2016/2017 Champions League

[LCFC'sGodWears9]

You won't find anything online because this year's competition is yet to be completed. You'd need to find a friendly bookie who would give you his best guestimate - and probably a bookie that wasn't stung too badly by our recent 5000/1 miracle.

Does anyone know if you can get odds on us winning it yet?

Yes you can, under Leicester City specials on SkyBet and there is also a coupon for the 16/17 CL competition.

 

[bocadillo]

Yes you can, under Leicester City specials on SkyBet

So to get same odds as last season, the lucky punter has to pray for a Premier League/FACup/Champions League treble. It doesn't look as though the bookies want to be stung again.

 

[Lako42]

Worth a £1

 

[Miles Away]

So to get same odds as last season, the lucky punter has to pray for a Premier League/FACup/Champions League treble. It doesn't look as though the bookies want to be stung again.

50/1 for the Champions League! Hilarious.

 

[FryattFox]

It doesn't look as though the bookies want to be stung again.

Can we please get over the notion that bookies have been "stung". They will have absolutely loved this season, and will have made an absolute killing on bets on the title race.

The vast majority of the money bet during the season always goes on the favorites and other short odds. Yes, they'll have paid out a significant amount on our win, but the vast majority of bookmakers will have taken far more on bets on the traditional top four. Similarly to horse racing, the best result for a bookie is for an outsider to win (unless they've seriously mis-managed their books).

They'll be laughing all the way to the bank, especially with people lining up to put on ludicrous bets on Burnley, Middlesbrough and others already.

 

[SwedeFox]

Can we please get over the notion that bookies have been "stung". They will have absolutely loved this season, and will have made an absolute killing on bets on the title race.

The vast majority of the money bet during the season always goes on the favorites and other short odds. Yes, they'll have paid out a significant amount on our win, but the vast majority of bookmakers will have taken far more on bets on the traditional top four. Similarly to horse racing, the best result for a bookie is for an outsider to win (unless they've seriously mis-managed their books).

They'll be laughing all the way to the bank, especially with people lining up to put on ludicrous bets on Burnley, Middlesbrough and others already.

It's ridiculous the number of press-releases they have sent out pretending to be badly hurt by this.

If I were a bookie though, I'd keep us at really high odds. People would be looking to do what others did last year and it would be a safe way of cashing in as lightning can hardly strike twice...









...can it?

 

[Blaarev]

It's ridiculous the number of press-releases they have sent out pretending to be badly hurt by this.

If I were a bookie though, I'd keep us at really high odds. People would be looking to do what others did last year and it would be a safe way of cashing in as lightning can hardly strike twice...









...can it?

Of course it can,

 

[pork pie fox]

Can we please get over the notion that bookies have been "stung". They will have absolutely loved this season, and will have made an absolute killing on bets on the title race.

The vast majority of the money bet during the season always goes on the favorites and other short odds. Yes, they'll have paid out a significant amount on our win, but the vast majority of bookmakers will have taken far more on bets on the traditional top four. Similarly to horse racing, the best result for a bookie is for an outsider to win (unless they've seriously mis-managed their books).

They'll be laughing all the way to the bank, especially with people lining up to put on ludicrous bets on Burnley, Middlesbrough and others already.

Paddy Power was saying the same thing the other day.

 

[Mawsley]

7,500/1?

I'll have some of that.

 

[FryattFox]

It's ridiculous the number of press-releases they have sent out pretending to be badly hurt by this.

Exactly. Their PR has been very carefully managed, and they've done excellently as a result. All they've needed to say is that they are "hurt" having to pay out £10m on Leicester winning, and people have run and run with it.

I'd be hurt paying out £10m too. But the £50m received in on Chelsea et al would have helped...

As you say, they'll be even more profitable this year as more people try to get one over and put more and more stupid bets on ridiculously unlikely outcomes.

 

[pork pie fox]

Paddy Power was saying the same thing the other day.

I should point out that Paddy was agreeing with you, FryattFox, that people shouldn't feel sorry for bookies, they'll have done very well through the season.

 

[EMC Fox]

..at least Liverpool wont be diluting the money now

 

[Lako42]

Would have been a travesty if those shit heaps got into this completion for the cream of Europe.

 

[fox58]

From Uefa.com

CLUB RECORD IN UEFA COMPETITIONS

• Biggest win:
  13/09/1961, Glenavon 1-4 Leicester, Belfast
• Biggest defeat:
  28/09/2000, Crvena zvezda 3-1 Leicester, Vienna

• Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
• Appearances in UEFA cup: 2

• Player with most UEFA appearances: 4
  Gordon Banks ( ENG)
  Mustafa İzzet ( TUR)
  Steve Guppy ( ENG)
  Neil Lennon ( NIR)
  Matt Elliott ( SCO)
  John Ian King ( SCO)
  Richard Norman ( ENG)
  Colin Appleton ( ENG)
  Leonard Chalmers ( SCO)
  Howard Riley ( ENG)
  Ian White ( SCO)
  Gordon Wills ( ENG)
  Kenneth Keyworth ( ENG)

• Top scorers in UEFA club competitions: 3
  Ken Keyworth (ENG)
  
  
  Plenty of records will be broken next season
  
  

 

[Orifice]

Player with most UEFA appearances: 4
Gordon Banks ( ENG)
Mustafa İzzet ( TUR)
Steve Guppy ( ENG)
Neil Lennon ( NIR)
Matt Elliott ( SCO)
John Ian King ( SCO)
Richard Norman ( ENG)
Colin Appleton ( ENG)
Leonard Chalmers ( SCO)
Howard Riley ( ENG)
Ian White ( SCO)
Gordon Wills ( ENG)
Kenneth Keyworth ( ENG)

I like the look of that list. One of them there players has the same name as me. Weird.

 

[Blaarev]

I like the look of that list. One of them there players has the same name as me. Weird.

Are you Muzzy??

 

[camberwell fox]

I like the look of that list. One of them there players has the same name as me. Weird.

Bit weird being Christened Orifice.

 

[Brown Nose]

62% of all bets in the UK on next years Champions League have been placed on Leicester.

 

[FryattFox]

62% of all bets in the UK on next years Champions League have been placed on Leicester.

Insane.

What's the source for that?

 

[Lako42]

The bookies will be overjoyed