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Good afternoon all and thanks for entering if you entered. If you didn’t, thanks for reading this announcement of a result that has nothing to do with you.
I thought it was a pretty tough edition of WCIIA?, but that’s not how it turned out. Lots of people were well able to work it out and that necessitated rather a large hat for this week’s draw.
First and foremost, the answer as France international and Euro 2000 winner, Christian Karembeu. The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia born Frenchie enjoyed a successful career with Nantes, Sampdoria, Real Madrid, Middlesbrough, Olympiacos, Servette and Bastia, but is probably still more famous for his cracking Victoria’s Secret model (now ex) wife, Adriana Sklenarikova.
The name drawn out of the hat belongs to Matt Johnson. He’s pretty lucky because thatnnks to everyone sharing this competition on Twitter and Facebook, he wins a Free £105 Bet. Not ‘bagging Adriana Sklenariko’ lucky, but it’s not bad nonetheless.
Thanks for playing and bad luck if you had bad luck. I’m cooking up more competition fun at the moment and you’ll get another chance of victory before too long.
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It’s time to spin the wheel of Paddy Power Blog fortune and see if it throws a big pile of Free Bet in your general direction. In honour of all the football, it’s a standard game of Whose Career Is It Anyway?
If you haven’t played before, it’s as simple as Premier League footballer. The first challenge is to look at the map below these words.
Congratulations! You’ve passed the minimum requirement for entering this competition. After that, find out which clubs the flags on the map are referring to and then tell me what player those clubs correspond to. I’ve made it sound much more complicated than it needs to be, but it is quite simple.
It’s all the senior clubs this player has played for (including loans) by the way. Simply figure out what the clubs are and then who has played for all those clubs. Easy peasy.
Competition: Whose Career Is It Anyway
- Send your answer to competitions@paddypower.com with the subject line ‘I have nailed this weird competition’. Or don’t, it doesn’t really make any difference to your entry.
- DON’T PUT YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION – you’ll only be helping an opponent and giving me license to take the piss out of you. You’re allowed more than one guess, but you’re clever and probably won’t need it.
The prize starts off as a €/£50 Free Bet, but will grow by one euro or pound for every time this tweet gets retweeted or every time this competition gets shared on Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn. That should boost the fund rather substantially and you might win that prize, so you should definitely do it. In the event we get more than one correct answer, the winner shall be drawn from my hat of mystery.
Get your answers in before 10am on Tuesday 26th June and I’ll announce the winner soon after. You can use the comments section for begging for clues or general observations on life, but NO ANSWERS please
Conditions
- Customers must be over the age of 18, have a valid paddypower.com account and be old enough to remember a (kind of) slim-line Tomas Brolin from Euro 92.
- Maximum size of the free bet will be €/£150.
- Paddy Power decision is final and moaning will be ridiculed.
Hi Aidan ! Am I close ?
You’re so close you’re actually there. Well done Keef.
Tricky one this week! Am I right, Aidan?
Hi Aidan,
Am I in the hat?
Yes, Gary, you are in the hat. Congrats
think ive nailed it!
hi Aidan am i in?
Sorry Liam, you’re not in, but only because I can’t see your entry.
Try again. There’s probably a problem our end.
The title of my email ‘I have nailed this competition’ may have been a tad over confident – mind confirming whether or not I did nail it?
The over-confidence turned out to be the right amount of confidence James because you did nail it.
Why do people feel the need to ask if they are in the hat? You get nothin for bein in the hat chaps, you have to get pulled out of the hat, then you win.
Well, there’s no harm in checking Paul, especially when I’m bored and looking for things to keep me busy until I clock off.
I always think you need to be in the competition to win that said competition. Someone really should sum that sentiment up in some sort of snappy cliche.
. . . because if you’re not, you can have another go. Simples !
Too easy this game just needed 2 minutes to find the player and 100 % sure of my answer.
Yeah, I don’t like you’re cocky e-swaggering londonboy, but you are correct on both fronts.
