He Bet £50 On His Baby Grandson
put your money where your mouth is: to spend or risk your own money to prove you really mean what you say
Every grandparent believes their grandchild is special. Very few put their money where their mouth is. Peter Edwards was watching his eighteen-month-old grandson Harry chase a ball across the carpet. The boy couldn’t even walk, but somehow Edwards just knew that Harry would play football for Wales one day, and he wanted to bet on it. He went into the William Hill betting shop in Wrexham and admitted he had no idea how to place a bet like that. The manager contacted the company’s London office for him. The odds came back at 2,500 to 1, and Edwards put down fifty pounds.
On 15 October 2013, Wales played Belgium. Edwards watched his grandson Harry Wilson come onto the pitch. He was just sixteen years old, the youngest player Wales had ever picked. Edwards collected one hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds and retired a year early. “Not bad for a daft bet,” he said.
Edwards’s first bet sounded so crazy that the bookie probably never imagined they’d lose that much money on it. But it could have been worse for them. When Harry was twelve, Edwards went back to the same betting shop and tried to wager even more money on his grandson. They wisely said no.
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