We’ve all made daft bets we come to regret – nowadays they all seem to be on Twitter.
The app should come with a ‘do you really want to tweet this’ warning at the very least, if not a full scale breathalyser to stop people tweeting silly bets.
But it’s not just fans that make outlandish wagers on Twitter – footballers are at it too.
Gerard Pique put a quite-spectacular effort up the other day after seeing the strange scoreline coincidence in Serie A over the weekend, according to the Mirror.
With four games finishing 2-2, the Barcelona star posted that if the day’s final two games – Lazio vs Udinese and Inter vs AC Milan – finished with the same score, he would buy everyone who retweeted him a Barca shirt.
Veo que está de moda el 2-2 en Italia. Si Lazio-Udinese y Inter-Milan quedan 2-2 regalo una camiseta a todos los RT! pic.twitter.com/GFuH7Fo0qP
— Gerard Piqué (@3gerardpique) September 13, 2015
When 80,000 people retweeted him, he must have been s**ting his pants. Doing some rough maths, a shirt costs €90 – so he was staring down the barrel of a €7.2m bill.
Luckily for him, fate wasn’t on the side of the fans and Lazio saw off Udinese 2-0 and Inter beat AC Milan 1-0.
