Man turns 50p into £10,000 winning ‘biggest football accumulator ever’

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A foottball fan has won more than £10,000 from a 50p 37-fold accumulator dubbed "the biggest ever". During the international break, the unnamed man from Accrington placed the 50p bet on matches played in the women's football divisions and other worldwide leagues.

He backed the same two markets across the accumulator 33 times. They targeted 'Over 1.5 First Half goals' 23 times and 'Under 2.5 Second Half goals' 10 times, with the remaining selection being 'Under 2.5 Total Goals' in the Boca Juniors de Cali vs Atletico FC game, which concluded with Boca emerging 2-0 winners, the Mirror reports. READ MORE: Residents blast 1am karaoke and boozy antics under controversial pub teepee The total odds of the acca being successful were 20,678/1.

But by some miracle, the he opened his Ladbrokes betting app to find £10,339.61 waiting for him. Alex Apati, a spokesperson for Ladbrokes, said: "This punter has landed the biggest acca we've ever seen. "At 20,678/1, and to the tune of just over £10.3k from a 50p stake, it will almost definitely go down as the best bet of the season. "What's even more remarkable is that the monster acca landed with relative ease...

bar a late scare in the Arsenal v Valerenga game as the hosts scored two late goals, and squeaky bum time in the Muncipal Perez Zeledon v Santos de Guapiles after an 86th minute strike. "Amazingly there was little to no drama we could see across the rest of the matches in question." No selection was priced at higher than 3/4, but the fact that they backed close to three dozen matches saw the odds skyrocket through the roof.