Vernons Easy Play #19

5 Easy Play score draws on Saturday 19th December 1998:

Coventry City         1-1   Derby County       
Nottingham Forest     2-2   Blackburn Rovers   
Crystal Palace        1-1   Queens Park Rangers
Chesterfield          1-1   Wigan Athletic     
Reading               1-1   Oldham Athletic    

[A full set of fixtures for this game is also available]

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100000 *114).

Category       Prize        Winners        Total       Percentages
5 draws       £1,534.00         121      £185,614.00      100.0%
Ticket sales                             £488,461.00

• The average prize was £1,534.00 and one in every 4036.9 tickets won a prize (=0.02% of players).
• This was only the second time that there were 5 Vernons Easy Play score draws, but it left a bitter taste in the mouth of most players because there were a pathetic 121 prizes awarded in total (lowest ever).
• Vernons must be hugging Nathan Blake of Blackburn Rovers - his injury time equaliser at the end of the Nottingham Forest game prevented the scandal of no Vernons Easy Play prizes being awarded at all (which happens when there's 4 Vernons Easy Play score draws or less).
• Ticket sales dive-bombed below £500,000 for the time in the history of Vernons Easy Play, which surely now spells curtains for this ill-conceived game ?
• Prizes won in this draw must be claimed within 180 days i.e. by 11.00pm BST on Thursday 17th June 1999.

Next game: #20 (Saturday 26th December 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous game: #18 (Saturday 12th December 1998) [26 jackpot winners]

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