Graham Sharpe
@sharpeangle
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Vinyl addict. Follow-up to 'Vinyl Countdown' book, 'On The Record(s)' due out in September. @LutonTown / @WealdstoneFC .Ex-William Hill PR/ @BookiePrize founder.
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25 Wm Hill customers backed Leicester @ 5000/1, largest £20 to Manchester chap,wins £100,000; smallest 5p to win £250 for Edinburgh woman.
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Born today in 1936, actor/racehorse owner Albert Finney once bought all the tickets for a performance of a show he was in so that he could have the day off to attend the races to see his horse run.. Come the day his horse was a non-runner.
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@jimmysmith_76
25 customers backed Leicester at 5000/1. Largest bet £20 from Manchester client wins £100,000, smallest, 5p, wins £250!
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Ukip,who opened at 3/1,now 4/5 favs to win Stoke on Trent Central by- election, attracting 59.5% of all bets; 74.3% of money gambled.
#Ukip
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Approached by US mag asking for help with a tennis-related article they're planning, about which I have expert knowledge they need but don't have. I asked about a fee, only to be told they couldn't pay me 'for ethical reasons.' I won't be helping 'for financial reasons'.
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Christmas Eve always somewhat manic, but when I got chance to read this paper, my memory immediately recalled the brilliant
@LutonTown
achievement from 1990 - THIRTY years as Champions! Merry Xmas all fellow Hatters.....
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Chris Cook in today's
@RacingPost
- 'there's something artificial and unhealthy about wholesale attempts to clamp down on gambling. A little flutter is normal, natural, educational and, for lots of folk, enormous fun.' Hear, hear!
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Can't help feeling a little depressed that,having spent 46 working years promoting
@WilliamHill
brand/odds in UK & also USA (Who Shot JR?/Presidential Elections/NFL) there must be at least a chance of the 86 year old name vanishing from the UK market by this time next year.
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21 years ago today David 'Screaming Lord' Sutch died, aged 59. Here I am with him + current
@Official_MRLP
leader Alan Hope,'Madame' Cynthia Payne; Lord Tiverton; my then PR guru Tim Moss &, I think, Freddie Zapp, at Loony Party Conference at Golden Lion, Ashburton, the Party hq.
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Re-reading these two books to remind myself of the seven greatest male characters ever brought to life, in perhaps the finestTV series of all,
@aufwiedpet
.
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Richard Kay, in today's Mail, writes that Piers Corbyn 'made a living from betting on the weather'. I took those bets. It would have been a frugal living.
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£5 bet wins £45,865.05;Odds of 9172/1; 30 year old Lancashire punter.Kept nerve throughout WBA-Everton game & did not cash out.......
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How many years since there was a League table in which
@LutonTown
were above
@WatfordFC
? I've no idea, but it was a blooming long time ago, & it may well be a long time until it happens again, so I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts, even if it is only alphabetical!
#COYH
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Maradona's 'Hand of God' 'goal' was responsible for the first major bookie 'concession' when I asked then
@WilliamHill
MD if we could 'disallow' it by also reimbursing all draw punters. He agreed. It was big news & Daily Mirror lead story (written by
@campbellclaret
!) next day.
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@agnes_guano
Ah, no......that's really sad - only Bolam left of the great Likely Lads trio.........what a shame.....
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Happy 60th Birthday betting shops! Today's the day in 1961 that betting shops - many of which had in fact already existed clandestinely - became legal. Without them, I'd have had a very different working life!
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Thirty seven years ago today the first episode of what would turn out to be the greatest tv comedy drama ever screened, launching several great characters and careers, was broadcast. Brilliantly written, cast and acted, 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' will just never be beaten.
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Very grateful for this generous gesture by
@StarSports_Bet
, for who I write a weekly column. They sponsor the Southwell card today, which can be seen on SSR - and the 3.20 is named after my new book, 'PROSTrATE CANCER'........sadly, SSB haven't told me what will win it...
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Leicester's 5000/1 win relegates 2500/1 bet on grandson to play football for Wales,& 1000/1 man to walk on moon bets to 2nd and 3rd place!
