FOOTBALL POOLS.
Headache For Promoters.
London, February 6. Britain’s £1,000,000-a-week “football pools” industry was set a new problem last Saturday. One of the tasks which pool supporters are asked to carry out is to pick, from a selected list of matches, four teams which they expect to win away from home. On Saturday no English League or Cup team won away from home and only five sides in Scotland. As a result, one pool firm found itself in the unprecedented position of having no win in its “away” list. This pool is automatically rendered null and void under the rules of the Pool Promoters’ Association. The seven other major firms running “away pools” were indebted to a Scottish club, Partick Thistle, for providing the one away win on their lists.
But even so, the position was unprecedented. Four away wins are required, and one was the most which any entrant could get right. The decision was to pay on one correct forecast out of four.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 2
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165FOOTBALL POOLS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 2
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