Costly carnage as Santa returns for bookies

I’m sure the majority of wallets were thin after Douvan’s collapse, writes Anthony Daly.

Pat Keane rightly sounded the warning signs and flashed the red sirens on these pages yesterday morning. ‘Proceed with extreme caution’ was the headline on Pat’s piece. He was right.

It was carnage for the punters. Utopia for the bookies. I’d say lads took such a hiding that they felt like going to the hospital A&E. Even Nostradamus, if he was still around, would have taken a belting.