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I was at the game & am happy to confirm that neither I nor anyone else in that part of the ground was aware of, heard, or saw any kind of 'racist abuse'. And I've been a journalist for far longer than
@JacquiOatley
.
Let's hope BBC's
@jacquioatley
doesn't ever become a judge, or do jury service! She seems convinced racist abuse took place at a match she didn't attend, and is sniping on Twitter at people who were at this game and object to such false or mistaken allegations. Unprofessional?
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So sorry to hear of the death of the under-appreciated journalist and promoter of horseracing and betting, John McCririck. Underneath all the bluster was a decent, hard working, knowledgeable man who was only ever helpful to me over the years. Thoughts with his wife, Jenny.
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I love the headline on this morning's Metro front page, but have to wonder what percentage of their readership will 'get' the reference. Or does it show the average age of readers is 60+?
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@NHM_London
@JuliaHB1
Enough already of using today's current woke thoughts to criticise what went before; and please also stop telling me what I should think now.....
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Fed up with me celebrating one football result, my better half, Sheila, decided to have her own blooming celebration......!
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US Hall of Fame jockey, Ralph Neves died aged 74 today in 1995. He also died on May 8, 1936 when thrown off his horse at Bay Meadows & trampled on. The racecourse doc pronounced him dead, but a morgue medic injected adrenaline into his heart & revived him. He rode the next day.
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Well done, Wales - every time I see
@harrywilson_
play I'm reminded of taking a £50 bet at 2500/1 from his grandad when Harry was a toddler, that he'd grow up to win a senior football cap for Wales. My
@WilliamHill
bosses weren't quite as chuffed when the bet cost them £125,000!
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Twenty years to the day since he died,and just a week since I attended the funeral of his mate, Lord Toby Jug', this morning I visited the final resting place of my much missed friend & founder of
@Official_MRLP
,David 'Screaming Lord' Sutch. RIP.
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This man edited NME and Q. He knows music inside out and is a huge collector of vinyl records.....he also wrote the foreword to my new book - we all know someone who'd love it for Christmas...….
Out now. Despite the slapdash foreword,
@sharpeangle
's new book about the fun, frustration and low-level insanity of record collecting (as well as the unique aroma of record shops!) is just fantastic. If you know an old head, stick it in their stocking!
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Touching to see club scarf belonging to the late, popular, long-term Stones' supporter and club helper, Miriam Goodman on the barrier behind the goal
@WealdstoneFC
are defending.
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A 53yo William Hill client from Wigan backed all 6 of Gordon Elliott's Navan winners today to win £10,877.28 for his 5p Lucky 63 bet.
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Watching a
@LutonTown
team with a one-time
@WealdstoneFC
keeper between the sticks, and leading Chelsea at half time. Never dreamed that might happen! Not too worried about 2nd half outcome after experiencing that...!
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I believe this is the lad whose grandad collected £125,000 from William Hill after I took his £50 bet at 2500/1 when Harry was a toddler, that he'd grow up to win a senior cap for Wales. D'oh!
🔥⚽️ Harry Wilson was at it again with an outside of the box double on Saturday...
😲 ...and neither were free-kicks!
🚀 Six of the Derby star's eight goals this season have been from outside the area!
#DCFC
@dcfcofficial
@harrywilson_
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William Hill customer from Blackpool staked a tenner at 285/1 on win double for Bradford and Middlesbro. £2850 better off now.
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Great to catch up with former fellow
@WealdstoneFC
director, Layne Patterson and former ref, Graham Brown, at this afternoon's dramatic turn-round 2-1 win over
@DulwichHamletFC
. When we started watching the Stones our aggregate age was about 25. It is now getting on for 200!
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Morning Star newspaper tipster Alf Rubin, aka, 'Cayton' correctly predicted the winner of a 3 horse race, 4/9 Suhailie - thus finally breaking his unfortunate run of 57 consecutive losing selections.
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As
@WealdstoneFC
have yet to win anything yet this season, how about this look back to a day when we did....!
