Brian Reade's column: You can't fail with this bet.ON this opening day of the season I would like to offer a solid tip to supporters of the three new Premiership teams. Go to the bookies and put a wager on your team to win the league. Not only will you feel good about yourself, you stand a decent chance of making a few bob. Let me explain. We all know that over the next few weeks one of the promoted sides will top the league, making your 1000-1 wager look inspirational in·spi·ra·tion·al adj. 1. Of or relating to inspiration. 2. Providing or intended to convey inspiration. 3. Resulting from inspiration. to fools who know nothing about football. And pubs are full of them. So for the two nights they top the Premiership you can sit in your local basking in glory. The fools, not only wanting to bask in reflected glory but also sensing you may soon cop for a small fortune, will ply (mathematics, data) ply - 1. Of a node in a tree, the number of branches between that node and the root. 2. Of a tree, the maximum ply of any of its nodes. you with unlimited free booze Booze sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153] See : Drunkenness . You will thus recoup recoup To sell an asset at a price sufficient to recover the original outlay or to offset a previous loss. your stake, and make a tidy profit. Take that profit back to the bookies and put it on Manchester United to win the league. And come next May the winnings from that bet will help get over the abject misery of your side's relegation RELEGATION, civil law. Among the Romans relegation was a banishment to a certain place, and consequently was an interdiction of all places except the one designated. 2. It differed from deportation. (q.v.) Relegation and deportation agree u these particulars: 1. back to the Nationwide League. It never fails. |
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