Weekend Review: Late Spurs goal triggers seven-figure swing for William Hill
William Hill suffered on Sunday as the punters’ top-five most-popular bet selections all won
Tottenham left it late to stick the boot into the bookies as Harry Winks scored a last minute winner to see Spurs beat Fulham in the final Premier League match of the weekend.
Relegation-threatened Fulham looked like pulling off an unlikely draw to ruin Sunday afternoon for the acca-backers before Winks headed home in the 93rd minute.
Yessssss Winkssyyyyy ?
— Harry Kane (@HKane) January 20, 2019
William Hill’s Rupert Adams said the moment of drama resulted in a negative seven-figure swing for the operator: “Sunday was not good with Tottenham’s late winner at Fulham particularly damaging for us.
“The top five most popular selections won on Sunday with the only respite coming from Holland, where PSV Eindhoven and Ajax both failed to win. Overall not a weekend to shout about,” he added.
It was a similar story for bet365, where Steve Freeth highlighted the surprising lack of draws in the Premier League this season.
“It was a losing weekend on the back of that late winner from Harry Winks and a distinct lack of Premier League draws at the moment.
“Watford versus Burnley was the only one, and Cardiff against Huddersfield the weekend before.
“It has been a while since we’ve had a high profile stalemate, which is just an observation, not a complaint, as results have been generally okay throughout the season,” he added.
The Spurs match was also Kindred’s biggest turnover event of the weekend, which resulted in sizeable losses according to the firm’s Ali Gill.
“The Premier League weekend that was looking good until the final seconds of the final game, when Winks popped up to save Spurs and the punters with a last-gasp winner against Fulham,” he said.
“That match was comfortably our biggest turnover and biggest losing event of the weekend and sent this one the way of the players.”
BetVictor’s Charlie McCann continued the theme, adding: “It was not just Fulham fans bemoaning Harry Winks’ late winner for Spurs at Craven Cottage as the result was symbolic of a terrific weekend for football punters across Europe.”
An absolutely unreal day that I'll never forget. Thank you to everyone for all of the support and @desert_classic for an incredible week! pic.twitter.com/SKJPZz3Erx
— Adam Long (@aLongShot) January 21, 2019
Away from the football, Kindred punters also enjoyed a good weekend of racing after Ballymoy’s victory in the Matchbook Holloway’s Handicap, while bet365 did well in the golf.
Bet365’s Freeth said: “We had some good results in the golf, with 50/1 Shane Lowry in Abu Dhabi and an absolute pre-game skinner in the shape of 600/1 shot Adam Long in the Desert Classic.”