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Football Pools winners reveal how their lives changed for as little as a few pence

website http://khuonchau.vn/ #FootballPools, #winners, #reveal, #their, #lives, #changed, #little, #pence    / @newstoday-kk8jw   The game could change lives for as little as a few pence and became a Saturday ritual for millions during its heyday. The football pools saw punters staking a bet to predict the scores of matches up and down the country. In the days before the National Lottery, the pools was the only chance for the ordinary man or woman in the street to win life-changing sums. Pottery worker Edwin Dodd ­celebrated a £1,000 pools win in 1934 – a fortune in those days. Mr Dodd, 21, was working for 48 shillings a week in Stoke-on-Trent while recovering from a major operation. He was able to buy a newsagents business and a home for himself, his wife and their four-year-old son. Almost 50 years later, Mr Dodd recalled: “The win saved my life because if I had not had the money, I would have carried on working. Keith and Vivian Nicholson posing with the cheque they were given in London, in September 1961 (Image: Getty) Read More Meghan Markle left this sweet Christmas gesture at Royal Variety event “I would rather have died working than starve.” Miner Keith Nicholson and his wife Viv, from Castleford, West Yorks, won £152,000 in 1961 – equivalent to around £3.5million today. Viv famously vowed to “spend, spend, spend”. It took the couple just three years to blow their winnings after they splashed out on cars, furs, champagne parties and a ranch-style home. When Keith died in a car crash four years after their win, a huge tax bill left Viv bankrupt. Her life story was turned into a West End musical before her death three years ago. The first win of more than a million pounds went to a group of nurses from Wiltshire in 1986. Football Pools chief Sir John Moores CBE who was estimated to be worth £1billion (Image: Mirrorpix) Read More Millionaire bodyguard swaps spending £20k on Christmas for £40 Iceland dinner Graham Barlow, from Leicester, was just about to give up playing as his weekly stake was proving a financial strain when he hit the jackpot in September 1992. With pregnant wife Diane due to give birth shortly, Graham planned to tell his dad Arthur that he was throwing the towel in on the pools. But Graham decided to try his luck for one more week and the father-and-son partnership became pools millionaires, winning £1,120,705 between them. In 2010, Michael Elliott, from Brechin, Angus, became the first ever triple millionaire in the 87-year history of the pools. He won £3,001,511 for a £2 stake – sealed by Clitheroe’s 2-2 draw with Fylde in the Evo-Stik Premier League. An artists preparing pools coupons (Image: Mirrorpix) He said after winning: “I cannot believe it. It is a dream come true. To say this is a life-changing experience would be the understatement of the year. I’ve played the Pools for many years and won three times before, my biggest previous win was £32.” Joe Bosher, from Tyneside, thought he had won the jackpot in 1986 when his selections came in. A pal lent him £50 to ­celebrate and he hit the town, onl