Leigh Herbert freely admits he had been drinking before he made the bet. After all, it’s easier to defend being drunk than it is to defend being stupid.
In reality, he probably had to be a little of both last August when he put down five pounds — about $7 — on Leicester City to win the English Premier League.
The British bookmakers said the odds of that happening were 5,000 to 1. A month later they set the odds of Kim Kardashian becoming president at a mere 1,000 to 1.
“The first thing I thought the next day was that I’d lost that fiver,” Herbert, who will make more than $35,000 if his wager pays off, told the BBC.