QUIRKY WORLD: Gambler upsets the odds to earn £30,000 as football’s underdogs have their day

ENGLAND: An online customer made an unusual football prediction over the weekend to scoop £30,000 pounds from a £5 bet.

QUIRKY WORLD: Gambler upsets the odds to earn £30,000 as football’s underdogs have their day

After a weekend of surprising football results, most accumulators had folded — but one shrewd customer managed to correctly predict five upsets with bookmaker Coral.

The customer, from Durham, selected Crystal Palace to beat Chelsea, West Ham to beat Liverpool, and West Bromwich Albion to beat Stoke in the Premier League, and Leeds to beat Derby, and Cardiff to beat Nottingham Forest in the Championship to scoop the £30,000 windfall.

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