Uruguay striker, Luis Suarez, probably has a lot on his plate right now, with him facing the possibility of a lengthy ban from FIFA for biting Italian defender Chiellini in their game on Tuesday.
His actions however have left over a hundred Scandinavian fans salivating after they won up to £1,600 for betting on the Uruguayan sinking his teeth into an opponent at the World Cup.
With odds of 175-1 offered by the online bookmaker Betsafe for this happening, the fans took the chance and bet amounts ranging from 80 Swedish Korona (£7).
Suarez who has bitten opponents twice before in his career, at previous club Ajax and recently playing for current club Liverpool against Chelsea, appeared to have taken a nip at Chiellini’s shoulder with Uruguay set to be eliminated.
Godin scored a late winner to send Uruguay into the second round but Suarez’s bite was the main talking point of the game.
In Norway, Richard Helmersen, who won £1,600, told TV2: “It’s really quite surreal.
“I was watching the game and when it happened, I start to get messages from buddies who knew I’d put money on it. It’s quite fun.”
Jonathan Braeck, a 23-year-old substitute teacher from Stenungssund in Sweden, is now set for a payout of 14,000 krona (£1,225) for his wager.
First I thought I’d bet a little more, but a friend said I was just wasting my money,” Braeck told the SportExpressen newspaper.
“When Italy took over the game you knew that he could go a little crazy,” he added. “I didn’t think that he would bite, but that he’d do something stupid. Then he did the best stupid thing that he could do.”
Braeck, very tongue-in-cheek, says he will spend some of his winnings on travelling to a Premier League game in England to watch Liverpool’s fierce rivals Manchester United.
“It will be a trip to Manchester. I’m going to try to find someone to go with me to Manchester United,” he said.
“If I had [Suárez’s] home address I’d send him a thank-you card. It was very nice of him to bite and give me a trip to Manchester.”
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana