An oft quoted phrase.<\/p>\n
But, Man U 0-1 Leeds United. That was a big turned up for the books wasn’t it? Or was it?<\/p>\n
Well you don’t need to wind back far to see the last time a similar thing happened. I looked at matches where the home team were priced between 1.25 to 1.30 for a home win. Curiously, where this involved an English team playing a foreign team, the English teams were very dominant. Focusing just on domestic football the last ‘shock’ actually only occurred less than a month ago with Wolves winning at Spurs, Spurs were 1.30 to win. But going back further it was actually quite tough to find a similar situation, the glaring exception being Manchester Utd vs Coventry<\/a> in the league cup in 2007. Man U lost 0-2 at home. Memories are short, aren’t they? If you go back a little further to 2005 Man U drew 0-0 with lowly Exeter in the third round at home as well.<\/p>\n Out of the 33 matches I could easily find back to 2007, 2 ended up in victories for the away team. That works out to odds of 2\/33 or 16.50 in digital odds for the away team. Leeds started the match at odds of, you guessed it, 16.50!!<\/p>\n Football often throws up odds results thanks to the fact that so few goals are scored on average. One goal can make a huge difference to a game. Therefore football is one of the sports where upsets can, and do occur, with quite a bit of frequency.<\/p>\n