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What Millions Played B4 National Lottery

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CrossQueen | 15:24 Sun 01st May 2016 | Crosswords
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Answer:.....Football Pools
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I saw a request from jubo22 'what was played before national lottery'. I gave my answer as 'Football Pools' no one else had posted an answer

It's usual to answer a question on the thread asking it, where it says "Type your answer here"

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1489120.html
Yes Football pools were really huge!
There was a network of 1,000's of collectors who would go door to door collecting the coupons and stakes. Every factory and office had a collector, the newspapers all had 'pools plans' which you could use for your stake.
When the results came in on the TV there were forecasts of the pools dividends and if you needed to claim.
Eddie > There was a network of 1,000's of collectors who would go door to door collecting the coupons and stakes.

This continued until a couple of months ago.Littlewoods stopped it.A kick in the teeth to many long standing collectors and also many customers.
Used to collect pools coupons agchristie in the 70's, got 8.5% commission if my memory is correct
^^ I didn't realize it was still going as recently as you say. I knew the pools still operate but I thought the collectors were long gone.
Sam - commission reached 12.5% for pools and 10% for Lotto until it was stopped.

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