BLACKBURN Rovers legend Colin Hendry has been given two months to sort out his debts — or be made bankrupt.

Judge Michael Buckley, sitting at Blackpool Magistrates' Court, granted the father-of-four an interim order, which is a legal breathing space to deal with creditors.

The court was to have heard two petitions for bankruptcy against Hendry, 45, who was capped 51 times for Scotland.

One was from online gaming company SpreadEx, which is pursuing Hendry for £35,000, and the other is understood to be from HM Revenue and Customs.

The bankruptcy hearing will now take place in June.

Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph at his home in Lytham last month, Mr Hendry, whose wife Denise died last year after complications from botched plastic surgery, said he did not want to talk about the situation at present.

Mr Hendry, who lives with his two youngest children in Lytham, would only say: "We have had a very tough year but there has been a huge amount of support from friends, family and from the football community."

Last month he was also been ordered to repay £90,000 following a county court judgement in favour of a former neighbour he borrowed money from.

A ruling at Blackburn County Court last week went in favour of Hendry’s ex neighbour Hector MacFarlane.

Thailand-based Mr McFarlane's is understood not to want to enforce the judgment.