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Swansea fan denied £25,000 by rivals Cardiff City

Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:55 am

Swansea fan denied £25,000 on Footie5 game - by rivals Cardiff City


Friday 15th February 2019


Southampton 1 v 2 Cardiff: Neil Warnock delighted with late win


A Swansea fan was denied a £25,000 payout in the new Footie5 game - by arch-rivals Cardiff .

Alun Harris, from Llangyfelach in Swansea, was watching his team beat Millwall 1-0 in the Championship, but was also keeping an eye on the five Premier League matches he had predicted.

He sailed through the first four - Crystal Palace 1-1 West Ham , Huddersfield 1-2 Arsenal , Liverpool 3-0 Bournemouth and Watford 1-0 Everton .

Everything hinged on Alun's prediction for Cardiff to win 1-0 down on the south coast against Southampton and things were looking rosy after Sol Bamba's goal.

Swansea City fan Alun Harris


But it ended in tears as Southampton grabbed a 91st-minute equaliser, with Cardiff immediately going back up the other end to score again.

They won the game 2-1, but Alun had predicted 1-0 to the Bluebirds.

However, despite missing out on the jackpot, Alun did still pick up £667 as a share of the £2,000 on offer for getting four exact scores right.

"I couldn't believe it when Southampton equalised in the 91st minute," said Alun, who is a Parcelforce driver.

He knew the results early evening, but it was a few hours after that he found out exactly what had happened at Southampton in terms of the last-gasp drama.

"I knew I hadn't won the £25,000 them, but I didn't know what happened until about 10.30 on Saturday night," he said. "I could have won £25,000, but that's the way it goes with football."

It is the second time that he has played the great new game Footie 5 and he is a confirmed fan.

"It's fantastic," said Alun. "It makes it more exciting."

And he has already entered for this week's game, which features five FA Cup ties, two of which involve Welsh sides.

He is taking the Swans to beat Brentford 2-0 at the Liberty, and predicts another 6-0 win for Manchester City , this time at Newport County, to follow up their demolition of Chelsea last Sunday.

Footie5 is an exclusive free to play game from thepools.com where players predict five correct match scores to win. Every round has a £25,000 jackpot up for grabs and in the event of a near miss, a prize of £2,000.

Re: Swansea fan denied £25,000 by rivals Cardiff City

Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:13 am

Makes me feel a bit better on my 0-1 Bamba @250/1
Plus of course we won anyway

Re: Swansea fan denied £25,000 by rivals Cardiff City

Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:22 am

Earlier in the season Gylfi Sigurdsson's injury time goal for Everton against Watford to make it 3 nil cost me a share of the Sky Super 6. As it happens I think it would have ben a very small share. There were loads who had 6 two nil results that week

I never get anywhere near it but I also got pretty close last weekend. With 5 minutes to go I had 4 correct scores including ours at 1 nil. I needed Everton score at Watford to make it 1- 1 and West Ham to score at Palace to make it 1-2. In the end Huddersfield would have scuppered it by with their consolation goal against Arsenal.

Re: Swansea fan denied £25,000 by rivals Cardiff City

Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:47 am

That's cute. Cardiff let me down for 11K myself in the past lmao