From £250,000 to £6,000: Punter loses jackpot with Emerson’s last minute goal

One Super Six punter agonisingly lost out on a £250,000 payday after Chelsea scored an ultimately pointless 94th-minute goal against Atletico Madrid.

Predicting six perfect scores earns you the quarter-million pound jackpot in Sky’s game – and one player had five out of six correct, plus a prediction that Chelsea would beat Atletico Madrid 1-0 in the Champions League.

Hakim Ziyech’s first-half goal laid the table for the unlucky football fan (and gave Chelsea an aggregate 2-0 lead). But just when it looked like 10-man Atletico were heading for a 1-0 win – Christian Pulisic sprung an unlikely counter that ended in Emerson firing the ball home.

Chelsea had won 2-0 on the night with virtually the last kick of the game – and Tim Sherwood, watching the match on Soccer Special looked absolutely distraught for the Super Six player.

“Chelsea are breaking away here, let’s hope they do not score,” intoned Sherwood as he watched the dying seconds of the game.

“Emerson! They’ve scored – oh no,” he finished. The Sky panel absolutely fell about in sympathetic agony.

Instead of a cool £250k for six flawless score predictions, Sky announced that an Alan Davis from Birmingham had instead won £6,000 for predicting five correct scores and one correct result.

Quite the drop-off from a quarter of a million. And all for a goal that – ultimately – didn’t mean a great deal as Chelsea were already cruising into the Champions League quarter-finals at Stamford Bridge.

But it meant a lot to one football fan. Presumably Alan. Sometimes the beautiful game is the cruellest of sports.

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