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03 June 2006
The £1 Million Per Hour
World Cup Gamble
Bookmakers
William
Hill say that
gamblers having a flutter on the World Cup will wager over
one million pounds during every hour of the tournament on
the way to a record-breaking one billion pound betting
bonanza.
"The World Cup will
shatter every known betting record, with British bookmakers
alone taking over £1 billion - double the turnover from
the 2002 event and resulting in customers staking
£1.3million every hour of the tournament" said William
Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.
And with a considerable
percentage of that money being bet on England, the bookies
fear that a World Cup triumph for Sven's men will leave them
badly out of pocket.
"If England go all the way
we will be cheering patriotically with the fans but nursing
badly bruised wallets as we face a substantial seven figure
payout already which can only increase the further they go
in the competition."
And William Hill could
take an early hit if the optimistic feeling about Wayne
Rooney's chances of playing in the World Cup are relaised -
William Hill now make him 8/13 to play and 6/5 not to - also
offering 25/1 that he makes his first appearance actually in
the World Cup Final.
"Punters have stayed
consistently optimistic about Rooney's chances of making it
to the World Cup and with bets of up to £1000 a time
struck we are likely to pay out a six figure sum if he is
passed fit", said Sharpe. "And some people are now
expressing the theory that the whole Rooney saga has been an
elaborate hoax and he has never really been unfit - we have
seen a real gamble on him starting the opening game against
Paraguay and have slashed the odds about that from 80/1 to
11/2."
Latest William Hill World
Cup odds: 9/4 Brazil; 13/2 England; 8/1 Argentina; Germany;
Italy; 12/1 France, Holland, Spain; 20/1 Portugal; 33 Czech
Rep; 40 sweden; 50 Ivory Coast; Mexico; 66 Croatia, Ukraine;
80 USA; Australia; 100 Poland, Serbia; 150 Switzlnd; 200
Japan; Paraguay; S Korea; 250 Ghana; 400 Ecuador; Tunisia;
500 Togo; Iran; Costa Rica; 750 Angola; Saudi A; 1000
Trinidad-Tobago.
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