Maltese punter wins Euro 683 739.88 thanks to Glen Johnson's late goal

Written by BrainBetting Team Thursday, 24 November 2011 12:42

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An unnamed 41-year-old football punter from a small village in Malta will be ending his year Euro 683 739.88 richer after hitting it big on a less than Euro 1 accumulator bet placed online at WilliamHill.com .

Liverpool Football Club player Glen Johnson's late winning score against Chelsea landed record odds of 683 738/1 from bookmaker William Hill for the fortunate punter who had staked 1 Euro on an accumulator bet of 19 football results, the previous 18 of which had already won, leaving his entire wager riding on the outcome of the Chelsea-Liverpool game in which the visitors were 7/2 underdogs.

"We cannot recall any punter winning either this much on an accumulator, or landing such stratospheric odds- even though he wasn't a Liverpool fan before, he tells us he is now!" said Graham Sharpe, a William Hill spokesman.

"Football punters were already celebrating the biggest winning weekend in living memory as all the best fancied teams in the Premier League, Championship, Leagues One & Two, Blue Square, SPL & William Hill Scottish Cup turned out be winners", added Sharpe.

"This late winner in the final game of the weekend left us feeling about as cheerful as under-pressure Chelsea boss Andre Villas Boas. The weekend as a whole was football betting's equivalent of racing's Dettori day in 1996, when Frankie rode all seven winners at Ascot, costing the industry almost GBP 50million.

"Punters backing long-odds accumulative bets like the one described here were the biggest winners, most of them collecting four & five figure sums from modest stakes."

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