Football Pools owner sells out for nearly £100m

[barryqwalsh]

British comedian Bruce Forsyth (right) presents a cheque for £152,319 in 1961 to perhaps iots most famous winners – Yorkshire miner Keith Howard Nicholson and his wife, Vivian, famed for her vow to ‘spend, spend, spend’ the jackpot.



The Football Pools, once a staple of the British Saturday teatime as families crowded around TVs and radios with fingers crossed for eight score draws, is to change hands in a near £100m deal.

The National Lottery came close to killing off the pools, but 300,000 people still spend an average of just over £3 a week in the hope of scooping the maximum prize of £3m.


Football Pools owner sells out for nearly £100m

 

[Moonglow]

The miner looks a bit smashed...

 

[barryqwalsh]

The miner looks a bit smashed...

Can you blame him? £152,319 in 1961 was a lot of money. It would be millions in today's money.

 

[barryqwalsh]

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British comedian Bruce Forsyth (right) presents a cheque for £152,319 in 1961 to perhaps iots most famous winners – Yorkshire miner Keith Howard Nicholson and his wife, Vivian, famed for her vow to ‘spend, spend, spend’ the jackpot.



The Football Pools, once a staple of the British Saturday teatime as families crowded around TVs and radios with fingers crossed for eight score draws, is to change hands in a near £100m deal.

The National Lottery came close to killing off the pools, but 300,000 people still spend an average of just over £3 a week in the hope of scooping the maximum prize of £3m.


Football Pools owner sells out for nearly £100m

I wonder what happened to the couple?

Did they manage their win responsibly, providing themselves with lifetime financial security, and leaving an inheritance to their children?

Or, did they spent the new-found wealth thoughtlessly, and end up back at square one?