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Cristiano Ronaldo betting avalanche

April 19th, 2007

Bookmaker suspends PFA betting

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has suspended betting on this season’s PFA Player of the Year award after an ‘avalanche’ of bets on favourite Cristiano Ronaldo. The Manchester United midfielder opened betting as the 4/9 favourite, but caused the bookmaker to cancel betting after the number of bets, including ‘several substantial four figure sums’ drove his price down to 1/10 in less than 24 hours.

“We tried to keep the market open as long as possible but punters just kept coming for the Portu-geezer,” said a Paddy Power spokesperson. “A Ronaldo win will certainly cost us but we’re hardly the first to have been put on our backsides by his wizardry this season.”