Best football bet ever? Punter wins £158k from 60p accumulator

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By Mitch Wilks

Published May 3, 2022

One football punter has won £158k from a 60p accumulator betting on 16 Premier League and Championship games.

Throwing a couple of quid, sometimes even less, on a rather hopeful accumulator of football fixtures is a hopeless endeavour for most fans.

Plenty of us try, most of us fail. That all changed for one punter, though, as their obscene, 16-fold accumulator reeled in winnings of £158,000 this week, from a 60p stake.

No, really.

At odds of 263,109/1, the lucky player had zero right to be taking anything back from their 60p. If anything, it was odds on for others to be betting that his bet had no chance of coming in.

But alas, it did. The Liverpool Echo report that the punter, using Ladbrokes, had bet on all 16 games across the Premier League and the Championship on Saturday, hence the mammoth odds they were given.

It always feels like a risk to bet on the Premier League's early kick-off, but Liverpool emerged victorious against Newcastle, to give the punter's bet some much-needed momentum.

It wasn't as smooth sailing as it sounds, though. Having Burnley to beat Watford and Crystal Palace to triumph at Southampton resulted in a real scare, with both games at risk of sabotaging the accumulator. Fortunately, though, Burnley managed to wipe out Watford's late equaliser through Josh Brownhill, while Wilfried Zaha struck in injury time to keep the ambitious bet alive. Talk about holding your nerve.

Resisting the urge to 'cash out' throughout Saturday as the price fluctuated must have been torture for the punter, who was chasing down six figures despite placing the bet with a stake that wouldn't even buy you anything from McDonald's.

Burnley kept a lucky punter's 16-fold accumulator alive

WATFORD, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Josh Brownhill of Burnley celebrates after scoring their team's second goal during the Premier League match between Watford and Burnley at Vicarage Road on April 30, 2022 in Watford, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

The punter held strong, though, and cruised over the finish line as Manchester City thumped Leeds 4-0 to secure a nauseating prize purse. Quoted by the Liverpool Echo, Alex Apati from Ladbrokes said:

"Our punter has played an absolute blinder here, correctly predicting the outcome of all 16 games in the top two tiers of English football on Saturday - and we've no doubt some of their winnings will be spent on a Wilfried Zaha shirt after the Palace man's dramatic winner kept the bet alive.

"What makes the acca even more impressive is that there was just one draw across all 16 games, and our customer managed to pick it out; truly remarkable stuff and we're delighted for them."

A genuinely miraculous bet, and one that could be life-changing for the punter. Here's the bet slip that secured the prize.