Before the days of the Lottery....The Pools

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Anyone remember that?

My Dad used to do that a lot, so back in the day and after a while he convinced me try it, this is a true story and my very first time doing this and long ... long before the National Lottery started up, there was a guy came round weekly selling these coupons door to door I think it was?
Anyway, there were two company's back then ... at least two? Vernons and Littlewoods? but for some reason my daft old Dad was convinced Vernons paid better and was better option?

So Thats what I tried, Vernons and lo and behold when the numbers were announced It seemed I had a winning match ... asked my Dad to check ... who had never won in his life and here was me on my first attempt with a winning combination of numbers ... he was like a wee kid in excitement, most embarrassing really :)
I only won about £125 back then, but I discovered later that if I had played Littlewoods Pools with same random numbers it would have been in excess of £600 ... I was a bit miffed LOL.

Back in early 80's that would be a good wee decent first time win I guess :)
 
Feek says numbers and question mark, he'll be right, never was a betting man myself, its how I remember it.

Mention of Spot the ball here, LOL, local guy up here in the North actually won on Motorcycles News version of spot the ball a brand new Kawasaki Z1300, spoke to the guy on day he won it and he was quite calm about it ... 1980 Aberdeen, awesome :)
 
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