I thought it would be much tougher than it is, but my map-mapping is just too darn precise!
am i close?
aiden am i in the hat?hopefully il be a bit more lucky this comp
Yes ‘catherine’, you are correct and nestled in the hat.
Hi, can you confirm or deny that I am in that hat?
So, first you slag off asking if you’re in the hat and then you ask if you’re in the hat, eh? ; )
Yes, you are in the hat PB, so you can enjoy your sleep-filled nights until the competition ends.
Sooo am I in the hat orrrr?
Well done Tom. Your borderline pornstar name hasn’t hindered your ability to identify the careers of footballers from flags on a map.
Yeeeeaaahhhhhhhh!!!! I am in the hat. A lifelong ambition is realised! Yeeeaaahhhhh!!!!! I knew it was Costas Del Richmondo De Constabulary III more or less as soon as I checked out the map. Yeeeeaaahhhhh!!!!!
And the winner of this week’s most sarcastic response to me telling them they’re in the hat is … Paul Burke!
Congrats Paul, you win my best wishes and a copy of The Cheltenham Festival Betting Guide 2007 I have on my desk for the last five years.
Did i get it
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Hello Grania and your smiley face.
Yes, you got it right and your name is now nestled in the hat of quiz-ending mystery. Well done.
it wont let me send my answer in any ideas ?
Hi Flinty. We’ve had some email problems in the last couple of days. Try again and if it doesn’t work again, let me know.
Am i rite buddy????!
Sorry Senor Chickaldo, you are incorrect I’m afraid. ‘Good guess, but it’s not right’ in the words of Roy Walker.
do i need to guess again? or am i in your hat of mystery?
You can guess again, but it would a waste of time as you’re already in the hat! Well done.
Hi Aidan, am in the hat buddy?
Yes, Ally, you are. And that’s to you’re super-sized font, you’re taking up a lot of room in it ; )
Am I right?
Is that even a real footballer??
Ok, turns out it is and it’s actually not a bad guess.
It’s not the right answer though, but you’re not a million miles away.
do i have it aidan?
Sorry Chris Conn, you don’t have it. you’re barking up the right tree however, so give it another go.
Quietly confident Aidan email sent at 18:56 hope you can confirm? Cheers
We must be in a different time-zone as I only see one at 18:57 ; )
Yes, Jason, you’re right and I applaud your cutting and pasting from Wikipedia.
Just to avoid any confusion (should i have been wrong) i however applaud your investigative journalism yet again Aidan lol feel free to add me on FB :O)
Just jesting with ya; but is it me or do you look like a Chubby Ivan Lendl? Roger Federer even? Must be all these strawberries ‘n’ cream haha
Err … thanks Jason? A ‘chubby Ivan Lendl’?
The look I was going for was actually ‘slimline Lindsay Davenport’.
Can you confirm I am in the hat?
You’re confirmed as being in the headgear Andy. Well done.
Did I get it?
Yes, you did get it Kieloh, well done.
Are the teams on the map the ONLY places this player can have played in Europe?
Yes, according to wiki anyway.
The only professional clubs this player has played for anywhere.
was i correct just entered
Yes Denis, you’re correct and in the hat.
Aidan, you really look like dog buns.
Thanks Papi. You really look like fish bagels.
Am i right?
Yes you are Mr. Hayter. Well done.
Any chance of a pair of lucky pants for getting this far?
is i correct
Hi, did i get it right?
who won?
Answer is coming soon Catherine.
ty hope its mee lol
Well done to Matt,
Adrian, no small free bet for the runners up????
Would be so good
I agree.
I think a 1-2-3 of, say, £25, £15, £10, rather than one great big prize.
Sorry Matt, no consolation other than the fact you’re in a very small group of people who were smart enough to get it right.
Sorry KAF, I tried the three smaller prizes option in the past, but it went down like a SS uniform at Bar’mitzvah.
One big prize is obviously harder to win, but more rewarding when Lady Luck finally takes a fancy to you.
OK, fair enough – LOL.
I see you switched off comments on the new one – I wondered if I was near . . or needed to be Kloser, maybe ?
fooled me into thinking it was me
any new ones Aidan?