Soccer · England
Punters pile on Rafa departure rumour
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:52Paddy Power bookmakers have suspended betting on Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez leaving the club after a flood of bets this afternoon.
At the start of the day the Liverpool boss had been a 22/1 outsider to be the first Premier League manager to lose his job this season, but a betting plunge pushed Rafa' s odds all the way down to 7/1 before the bookie pulled the plug at 4/1.
Darren Haines, spokesman for Paddy Power, said: 'A rumour of some kind has spread like wildfire - we don't know what's behind it - but something looks to have happened at Anfield for such a sustained outlay on Rafa to leave the club.'
