Sports Betting : Jocks Away.And Ready for Take-Off

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Byline: DEREK McGOVERN

PROBE any group of professional punters and they'll swear that football is one of the most difficult sports on which to make a profit.

Bookie-friendly rules like minimum trebles, unreliable form, dodgy decisions - all conspire to make the football punter's lot a frustrating one.

But a retired chartered accountant from London has perfected a get-rich-quick betting strategy on football - and claims to have won close on pounds 1million over the past four years.

Tony Ansell is a 53-year-old agoraphobic - even the space bar on his PC sends him potty - who spends his life watching televised sport.

Few of us can resist …