Retired footballer must surrender £90,000 made from vice

Chris Simpkin, 65, was jailed for two years in February last year,

after admitting keeping a brothel and money laundering between October 2006 and January 2008.

The disgraced sportsman, who played 311 games for Hull City, has now been ordered to pay 91,519.

Simpkin owned the lease on XL Massage, which was previously described by prosecutor Chris Smith as a relatively sophisticated business.

Bradford Crown Court was told last year that Simpkin had paid 25,000 for the lease to the massage parlour, previously known as Pussycats, in November 2002.

The brothel in Bradford used 14 women, many in the country illegally. Takings were deposited via a chute into a safe, to which Simpkin had the only key.

From June 2005, police repeatedly visited the premises as part of inquiries into illegal immigration and people-trafficking.

Prosecutor Chris Smith said in April 2007 Simpkin – who played between 1962 and 1971 alongside City greats Ken Wagstaff and Chris Chilton – was given warning letters by police about running the brothel.

When police launched another inquiry, it emerged that one woman had been sold to a foreign couple in London and then put to work at XL.

When the premises were raided again in November 2007, one of the prostitutes was found to be an illegal immigrant and she was deported back to Albania.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge James Stewart QC, ordered that the money be paid in six months, with 18 months' imprisonment in default.

The sum will be mostly funded by the sale of Simpkin's house in Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire.

Judge Hall said Simpkin had "flagrantly, persistently and recklessly" broken the law.

Mr Smith said that the discredited football player had benefited by more than 826,000 but the available assets were much less.

He said a small amount of cash had been recovered on his arrest, the defendant' s house had previously been valued at 170,000, and he also had equity in a flat.

Peter Warne, representing Simpkin, said it was now thought the house would fetch 150,000 at auction or tender, and his client's son was the beneficiary of the flat, which was rented out.