other rivals who came close to being as infamous as The Red Army.
He said: “My top five would probably be, not in any particular order, Man Utd, Tottenham, Millwall, Birmingham…”
After a pause, he continued: “Middlesborough, Sheffield United, Leeds, Aston Villa, them teams I would probably have up there as well.”
Bradford City’s Valley Parade (Image: Getty Images)
And singling out Leeds, he later added: “I would say in my time we have always got the better of Leeds but I have seen Leeds on their day, like England Turkey in the Stadium of Light.
“That firm of Leeds I seen that day was an absolutely unbelievable firm. They are a top firm on their day, you can’t deny that.”
It is not the first time Daniel has been open about his terrace days and he once told Danny Dyer’s Real Football Factory that no drug comes close to being present when opposing fans clash, describing it as the “best buzz in the world”.
He also penned a fictionalised biography called Northern Monkeys which is loosely inspired by his rise in The Ointment firm.
And speaking last month about the best and worst things about hooliganism, Daniel, who issued a serious warning to lottery players after his EuroMillions jackpot, said: “Best friends I have ever had. Still my friends today. They would do owt for you. Always stick by you.
“And the negative is obviously going to jail and like having, it is not personally for me, it is more what it did to my family, my mum, my dad, my sisters, you know, my brother, whatever, niece and nephew.
“They’re the negatives, ruining other people’s lives.”