Betting Stories: Christmas comes early for one punter after FOUR player card bet romps home

Christmas came early for one extremely luck punter last night, as four players finding their way into the referee's notebook sealed him a whopping £4,400 payout from a £5 stake! 

Liverpool fan @liamf672 placed the wager on Wednesday evening's Premier League action and included Southampton's Ryan Bertrand & Arsenal's Dani Ceballos each to pick up a yellow as Arsenal hosted the Saints. 

This part of the bet absolutely flew in, as Bertrand picked up a caution inside the first half hour before Ceballos duly obliged and found his name taken just 10 minutes later! Part one of the bet wrapped up by half-time, not too shabby. 

Then it was on to Leicester's clash with Everton at the King Power, the second early kick-off of the evening.

The shrewd bet365 customer backed Leicester's Nampalys Mendy to pick up his fifth yellow card of the campaign and, low and behold, the Frenchman held up his end of the bargain by committing a rash challenge which left referee Lee Mason with no other option than to book him.

So, after half-time all that was left to come in was a Mason Holgate booking. Nerves must have been jangling, cash out presumably tempting.

But, when your luck's in, it's just in and within the first three minutes of the second half, Holgate was booked for a tough challenge and Lee Mason brandished his second card of the game, therefore scooping Mr. Fitz with a lovely bit of profit just a week before Christmas - top work!