#COYS
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If this was a bookmaker's ad, they'd no doubt be accused of glamourising betting, & encouraging or enticing young people to become potential problem gamblers. Remember, 16 & 17 year olds can bet on the National Lottery but are banned from betting shops and online sites until 18.
You could be £1M richer when you play EuroMillions this Tuesday with 20 UK millionaires guaranteed! That’s dream💭 come true money!
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An unidentified 'punter' flew in to Hexham racecourse by helicopter today in 1989, then backed 4/5, 2/5, 1/4 & another 1/4 losers, dropping £100,000 in the process, before flying off again.
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A William Hill client has staked £146,000 on Costa Rica to beat Greece in 90m at 6/4, and will collect £365,000 if they do...
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Those who appreciate the occasional 'it happened on this day' pieces I've posted on here, should, I very much hope, enjoy the weekly column I have just begun writing for
@StarSports_Bet
:
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And still BBC News tells viewers: 'If you don't want to know the scores, look away now' only to immediately reads them out loud!
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Crikey,
@david_stewart
writes about the impact of the 'Who Shot JR?' market - thus reminding me that it happened an incredible forty years ago. And all because my wife, Sheila, a fan of 'Dallas', asked me 'Why don't you take bets on who did it?'
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Just finished reading this thought-provoking book by the legendary
@rickyahill
. Essential message for all football fans, & a reminder of one of the finest of all
@LutonTown
players, who even opposition team supporters have described to me as 'sublime'.
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The 'holier than thou' Guardian has reportedly decided to refuse betting advertisements in the 'newspaper' or online. Oddly enough the paper's website still seems to be discussing runners and tips for the Royal Ascot card this afternoon. No double standards there, then!
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Is there anything less sincere, pointless & patronising than a tv sports commentator 'apologising' for 'bad language' from players or fans.
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Unfortunately, my latest book is currently all-too topical. But for any man (& friends/family) wanting, or needing, to know what it means to be diagnosed with prostate cancer - as I was - it contains vital information plus personal experience of the treatments which will follow.
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22 years ago today a late night call from mutual friend, Mary Murray: 'Check Ceefax, David's dead.' She meant our mate, David, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sadly he was. Here we're at a Loch Ness Monster Hunt. Didn't find Nessie, but, as ever David made it fun. RIP.
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Sending support to Wealdstone for their big match today from exiled supporter Steeven Sharpe, still proudly wearing a Stones' shirt, here with daughter Georgia and father-in-law Garth at Lake Taupo, New Zealand.
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Following Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle,William Hill have lengthened their odds for him ever to be PM from 3/1 to 4/1.
#JeremyCorbyn
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Jeremy Corbyn, 25/1 outsider to win Labour leadership race is same odds as John Major when he entered 1990 Tory leader race.
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I fully support the Poppy Appeal, but am irritated by the media's virtue-signalling ,particularly BBC TV,that at a date of THEIR choosing in October, all of their news show presenters and guests MUST wear a poppy. A forced gesture is surely not what the symbolic poppy is about.
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Today in 1994, the Derby began to disappear from many non-racing folk's agendas and memories, as Epsom announced that the race would now be run on Saturdays, from 1995.
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101st minute winner by Dean Cox for Orient clinched the incredible win for Cambridgeshire punter whose £1, ten team acca won £169,923.01.
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15 racecourse bookies sponsored a race at Redcar today in 1993. So far, so good. It was a ladies' race. Well done, supporting female jockeys. But, controversially, the race was named the 'Worth Laying Handicap'. Oddly enough, that didn't endear the sponsors to the participants.
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FA Cup Final: Knowing Lee, Knowing Roo, Zaha!: Chung-Yong Lee, Wayne Rooney and Wilfried Zaha to all score in 90 minutes play – 100/1.
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Legendary punter and owner, the flamboyant, hirsute Terry Ramsden fancied 8/13 favourite Katies - who he'd bought for a reported £500,000 earlier in the year, to win Newmarket's Child Stakes today in 1984, so he staked £70,000 on her. She finished 2nd.
