Bulls in the gambling history books

Question: What's the connection between Jukka Honkavaara and Hereford United?

Answer: Honkavaara placed the first ever online sports bet with a company called Intertops, and his bet was on the FA Cup game between Tottenham Hotspur and Hereford United.

On January 17th 1996 he placed his fifty dollar bet on bet on the outcome of a football match between the two UK teams. He came away with fifty two dollars, a profit of just two dollars.

Today, Intertops is a multi-million dollar business offering over a thousand online betting options each day to sports fans just like Jukka Honkavaara. And they are no doubt very thankfull he started the whole thing off with a bet involving Hereford United.

Meanwhile the Hereford Journal reports that the club shop sold 250 copies of the new book '50 Hereford United Greats' by Denise Powell and Dave Edge, last Saturday. Copies are available at £12.99.

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