Maltese punter who has never staked more than €1 won one of the biggest football accumulator bets of all time on Sunday afternoon.
When Liverpool’s Glen Johnson scored their late winner against Chelsea on Sunday afternoon he turned a punter’s hard luck story into a half a million pound football fairy-tale!
For the goal landed record odds of 683,738/1 from bookies William Hill for the 41 year old gambler who had staked less than a pound on an accumulator bet of 19 football results, the previous 18 of which had already won, leaving his entire wager – at that stage already £152,000 - riding on the outcome of the Chelsea-Liverpool game in which the visitors were 7/2 underdogs.
The punter, from a small village in Malta, who placed his bet online at
www.williamhill.com and has never staked more than one euro on any bet he has placed, collected 683,739 euros for his one euro stake – which translates to £585,143.24.
William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe told Bettingpro:
‘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!’
Mystery Maltese Man’s William Hill bet: Return 683,739.88euros.
Norwich vs Arsenal - 7/10- away
Everton vs Wolves- 6/10- home
Man City vs Newcastle -1/3- home
Swansea vs Man Utd -4/9- away
Chelsea vs Liverpool -7/2- away
West Brom vs Bolton - 11/10- home
Inverness vs Celtic -4/9- away
Southampton vs Brighton -8/15- home
Coventry vs West Ham -4/5- away
Reading vs Cardiff -11/5- away
Brentford vs Charlton -7/5- away
Huddersfield vs Notts County -4/5- home
Sheff Utd vs Carlisle -19/20- home
Colchester vs MK Dons -6/4 Away
Tranmere vs Sheff Wed -9/5- Away
Crawley vs Oxford -5/6 home
Dagenham vs Southend -5/6 away
Cheltenham vs Port Vale -13/10 home
Northampton vs Shrewsbury -11/8 away
