A woman who took an ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ attitude has profited from it to the tune of £574,278.41.

The unnamed housewife won the cash on a £1 12-team football accumulator which she only put on because she was fed up with her husband and son watching TV matches every weekend.

There was absolutely no skill involved in how she chose her teams, most of which were odds against outsiders.

Her son read out the games and she chose the 12 teams that she liked the sound of – and there seems to be a B theme.

Carli Faulkner, 38, from William Hill’s Leysdown-on-Sea branch, said this was the biggest wins she’d ever paid out.

She said: ‘It is incredible that the lady got them all up. Usually customers laugh when they see a payout figure on the bottom of their slip like £574,000, but this just goes to show it can happen.

‘They will be having a cracking Christmas and I am delighted for them as it’s real girl power landing a bet like that. My biggest ever payout before this was around £25,000.’

William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said: ‘Apparently, the lady’s husband had been doing the £1 weekend acca since he was 18, so 40 years of practice on football punting.

‘His wife started doing the same bet about six years ago, so she certainly had lady luck on her side as her hubby has never had a win anything like that.

‘It just goes to show if you can’t beat them join them and the payout in this case is absolutely fantastic. We wish them well.

‘In my 15 years in the business working for William Hill I have never encountered a bigger football win by a female punter for just a quid.’

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Richard Hartley-Parkinson

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