lost £100,000 on a bet

Rabies · 21-06-2002 2:33pm #1

some english fan placed a £100,000 bet that england would beat brazil.
check it out on sky news

EvilGeorge · 21-06-2002 2:50pm

Wishful thinking!!

Borzoi · 21-06-2002 3:25pm

I'd love to have it to loose it!:D

sceptre · 21-06-2002 7:38pm

He'd have been better off spread-betting.

Pick a few smaller teams and put money on them in the group matches. Always pays for itself at worst. Doesn't work in the Premiership too well, but the WC is just that kind of tournament (so is Wimbledon btw - putting money on the champion getting knocked out in the first or second round will give you a good profit in the mid-term - trouble is having to wait years for the actual profit if you don't get it right the first time)

Having said that, maybe he did. Could be how he got the money to lose it in the first place - a few well-placed bets on Senegal and Japan.

po0k · 21-06-2002 9:40pm

muppet.

I don't bet a whole lot myself, and when i do it's always money i expect to lose. It'd only be píshed against the wall half the time anywyas.

BEAT · 21-06-2002 10:31pm

betting England would beat Brazil...hehehe/me laughs hysterically
he deserved to lose it, and obviously has it to lose betting that much dinero

Mossy Monk · 22-06-2002 9:48pm

it serves him right for putting so much money on it. all i can say is ha ha

leeroybrown · 24-06-2002 7:55pm

I suppose some people have so much money that they have to put on ludicrous sums to get any enjoyment from placing a bet.

After all the millionaires €10,000 bet is like the poor mans €50 bet.

Tellox · 24-06-2002 8:33pm

betting £100,000 on england winning?
he deserved to lose it :P

I cant even imagine what his missus would say. honestly, I cant.

castie · 25-06-2002 4:27am

well they did have a chance for like being ahead an all

lost £100,000 on a bet

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