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A football punter is furious at a bookie error which involved Blue Square Bookmakers paying him out £10,000 in winnings he was'nt due to collect.

48 hours later Blue Sq Betting noticed the error and claimed back the £10,000 from the soccer gambler (Leigh Rigby, 32). The problem is football punter Leigh had already spent £3,000 on a slap-up dinner for friends, and had apparently bought a load of toys and clothes for his kids aswell.

10,000/1 Own Goal Bet
Leigh Rigby, 32, bet £1 at 10,000-1 on an own goal being scored in the Barcelona versus Real Madrid match on April 1

£3,000 Own Goal
Simply put, No Own Goal was scored in the Spanish giants derby. The match ended ended in a 1-1 draw after a late Ronaldo equaliser for 10 man Real cancelled out Ronadhino's spot kick for Barca. Leigh will have known that the bet went down, i'd bet on it.

Gamblog Comment :: Much as I am pro-the-player where objectively possible in betting disputes. Leigh can't be spending winnings he would have known were not rightfully won and expect to get away with it. If he was overpaid in a highstreet betting shop and never returned, then maybe he would be able to push his luck, without having to leave the country. Not when you have opened a betting account online though.

Flipside is Leigh winning 10k and erroneously not getting payed out by Blue Sq Bookmakers because of a technical glitch or software error. In that instance I would expect Blue Sq to pay the man for palpable error. Anything less would welching on a bet.

Therefore, Ibas and Blue Sq made the correct decision in this betting dispute, in my opinion.