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Originally Posted by jaysay
If you actually watch the announcement the Ruskies were cheering before the announcement was made  |
Sky News were telling us the Ruskies had won 15 minutes before the announcement. It was on the Press Association wires, and journalists were tweeting the result. They showed Henry Winter of the Daily Telegraph's twitter page long before the formal announcement.
A friend of mine rang me to tell me to get a couple of quid on Qatar for 2022, as their price had gone from long odds against to odds-on. Thank goodness I had an on-line account with Bet365!