Sunbets 5/1 Mike Dean to award a penalty (max £10)

I think that a Linesman can indicate a penalty, but only the ref can actually “award” one.

I guess if Dean get’s injured and replaced mid match (it does happen!) and the replacement ref awarded the spot kick, then technically Sunbets could refuse to pay you out and you would obviously lose your lay bet.

edit: ninja’d by @matchedem :)

Worth it in my opinion as a small punt at least.

A decent amount of penalties have been awarded this season so far. There is a new directive to clamp down on holding and pushing in the penalty area at corners.

The last time I saw a ref coming off injured must be about a decade ago. Not really a consideration. In that case sunbets might still be generous enough to pay out or at least void the bet. You would be left paying out at the exchange so perhaps underlay a little more or don’t lay at all and just take it as a value bet.

I see what you mean about the lay coming down – at the moment the back is 3.85 and the lay is 5.3 – so I imagine the true odds is somewhere in the middle. But it might also go up as we have seen so often with boosts.

Ian Wright’s banker and the Saturday Fourfold look decent value too, pity you can’t sequentially lay them.