Pools win stuns Huntly men

Press, 11 December 1981, Page 3

Pools win stuns Huntly men

PA Hamilton Ten Huntly power-station workers could not believe how much money they won in the football pools. Collectively thev are about $1,428,500 richer after their win in the giant British Littlewoods football pool.

One of the winners. Mr John Slater, received a call from Littlewoods on Wednesday night giving him the figure: .1)621,081.48. Mr Slater said yesterday, “It’s unbelievable. We expected a wee bit but not as much as that. For 30c a week we cannot complain." Mr Slater said that the workers had each paid in about. $3 for 10 weeks of draws, drawing tickets out of a hat to decide which numbers to take. As their entry had been sent in for 10 weeks at a time, they could not forecast how the’ draw would

change each week. . Yesterday, eight of the men were at work as usual in the station’s control room. What will they do now? Mr Slater said, “We have to keep working. The station is too short-staffed to have everyone take off.” The men’s coupon shared the first dividend in the Saturday football pool with another coupon.

The other winners were nine men from Aberdeen who won between them £ 614.527.80 (about $1,413,412). Littlewoods said yesterday that the total prize money (equivalent to about $2,841,900) was the highest they had paid out to two winners.

A Littlewoods representative is expected in Huntly today with a cheque for the prize-money.