Suarez bites, fans win at bookmakers

Match Italia - Uruguay will definitely be remembered by football fans not only because of the final result but as well because of an incident thanks to which it was loud around Luiz Suarez again.

There is much to say about the ongoing World Cup, but certainly it cannot be said that it is predictable or boring. Fans are constantly being surprised by devastating result of the front runners of this tournament. Also, the behaviour of the players on the field make me rub my eyes in amazement. It was not different during the match between Uruguay-Italy where the theme was taken right from the movies about vampires.

The main character of the meeting was Luiz Suarez a players form Uruguay’s national who is as of now famous among journalists and sport commentators as “vampire” or “cannibal”. It is because not for the first time he has bitten a player from an opposing field on the pith. In 2010 he was suspended for seven consecutive matches for bitting a PSV Eindhoven’s player Otman Bakkal. This punishment has calmed hot-blooded Uruguay player only for some time, because in 2013 he bit Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.

No wonder that before this year’s World Cup bookmakers set odd on whether “Suarez will bite or not” this time. Fan who had bet that Suarez will do it again have won. In a match between Uruguay and Italy Giorgio Chiellini was a victim bitten by hard temper Uruguay player in the neck in 79th minute of the match. Odds offered by Betsson for this event were at 175 and the bookmaker had to pay a total of 33, 000 euro to the players. A Norwegian player won thanks to it about $1, 000, a coupon of a lucky Norwegian can be found on the web.

As we can see at bookmakers a great interest is not only in tiping winners of individual matches but some controversial events as well. Betsson offered a bet stating “Will an animal invade the field?” which brought a win to players thanks to a bee which was filmed at the turf during a match. I wonder how the fans will bet if bets such as “For how long will Suarez have to say goodbye to the international matches?”  appear and what will be results of such bets.