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@MCYeeehaaa
I agree totally with your comments made on
@itvracing
this morning- we have to stand up & support racing- & betting's- rights to exist,properly run of course, but without constantly pandering to obsessive antis who can never be 'appeased' & want ever more concessions.
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George Formby, famed comic actor, ukelele player & singer, had his 3rd & final ride as a jockey today in 1920, finishing unplaced on Old Chris at Catterick.
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Wishing
@HarryIsted1
one of the (very) few to play for both
@LutonTown
and
@Wealdstone_FC
,all the best in goal for
@BarnsleyFC
in today's League 1 play-off final.......
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Congratulations to my former colleague at
@williamhill
,
@racingkate
, on her appointment as Director of Communications for England & Wales Cricket Board. Howzat, indeed!?
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Thoughts with injured keeper
@JonathanNorth
as
@WealdstoneFC
land against-the-odds win at
@BathCity_FC
in play-offs. Well done,Stones.
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Who remembers the day when this game gentleman appeared on TV dribbling a ball as the sensational news broke that
@wealdstonefc
had signed Shearer? Val, a fine gent, was a real star, but our league was not amused & announced they wouldn't let him play!
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Been waiting for this for some while - today's the official publication day for my latest book, 'Vinyl Countdown'.....
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Great to be watching a game tonight that Martin Tyler is at -
@WealdstoneFC
Vs
@wokingfc
but not having to listen to him droning on.....and on....and on...and.....
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So,farewell,then,Brian Matthew, from Sounds of the Sixties. 27 years, and chucked out unceremoniously and against his will. Shocking.
#SOTS
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Looking forward to this book being entered for
@BookiePrize
. Boxing books have frequently performed well in the competition......
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Remember 'Who Shot JR?' The biggest non-sporting betting event ever, which I introduced - I doubt whether that could be emulated now - thanks to the killjoy/do as I say anti-gambling lobby....
👀 | LOOK SHARPE
💬 "But it is my business, and no one else’s, that I choose to spend money in that way.”
In this week’s column,
@sharpeangle
discusses new threats to the betting industry!👇
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A rare chance to watch the mighty
@WealdstoneFC
in National League action tomorrow live on BT Sport against Dagenham, as the Stones defend their lengthy unbeaten record.....& non-fans, please remember, it is pronounced WealdSTONE.....
Just 1️⃣ day till we face Dagenham & Redbridge
AND
it is live on BT Sport, show starts at 5:00pm with kick off at 5:20pm 🤩
Your choices
🏚️ 🍻 📺 Home, Beer, Football
OR
♣️ 🍻 📺
@TheVale_SC
, Beer, Football
#JustTemporary
#LetFansIn
Remember that Wednesday feeling
📸
@Gs250A
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Well, a punter from Altrincham had 80p at 300/1 for 5-0 at half time - 240 quid profit, very nice.
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Just one punter,from Worksop, staked a fiver on Sheffield Wednesday to beat Arsenal 3-0 at 100/1.
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Every time Harry Wilson plays for Wales someone reminds me that when I was at
@WilliamHill
I laid his grandad a bet of £50 at 2500/1 for the then 18month old to play for his country one day. When I drew the cheque for £125,000 one director told me I should be sacked as a result!
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All-weather racing made its UK debut today in 1989 as Lingfield staged a 12 race card, from 11am, sponsored by William Hill, with yours truly making the trophy presentations & wife Sheila judging the Best Turned Outs, so greys with plaited tails started at a huge advantage!
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A SW London-based William Hill client is now £1,093,333.33 better off after staking a world record £900,000 bet on No.
#ScotlandDecides
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Thanks 5 Live sports bulletin for no mention at all of Enable or The Arc or the O'Brien non runners. Honourable mention for weather guy disenfranchising most listeners of certain age, by telling us how much rain has fallen, in millimetres. Means nothing to me, not even in Vienna!
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As far as I recall, it has only happened once before during the 60+ years I've supported
@LutonTown
&
@WealdstoneFC
that they have played each other- a 1-1 draw at Lower Mead many years back. It happens again this evening at Stones' current home, Grosvenor Vale...come on, both!
