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Since the 2006/7 season, before every Sheff U match, I have backed a fiver on Sheff U ht/ Opposition Ft. I put my bet up as soon as possible, just a tick under the lowest 'LAY' price, and if its still not matched by match day, will just back at whatever odds are available.
The bet has only been a winner twice in those 5 years (Norwich A last season & yesterday at home to Oldham)
3 times in those five years I have forgotten to get the bet matched before kick-off.
Once I saved myself a fiver (Charlton H 2 years ago).
One match was the Norwich game - but having got home I found £3 had been matched - was still pissed off with myself
And yesterday nothing was matched (anyone know what sort of price I could have expected to get the bet matched at around 1pm?)
Still seething now...
Anyone got any sob stories of their own?
The bet has only been a winner twice in those 5 years (Norwich A last season & yesterday at home to Oldham)
3 times in those five years I have forgotten to get the bet matched before kick-off.
Once I saved myself a fiver (Charlton H 2 years ago).
One match was the Norwich game - but having got home I found £3 had been matched - was still pissed off with myself
And yesterday nothing was matched (anyone know what sort of price I could have expected to get the bet matched at around 1pm?)
Still seething now...
Anyone got any sob stories of their own?
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i had charlie adam to score anytime yesterday he had the ball to take the penalty then that donkey durk kyut took it off him then of course he missed unbeleivable.
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Reading that was bad enough
Another 40 seconds I've lost forever |
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feck me those aint sob stories ffs
when Wilsford fell on debut when 30 lengths clear at the last fence it cost me £170 GRAND didn't even fall, just jinked at the fence and unseated the rider (Ben de Haan) that's a fcking sob story |
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But what a Horse judo, I was at Uttox for the national .
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* midland
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had 3 winners running onto it at 11s, 12s and 14s
 horse was a machine |
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170 Grand??? Oh my... Yes, that certainly is a sob story! No wonder you turned to judo.
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lololol
had already been doing judo 20 years by then |
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judorick 04 Mar 12 22:59
feck me those aint sob stories ffs when Wilsford fell on debut when 30 lengths clear at the last fence it cost me £170 GRAND didn't even fall, just jinked at the fence and unseated the rider (Ben de Haan) that's a fcking sob story ____________ Grand ?? there's nothing grand about losing £170 imo |
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remember many years ago putting a 15 timer on the 2 balls in the final round of a major, somewhere between £20 and £40 just for fun, but remember the potential win was 20k
First couple won then third one lost (had furyk to beat sutton and he lost by 1 shot i think) Checked the results just for a laugh the next day and found out all the other ****s had won aaaargh |
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The bet has only been a winner twice in those 5 years
Why the ferkkkkkk are you still doing it then  |
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^ he is hoping to be called the_optimist in due course
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he could just call himself Damnn_it_Mist
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I won my wife in a poker game
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6-7 years ago through the night i was smoking a few fatwas and stuck 50 quid into my betfair account to p
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6-7 years ago through the night i was smoking a few fatwas and stuck 50 quid into my betfair account to pi ss about with.
gambled on a range of things and got up to £500 12 hours later and stuck it on a 0-0 correct score premiership game @ 9/1, just before having a tug and going to bed. goal was scored in the first minute. |
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i never seethe that much about a bet as its leisure, not a business. ive probably had a few accas never far away from a 4-5 figure win..... so near is as good as not at all.
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sniff
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Once had a £20 stright placepot line at Sandown in the the bookies,it kopped and the next day went in to collect my winnings (£700 plus).The manager told me it was a loser,i checked my ticket and in one of races i had put the wrong number down(6 instead of 7)
(if the 6 horse would of placed a sleeper for £700 in Mr Hills pocket) |
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As an Oldham fan I am still struggling to see how with a stack of injuries , a scoring drought , no away wins since September & up against a club in 3rd place how on earth we came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at their manor.
Safe to say the odds on SU / Oldham ht/ft must have been very tasty , unlucky . |
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Valentine's Day 1990
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i backed st helens yesterday at match odds they lost by a point 17-16.
However on seeing the highlights on sky Brough the Huddersfield kicker attempted to kick a conversion, the ball hit the upright cannoned across the goal , hit the other upright bounced down onto the crossbar and dropped over the bar scoring 2 points to kill the bet. I would wager my house and every penny ive got that , that is the first time in history that a rugby ball in either code since the game has been invented has hit all 3 bars on a rugby post and scored a goal.It wasnt a million to one it was a trillion to one...cost me 1200. |
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I backed Damon Hill to win the Hungarian GP in 1997. Got 33/1 with Corals and he was about 30 seconds clear with 2 laps to go until a hydraulic problem resulted in a DNF
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Actually, just checking back he did finish, 2nd to Villeneuve, which just goes to show how far he was in front when he broke down
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Maybe not a 'sob story',but a great 'what if ' for me.
