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Let's be frank here, all sports betting is hard. By nature, sports and their players are very unpredictable. It's hard enough just having a winning single bet. But with Parlay bets, you're going to be betting on a string of results. If just one of these bets fails, then you'll lose the entire wager. As such, you'll need huge amounts of luck. Nevertheless, there have been some very famous cases where a lucky punter has turned a tiny wager into millions of pounds, mainly on the horses.

Due to issues of legality, sports betting has always had a seedy reputation with the UK general public. All that gradually changed with the introduction of new betting legislation. Up until the late 1980s, most betting was done in dingy betting shops which littered high streets up and down the country. But a new look, coupled with more betting options, meant that sports betting slowly became more respectable. The final chapter to acceptance comes with the timely introduction of the internet.