IPOH: Life after the World Cup has become especially painful for football punters who mortgaged their homes and used their cars as collateral to place bets with bookies.
Some even got their relatives to chip in for a share of the huge takings that they were so sure of. They lost big time when results turned out to be highly unexpected, or even shocking, such as Germany’s 7-1 thrashing of host Brazil.
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