Prior to his first outing in his first year out of novice chases I placed £50 at 50/1 on Barton Bank to win the Gold Cup.He then went on to win the Charlie Hall,an intermediate chase at Sandown and the King George,from 3 races. The bet was placed on a credit account and in order to reinstate my credit I sent the bookmaker a cheque.They asked me which bets I wanted the money credited against so I said that of Barton Bank and some others.This was in February when the horse was priced at about 6/1 for the Gold Cup.Anyway,I was surprised to receive an ante-post voucher stating that I had a further £50 at 50/1.I thought,'that's interesting,let's see what happens'. The horse didn't run after the King George and one week before Cheltenham,when best priced at 5/1,burst a blood vessel and so missed the race. I subsequently received a statement claiming that I'd had two losing £50 bets at 50/1.I got this corrected,quite readily but had the horse won the race I would have been paid 100/1 on a 5/1 shot.  |
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As a pup too young to gain access to the bookies, I used to hang around outside our local office and get the regulars to put my bets on for me. It's Oaks day and I've been thru the race and can't see anything beating All At Sea, but at even money, there's not a lot of point for my 5 quid paper round money, so I decide to have £2-50 e/w on User Friendly. I'm sitting outside waiting for a familiar face when a £20 comes wafting out of the door. I put my foot on it and wait the requisite amount of time for someone to come rushing out to claim it (a period best measured by the boffins/imbeciles at CERN....
 ). With no takers, I trouser it and moments later a familiar face comes by. I fully intended sticking with my original bet, but for some reason the words, "Will you stick us £25 on All At Sea?" came tumbling out. The rest is obvious.......... Like anyone else I've got hard luck stories galore to relate since, but that one has always stuck. My first taste of what was to come. |
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women scoop6 bonus
told papers she was on fav for 500k bonus went to race-course(first time)---on tv--started talking verbal dia-rea about weight/track going---so called experts must of got her to switch pick at course----should of stayed at home. fav ROPMED it |
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Can't rembember how much i lost but Grand National day i had doubles and trebles Blitzkriek (Grey Irish 2 mile chaser) Morley Street and Garrison Savannah (The Grand National)i hate Seagram.Nothing personal i will get over it, still trying to get over Direct Route being beat Edredon Bleu at Cheltenham.My favourite backed Hussar Collanges all season except when he won the RSA at 33/1, how pleased i was for his connnectios.
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Some years ago, I backed Kenny Miller to score the first and last goal in the match for Wolves away to Crewe.
Miller scored twice in a 4-0 win....yes... the 2nd and 3rd goals..... |
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I sold the shirt numbers in a game where No. 99 scored.
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I backed Dayjur in that US race when he "jumped the shadow". I backed Crimson Embers at Cheltenham, when Rose Ravine nearly knocked it into the stand to pip it at the post, and Im sure the fact that they were both owned and trained by the same people influenced the stewards not to disqualify it.
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If i`d been alive theres no doubt I would have been on Devon Loch.....
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I backed the Lions to cover the spread, and they were, it was the last play of the game and they had the ball, so they either score or the next time the ball goes dead its game over, they had a pass intercepted which was ran in for a try.
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St Helens have killed me on a last play of the game, I backed the draw at half time in an NFL game - the game was tied seconds left in the half one team on its own 15 yard line - a lineman yes a lineman had a pass hit him in the chest it stuck and he waddled in to score...
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Not that I`m bitter and twisted or anything....
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I backed Washington to beat the Harlem Globetrotters,they were due
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I backed 17 losers in a row at my local dog track Catford in the mid 80's. At least three were odds on and my very own dog won at 7/1 during that run and I never had a shekel on him.
Nobody believed me and thought I had landed an off course coup by making it known in the ring I was backing the trainers other one in the race to bang out the price but I truthfully never had a bean on mine. What a sickening night that was |
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Changed my mind on the scoop 6 bonus race cost me 93 grand
and backed a horse caleed royal seaton at ascot waited 2 years for it to run on heavy ground had 1k eway at 33-1 henry cecil beat it with a sangster horse around the 90 mark that ended up winning a group 2 in france on heavy ground. A nice story backed a bitch for the greyhound oaks at 150-1 100-1anti post and 50-1 semi final stage purly queen she won the final at 14-1 on finals night. |