If you believe everything that the bookies say then the past fortnight has been a nightmare period for them with huge betting losses incurred for both their racing and football departments.
It all started earlier this month when the weekends football action saw 22 out of 23 short favourites obliging across the 4 main English leagues – resulting in numerous stories of multiple accas coming in and some big pay-outs.
This was then followed up on Wednesday when infamous racing trainer Barney Curley pulled off a massive betting ‘coup’ with 4 very well backed winners.
Yet despite all of this, I don’t feel one iota of pity for them, simply because there is a lot more than meets the eye with these stories.
So without further ado, here are my 6 reasons on why we shouldn’t have sympathy for bookies…