Adebayor’s volley causes betting controversy

Blue Square has been forced to close their book on Match of the Day’s Goal of the Month competition, as a disproportionate amount of people were voting for Emmanuel Adebayor’s wonder strike against Spurs in September (2:40 in the video above). Ruling out the possibilities that this was the best goal and that’s why people voted for it, the bookies have pulled the market last night amid whispers of a leak at the Big British Castle.

The BBC claim there is ‘no evidence to suggest a leak’ of the result, yet punters placed £10,000 on the winning strike in four hours yesterday, and continued to bet when the odds were slashed to 1/5.

Personally, I think it’s all a big fuss over nothing - the BBC would never fix a competition. The British public simply wouldn’t stand for it. Ahem.