I won
once.

Euro 96. Football fever gripped England and Ladbrokes wanted in on the action. They decided that what the nation really wanted was to play fantasy football. For cash.

The competition was organised thusly: £5 to enter, a prize of £25 to the winner at each branch and a prize of £1000 to the outright winner. Suspect Ladbrokes pocketed about £5m and paid out about £30k...

It just so happened that my bird was managing a small Ladbrokes branch and couldn't be bothered with this extra gimmick so didn't put out the signs or entry slips. She did inform me, however, and I and some other geezer who asked about it were the only entrants.

I won £25!

All legit and above board of course.

Edit: though she did show me the other bloke's entry and I was glad to see he'd picked Cantona who wasn't even in France's squad.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Tue 12 May 2009, 14:14, Reply)