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You probably don't care, and why should you? But over the next five days - just to give myself something to do- I'll show you my top five vinyl singles. Here's Number 5. Feel free to do likewise...
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May have been happening for a while, but I've only just noticed one of the runners in an ITV7 race is quoted by
@SkyBet
at odds of 3/2. Has someone perhaps complained that good old 6/4 is somehow offensive or sixist,or outlived its usefulness in their opinion?
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Would-be punter has just contacted me - wanting a bet on how many of the 90-plus people currently quarantined in the UK will turn out actually to have the Coronavirus. Sometimes I'm disappointed to be retired....
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Just watched 'To Sir With Love' film, featuring not only superb Sidney Poitier but also Lulu singing brilliant theme song; stunning Adrienne Posta - & in concert, well for two songs, The Mindbenders. Sheer quality from 1967. Loved it then, revere it now!Book by E R Braithwaite.
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Robbie Savage and William Hill CEO James Henderson supporting
#FootballShirtFriday
at Wembley Stadium.
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Very grateful to
@RacingPost
for running this piece today- hope a few of you may find reading it useful:
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As a Hatters' fan I feel I should point out that the first club to have an in-ground betting shop was......Luton Town FC. Gambling is not inherently evil.
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William Hill customer who put £9000 on them to beat Leicester when they went 2-0 up may like to know LVG now 7/2 to go by end of season.
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Taking this as a compliment,having introduced such bets: 'To be fair, it was only William Hill that would take the bet' said Martin Plunkett, whose £25 bet at 500/1 when his nephew, keeper Dean Henderson,who came on for his 1st England cap earlier this month, was 14, won £12,500.
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Gay Future won at Cartmel today in 1974, landing a coup for 'mastermind' Tony Murphy who backed the horse in doubles/treble with two others never intended to run, leaving all the money on the 10/1 shot, at a course with no link to the 'outside world' for bookies to shorten it up.
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Here's a map showing locations of William Hill's twenty five 5000/1 Leicester punters........
#LCFC
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Why should anyone be given the right to tell me how much they are going to 'let' me bet?
👀 | LOOK SHARPE
💬 “How does anyone know how much money I, or any other betting shop client, have to spend, and what business is it of theirs, anyway?”
In this week’s column,
@sharpeangle
discusses affordability checks! 👇
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Bets of 550,000 euros, £183,200 and £150,000 were staked on Hillary Clinton to win with William Hill.
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Eventful race for John 'Lord Oaksey' Lawrence in Plumpton chase today in 1964.Fearing had taken wrong course on Pioneer Spirit, he turned back-to see French Cottage going past him in other direction to win. Oaksey fined £25,went home, ran bath,flooded bathroom, ceiling collapsed.
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Delighted to see
@Official_MRLP
leader and co-founder, Alan Hope, standing at one of last week's elections, & was immediately transported back to attending one of the Party's Summit Meetings back in the day when I sponsored them via
@WilliamHill
. Happy days. RIP David Sutch.
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Crikey - American client of William Hill US won over £900,000 from 85,000 dollar punt on Tiger at 14/1. Sorry about mixed currencies. Bet placed in Southern Nevada, I believe....
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Gentle reminder - should you have been fortunate enough to receive a book token for Christmas, there are still a few copies of this volume available for you to swap it for.....
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Another little glimpse back into the past at Lower Mead for
@WealdstoneFC
fans - I took it, but genuinely have no idea when/who! Can anyone oblige?
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@IanDunt
Seems to be giving you plenty of 'holier than thou' fun at the expense of many decent people who are fully entitled to join whichever Party they wish, regardless of your own patronising views. And, get over it, they WON the Referendum vote
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On the day World War 1 broke out for Britain, today in 1914, there were three flat meetings run, at Birmingham, Ripon, & at Brighton, where Picton won the opener, ridden by jockey Fred Rickaby, later to be killed in action, serving with the Tank Corps in France.
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18 year old, 3lb, apprentice Pat Eddery rode 1001/1 Haydock 5-timer, all for different trainers, today in 1970.
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