Last Bet You Won

if my memory serves correct this is because of a typo occurring in an official fixtures schedule published long ago. the day sheffield were scheduled to play was simply written too close to the team - either everyone was dumb enough to believe that was now their name or they found it amusing and the name stuck

Felt a bit shit when she went home on her own in a huff...*and* never bought me the beer even though it was her round anyway! Gah.

(yeah I know, pedanticons, the US version was billed as being by "George Michael of Wham!", but that's a technicality since we're not in the US; Megan's get-out clause was that because it was a Michael/Ridgeley composition - true - it's actually a Wham! song...)

*shrug*

correct score in the england (football) match on saturday profited me to the tune of £12. I was delighted.

also put two quid on 3-1 because the odds were far superior so at the end I was praying for an estonia goal: "robinson's a donkey! just launch one at him!"

won a fiver off my brother betting on outcome of dna paternity tests on maury povich yesterday.

four out of five results right on yesterdays footie yielded a mild profit (curse you Accrington, for stopping it being a hefty profit), prior to that seventy quid on an accumulator a week back

I knew someone who had a bet on England to win 2-0 recently, to the tune of £500 on it.

One englishman cried in the country when the third goal went in, close to the end...

i had some money on Greece to beat Bosnia 4-1 on Saturday so was disgusted when at 3-1 Greeks there was a last minute goal to the visitors. last bet i 'nearly' won...

My husband stole my free £1 score/first score bet that I won from William Hill for the final of Euro 2004, and put it on Greece 1 - 0 Portugal then did a random pointing at the list of Greeks to get a first scorer, came up with Charisteas, won £66 then, rather than thanking me for giving him the bet, he roundly mocked me for thinking Portugal would win then bought the DVD boxset of all the Star Trek movies with his winnings. He's never bet on the football since.

I used to do quite well on the fixed odds, but never more than about £50 since there's risking things and then there's just being silly.

My mate keeps on winning money with what I put on the Scottish Football Predictions Thread. :-/

I generally turn a profit.

Score/first scorer bets are a terrible lottery.

In fact a last minute penalty at Preston once cost me a couple of grand!

Preston's draw with cardiff was the only result that didn't come in for me a couple of weeks back, one more goal and I was eight grand to the good :(

shaun wright phillips won me £18 last weekend (£1 each way first goalscorer 12-1). thanks swp.

Putting Stilian Petrov as the first scorer at Celtic Park every other week gave a pretty decent return a few years ago when you could get 18/1 on him. I've won a few quid off putting Stephen McManus down as first scorer, but since I've moved seats at Parkhead and don't go past the Ladbrokes stall any more, I've given up on that line of losing/making money. I've only ever won two score/first scorers - one was Aberdeen to lose 2-0 to Celtic at Pittodrie with Hartson scoring first. I only won that one thanks to Rab Douglas saving a penalty. The other was Scotland 1 - 0 England, Don Hutchison in the Euro 2000 playoffs which I hated putting on because I knew Scotland needed more than that, but they had plucky losers written all over them.