Irish Bookmaker Offers Charity Bet to Swansea City’s Jason Scotland
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009To celebrate bookie Paddy Power’s exclusive shirt sponsorship of Swansea City in the FA Cup this weekend the bookie is offering Swansea striker Jason Scotland a £250 charity bet on how long it takes him to score against Fulham.
Much will ride on the in-form striker from Trinidad to get the goals for Swansea on Saturday and the bookmaker is backing their man to get the job done.
Should Scotland get a goal in the first 15 minutes of the game at 11/2 the bookie will be writing a cheque to the NSPCC for £1,625. No matter what time Scotland gets on the scoresheet the Irish will be paying out.
“Swansea have made a great name for themselves this season with their quality football as well as knocking out Cup holders Portsmouth in the previous round. But it’s not just us at Paddy Power who think The Swans can knock out another Premier League team by beating Fulham this weekend, the punters are piling on the Welsh win too”, a spokersperson for the bookie said.
Swansea go into the match as the betting company’s 6/4 favourites for the win with Fulham 9/5.
Shirt Sponsor Becomes Reality
Former Miss Wales and Big Brother babe Imogen Thomas is also showing her support for her team The Swans and is sporting one of just 50 exclusive Paddy Power Swansea shirts being made for the game.
The shirts worn by the players in the match will be auctioned off by the club after the game with proceeds going to the NSPCC.
ITV Clanger
The lunchtime match will be ITV’s first FA Cup showing since missing THAT goal in the Everton versus Liverpool clash last week. The bookmaker is offering 25/1 that Steve Ryder and the boys drop the ball again and miss showing a live goal during the match.
If the last goal of the match is a header, Paddy Power will refund all losing 1st/last goalscorer, correct score and scorecast singles on this game.