A beloved category of Punting Yarn is the missed multi by one leg. There’s been many a cat (metaphorically) kicked by people that were just dudded out of a huge collect by the barest of margins – this is one of those stories.

I’ll set the scene, I’m in Lisbon on a euro trip in 2009. (SC – you weren’t a part of the Fanatics, I hope?)

The beers are flowing and the party kicking right off in the land of Ronaldo and Nando’s, but being the fiend for multi’s that I am, I crack open my Aussie bookie account and have a flutter, just to add to the electricity of the night.

I take various AFL legs, and a few French Open one’s too. The night progresses and when I (sober up /)get the chance to look how everything has gone, I’m pumped to see they’re all winning legs. Only thing in progress is Rafa Nadal to beat Robin Soderling at $1.01.

While $1.01 isn’t really something that’s adding value, this is the French Open, and the King of Clay versus some guy I’ve never heard of, so I thought I’d throw it on just to take the thing from six legs to seven.

Needless to say Nadal lost his only match at the French open for about 10 years, and the gorilla I had already mentally spent on another two weeks in Europe had dissolved back into air, and soon after I was back in Australia googling Robin Soderling.

HAHA big rockin Robin. Don’t forget that name.

And those who are wondering, here he is.

A $50 Bonus Cash injection into your SportChamps account could be the start of your next Euro Trip, mate. Enjoy.