Changing Room Chat: Unlikely treble lands punter a jackpot
YOU would have thought that an Everton fan based in Wigan would be used to supporting the underdogs and his penchant for the plucky outsiders has earned him a share of William Hill’s longest odds football treble.
The man, in his mid 40s, who wishes to remain anonymous, placed £5.00 on Blackburn beating Manchester United (22-1), Aston Villa beating Chelsea (10-1) and when Ji Dong-Won scored the 93rd- minute winner for Sunderland against Manchester City (5-1), he landed a 1517-1 hat-trick of results worth £7590. “To find three of the least predictable of the season and put them in a virtually impossible treble leaves us very relieved he was only prepared to risk a fiver on the outcome,” said Hill’s spokesman Joe Crilly. “The Blackburn game saw the biggest winning Premier League odds we have ever offered – 22-1 for them to win at Old Trafford – and by adding Sunderland and Villa to the mix, the lucky punter beat odds of 1,517/1.