Nez, now I'm more confused; it was I think 1977 after all. I have asked my cousin who placed the bet for me (and to whom I gave the £38 cash - Ladbrokes for some reason gave me a cheque for £1500 and the rest in notes) and he remembers it as five BUT differs from me in two regards. Firstly, he reckons it was NOT correct scores but rather SCORE DRAWS that you had to predict (he may be right as certainly all the predictions I remember were for score draws). Secondly - and I'm sure he's right here - he says that the missed £63,000 was a week or two after the £1500 win. This makes sense as I probably got greedy after winning and moved from 5 to 6 predictions. So there you go. I did (do?) have a photocopy of the cheque which I used to pull out in the boozer until people started to get understandably shirty.
Ha-ha, I've only just seen this post mate!
Yes, that would indeed explain the lower return if your selections were for score draws!
Assuming that they all resulted in 1-1 draws with an average of a 7/1 price on each then your return would have been 16,807/1.
I've never gambled "online" Ian, but I gather there's a bonus for 1st time customers on most sites, usually where they'll match your stake (pound for pound) but there's usually a "catch", so beware!
I think Kempo is your man for this type of betting, or maybe Zilzal if he visits the site!
As said joining multiple sites to get the new customer bonuses is a good idea and then use oddschecker to find the online bookie with the best odds for your specific bet.
On the oddschecker site you can put your ac***ulator bet into a bet basket, open it and the site will tell you which bookie gives the best odds..Simply place the bet with this bookie.
Betvictor is the one that fairly consistently gives the better odds and on a 5 match ac***ulator, if one lets you down then you get your stake back as a free bet.
Good luck....we all need lots of it to beat the bookie!
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