New Betting Scandal!!

[The Fish Seller 0]

It is understood that FIDLA the financial authority which oversees and polices the Worlds major online betting exchanges has reported another large betting irregularity to the football League and that the matter has also been placed into the hands of the specialist investigative agency formed to monitor criminal cases of match fixing and money laundering through sports betting.The claims are said to surround Saturdays match at Carrow Road between Championship strugglers Norwich and local pub team “Athletico three legged donkey and firkin”.It has been alleged that Ringland resident Albert “Old Bor” Felthorpe placed a bet of £2 on Norwich to win 2-1 and Cureton to score the first goal at odds of 28 to 1 (a return of nearly £60 if successful) at a local ‘Fuller & Satchels  bookmakers shortly before kick off.Spokesman Spencer Stevens explains what happened.At Fuller Satchels we pride ourselves on the integrity of all bets placed and to this end we use some of the Worlds most advanced software to analyse each bet as it is placed in a constant search for irregularities and anomalies. It quickly became apparent that the bet placed by a Customer in our Bowthorpe branch merited further investigation since this was not only the first time in over three years we have laid a bet on Norwich to win but it also included the extremely unlikely eventuality that Cureton would score the first goal. We suspect that any person placing a bet of this nature must have been made party to inside information of some kind and we are confident that the investigating authorities will get to the bottom of the matter. We pride ourselves on being a community bookmakers and I commend the actions of the Store cashier who first alerted us to the fact that a complete stranger had walked in and placed such a substantial bet on Norwich to win.Speaking from across the garden gate Mr. Felthorpe this morning read the following statement to the crowd of Journalists amassed outside his home.“ I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Ethel won £20 on the Bingo on Thursday and when our daughter took us up to Sainsburys on Saturday morning Ethel thrust a fiver in my hand and told me to have a blowout. I simply nipped to the pub for a pint of mild and only having £2 and 12 pence left as change chose to pop into the bookies next door and have a little flutter. I have followed the Canaries for over 70 years so I guess it was just loyalty to them which caused me to place that particular bet, I mean I didn’t really expect them to win, it was just a bit of a joke really”.