{"id":5136,"date":"2020-07-22T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/?page_id=5136"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T14:36:33","slug":"longest-running-bets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/articles\/longest-running-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest Running Bets Past & Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
When many of us think of betting, we think of things that are happening in the short-term. For example, which football team we believe will win the current Premier League season or which tennis player will emerge victorious from Wimbledon. And while these sports bets are entertaining within themselves, without a doubt, there are various other bets that can be considered perhaps a little more thrilling for some people.<\/p>\n
Here we\u2019re talking about long-term bets, which are placed long before the events they relate to even occur. For example, it was in the early 2000s that someone placed a bet on Roger Federer becoming seven time Wimbledon champion, and in 2012, that bet brought in \u00a3100,000 for its winner, which was donated to the charity Oxfam. Yet, exactly how popular are these future bets and what are some of the longest running bets to have ever been placed, both in history and still currently running?<\/p>\n