{"id":143,"date":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/oddschecker-punters-enthused-by-manchester-united-manager-market\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","slug":"oddschecker-punters-enthused-by-manchester-united-manager-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/index.php\/oddschecker-punters-enthused-by-manchester-united-manager-market\/","title":{"rendered":"ODDSCHECKER: PUNTERS ENTHUSED BY MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER MARKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online odds comparison site,\u00a0<strong>Oddschecker\u00a0<\/strong>has revealed that the market for Manchester United\u2019s next manager was its third most popular of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The only markets that\u00a0<strong>Jose Mourinho\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0successor trailed on was the Grand National and Eurovision, with\u00a0<strong>Oddschecker<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>analytics detailing 43% more traffic on the Manchester United manager page than the highest viewed market during the<strong>\u00a0Cheltenham Festival<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in March, the Gold Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the role only being vacant for less the 48 hours, the volume of bets on who would take the role trumped that of England\u2019s World Cup semi-final game with Croatia, seeing a 26% increase on Oddschecker.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, basing statistics solely on the UK and Ireland, the managerial market was 48% more popular than Eurovision, a typically major market for betting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ole Gunnar Solskjaer<\/strong>\u00a0was the most popular bet on site by quite some distance, attracting 42% of all bets since news broke that Mourinho had been sacked.<\/p>\n<p>The next most popular punt in the market was Frenchman\u00a0<strong>Laurent Blanc<\/strong>\u00a0with 16% of all bets, followed by Mauricio Pochettino with 9% share of all bets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oddschecker spokesperson George Elek<\/strong>\u00a0commented: \u201cManchester United may not be living up to past glories on the pitch, but their popularity cannot be questioned as can be seen by the scramble to find out who would be replacing Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether people were placing bets themselves or just monitoring how the market moved during the day, people remain fascinated with the goings-on at Old Trafford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"author__bio\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p class=\"comment-form-comment\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"comment\">Comment<\/label><br \/>\n<textarea aria-required=\"true\" cols=\"45\" id=\"comment\" name=\"comment\" placeholder=\"Message\" rows=\"8\"><\/textarea><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-author\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"author\">Name<\/label><input aria-required=\"true\" id=\"author\" name=\"author\" placeholder=\"Name...\" size=\"30\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-email\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"name\">Email<\/label><input aria-required=\"true\" id=\"email\" name=\"email\" placeholder=\"Email...\" size=\"30\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-url\"><label class=\"show-on-ie8\" for=\"url\">Url<\/label><input id=\"url\" name=\"url\" placeholder=\"Website...\" size=\"30\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-form-cookies-consent\"><input id=\"wp-comment-cookies-consent\" name=\"wp-comment-cookies-consent\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"yes\"\/><label for=\"wp-comment-cookies-consent\">Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.<\/label><\/p>\n<p class=\"form-submit\"><input class=\"submit\" id=\"comment-submit\" name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\"\/> <input id=\"comment_post_ID\" name=\"comment_post_ID\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"2518\"\/> <input id=\"comment_parent\" name=\"comment_parent\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online odds comparison site,\u00a0Oddschecker\u00a0has revealed that the market for Manchester United\u2019s next manager was its third most popular of 2018. 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