It's about mid 1970s and I am trainer manager at an independent and one of the managers who I worked with was heavily into gambling and the float, likeable chap though,spit of Rigsby from Rising Damp. Every morning he would be there, Sporting Chronicle & Sporting life strewn on his desk studying form. Anyway one day he phones all the managers saying I have had a dream that this horse wins @ 10/1, the horse was called Billy Liar (I think), anyway all the managers have a tickle and sure enough this thing wins @ 10/1......only to get chucked out in the stewards. All the managers are phoning him up giving him loads of greif and he says "The fcuking missus, I'm gonna kill her, she woke me uo before the weigh in!!"

Nice to see AM I TOO EARLY, sevenone, Big Charlie, JackCole, SqueezeFirmly and mr winkle back.

Hilarious thread

lol pumpy

may have put this story on the dodgiest betting shop fred  ,memories not as good as it once was  but hers the gist of it  , back in the 1980s or early 90s , I got lumbered with a dodgy £20, I must have been well pissed or stoned or probably both  when I was passed it as it was such a bad forgery that stevie fookin wonder would have refused it , anyway I attempted  to do  the right thing and repatriate it but it was no fooking good no fecker would take it shops, pubs, bookies, kebab shops , I tried the lot all to no avail . after a while I gave up flogging a dead horse no one would take the dodgy score so just  kept it in my wallet.
one day I was in my local bookies  with a mate and think we n had done our  dough and was as bored as fook so decided to have a bit of fun with the moody score ,got my mate to sit on the benches facing me while I  put the £20 note on the floor and stood on it making sure my boot had about 80% covered with just a tantalising portion of the score on show under my boot I was also leaning against the waist high benches that you write the bets out on and holding on to the bench gave me a good steady pressure on the £20  note,  the plan was as soon as there was any interest in the £20  my  mate would give me a  signal .e he would raise one of those betting shop pens to his mouth if any interest was shown in the score .
sure enough after a few minuets the signal goes up and we have action ,some dodgy bastard has dropped his newspaper on the floor right by my foot and he is making out to pick it up and leaning against me trying to get me to move so he can get the score but I am sitting tight and can feel the fooker tugging on the score trying to release it but I just increased the pressure on my foot and sat tight pretending to be  watching the racing on the screens after a few mins the dodgy  fooker gave up ,but it wasn't over as a few minuets later  he tried a different tactic  ,he is standing by the racecards on the wall and says to me in an attempt to get me to move ,"excuse me can you tell me what the favourite is in the 3.15 as I haven't brought my glasses with me and cant see properlly ..............i says sorry mate cant help ya i cant read .to cut a long story short this went on for ages with a few different dodgy fookers trying to nick the score,not one of the fookers had the decency to say "excuse me mate buti think you have dropped a score on the floor  !  ........... just goes to show what a fookin dishonest lot punters are ! fookin disgrace imo

Great story Foyle. I bet you got more than £20 of enjoyment out of it.

Foyle

I been absent from the forum for some time due to various reasons having got back to some normallity logged in to see this  grand old thread was still going strong,your posting of the dodgy note episode was probably one the funniest i have ever read on here and believe me i have read a few the smile on my face and laughter was a lovely tonic.Thankyou

Foyle

I been absent from the forum for some time due to various reasons having got back to some normallity logged in to see this  grand old thread was still going strong,your posting of the dodgy note episode was probably one the funniest i have ever read on here and believe me i have read a few the smile on my face and laughter was a lovely tonic.Thankyou

Hello Huggy, chin up mate.

This was a great thread when it first appeared, the bloke who thought of it must have been a genius.

The original ran for quite a while but was taken off by moderators 10 years ago.   

Well worth a read for newcomers, these are from (mostly) ex-betting shop managers from all over the UK, and include stories from racecourses in Oz.

I don't think TSO found it funny though. Would have been his biggest ever lift in a bookies.

This tremendous thread would be gratefully received on the horse racing forum

.

i knew a kid who worked in a mecca shop in church lane east finchley.
this was a pokey little shop and the manager/settler would be in a back room and no one could see him.
well this kids sitting there oblivious to whats going on when the cashier starts screaming so manager runs out to witness the board man standing on a ladder with his trousers round his ankles having a handy shandy whilst some old dear is writing out a bet.
to make matters worse there was a horse called rix-woodcock running at the same time and a couple of punters were shouting give it some **** and of course the boardman blows his beans and showers the old dear.
manager calls area office and they dont believe him and think hes been drinking.
after an investigation they sack the boardman.
2 weeks later police call mecca and enquire about boardman as he got a job in a petrol station and one night a girl pulled in and he run out from behind the counter stark bollok naked saying let me fill you up.
and i am sure meccas slogan was where the customer comes first

Almost spat my beer out.

.
http://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/27602321/dodgiest-uk-betting-shops?pg=2

Glimmer's JK Rowling moment

ttt

ttt

You mean characters like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3aDO8P-BAM

A want me munny back. How many times did he say that. Feckin mug givin punters a bad name.

the even funnier thing is aka - someone put birmingham actually beat
liverpool that weekend so all the time he had a winner in his hand

Probably best thread ever to appear on the betfair forum