Police and paramedics were called after the Newcastle legend, was seen slumped outside his £3m rented apartment in Sandbanks, Dorset.
Last night he was being treated in Poole Hospital, with friends reportedly claiming that the retired midfielder was in the process of being evicted from the flat following noise complaints from neighbours and that he “had turned back to the bottle.”
The latest hospital stay came on the same day that it was announced the ex-Magpies star, 47, who was capped 57 times by his country, had signed for footballing minnows Abbey.