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Some of those predictions. Especially The Championship one. The bookies will find it even funnier if anyone puts on accumulator with those teams in it.
We're only 3 games in, it's a bit rich to start calling people's predictions out. It was just a bit of fun, if you think you could do better then go for it.
As I did for the first game of the season, I wrote down my predictions in a sealed envelope. I will open it at the end of the season and reveal my predictions. Just to show it is genuine I will photograph the piece of paper when I do so and put it on here. As a City fan do you think we will gain automatic promotion. Do you, really...?
I think we are capable with a few improvements. Wolves aside, I think we've looked better in both the other games overall. It's hard to judge without reinforcements.
Unfortunately I don't see that happening. I am tipping Derby. Been tipping them for years along with Brighton. Finally got one of them right last year, so maybe will continue this one.
They would have laughed even harder when someone tipped Leicester to win the league. But not do much when they had to pay out
Yes, the poor bookies. They will have made awful losses and gone bankrupt. Oh, hang on they didn't. That is what a book is all about.Odds end up being decided on what is placed on and what they would have to pay out as a result, not a hunch about what may happen.Put a couple of million on Huddersfield winning the PL and saw what the odds are then. How much of your hard earned would you place on those predictions coming true?
Bookies lost £25m on Leicester winning the league, it was the biggest loss in British history on a single sporting market.
No. Bookies paid out £25million on Leicester and still made a profit on the book. Bookiesxslways quote what they pay out on sporting events but omit to quote what they took in on losing bets on the same event. Tell me of any bookies you see going under, won't you?
The bookies made a loss on the book, the betting on the winner of the league is very small. Coral's for instance, took a total of £1m, at retail and online on the winner of the Premier League and had to pay out £3m on Leicester winning, it's estimated that the loss on the total book was close to £20m. Obviously they won't be going hungry, they'll have pulled most of it back on the Saturday games where the market is much bigger and many people bet against Leicester on a weekly basis, but on that book specific book alone they definitely lost big.
Used to work with a big Leicester fan (big in every sense of the word). For years he put £20 on Leicester winning the League and £20 on them winning the Cup. Spoke to somebody who saw him on a trip back up here to see family and they said he stopped about 3 years before that season.