Celtic win null and void if they’re awarded Scottish Premiership title next week, claims world’s biggest bookie
THE world’s biggest bookmaker will NOT pay out on Celtic being crowned Scottish Premiership champions if they are awarded the title next week.
Bet365 have already announced they won’t pay out on the SPFL’s decision to declare the lower leagues over.
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Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers were announced as the winners of the Championship, League One and League Two after a protracted clubs vote was eventually carried, with Partick Thistle and Stranraer relegated.
League bosses are waiting on a UEFA Executive Committee meeting next week with their 55 nations.
But it looks almost certain to make Celtic nine-in-a-row champions, with Hearts set to be relegated unless there is league reconstruction.
Thousands of Scottish football punters placed antepost bets on the outcomes of the title race, relegation, Top Six and Bottom Six, as well as top scorers and team match bets for the season.
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Most bookmakers waited until the threat of legal action from clubs had subsided before settling bets and the majority of them have paid out on the final league placings as per the SPFL vote.
However, bet365 – who have 45 million customers globally, making them the largest bookmakers in the world – have declared antepost bets void.
The Stoke-based firm say they have decided to void all bets in accordance with their rules which state ‘for settlement purposes in divisional betting, the finishing positions of teams at the end of the scheduled programme of matches will determine places.’
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They have also pointed out their rules were in place at the start of the season, but have settled bets on Dundee United and Cove Rangers as league winners as a ‘goodwill gesture’ after both sides ran up huge leads at the top of their leagues.
But any punter who bet on Raith Rovers to win League One or any other season-long bet will have their wager voided.
And if Celtic are announced as Premiership winners next week, the biggest bookies on the planet won’t recognise it.
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