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We can only apologise for the late resolution of this competition. I could give you a string of plausible excuses but let’s be honest, if you’ve won a free bet you’re going to forgive us. If you haven’t then you’ll probably have a bit of a grumble. Rightly so. Aidan’s Twitter details are below. It’s actually not his fault at all but that just makes the thought of him being inundated with abuse all the funnier. Keep it within reasonable limits of abuse of course.
The outright winner is Ian Carroll who belated wins £79 in free bets.
I’ve also given extra £25 free bets to Hugh Orr (who I’ve just realised won the last of these competitions but the free bet has gone in and reversing it would way too much hassle) and Martin Condron.
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It’s time for another edition of Whose Career Is It Anyway? where we ask you to combine football trivia, a knowledge of geography and pure luck for the juicy carrot of what will most likely be a Free Bet of a good bit more than £/€50.
This week we’re continuing with our new and not really improved map that allows us to accommodate players who have done their share of globe-trotting. The format is the same as ever.
- Look at the flags on the map below
- Figure out which clubs they relate to
- Find out which player played for those clubs
- Send in your answer
- Pray you’re the only correct answer or you’ll be lucky enough to be drawn out of out hat
There is a reason for picking this week’s player in relation to the weekend’s football, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a ‘topical’ reason. As usual, the flags in the map relate to EVERY CLUB this player has played for in his senior career – including loans. Best of luck.
Competition: Whose Career Is It Anyway
Send your answer to competitions@paddypower.com with the subject line ‘Racking up the airmiles’. 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 September 25 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. If you want to contact me, you can do so using the Twitter machine where I’m @PaddyPowerAidan.
Conditions
- Customers must be over the age of 18, have a valid paddypower.com account and been around long enough to remember Noel’s House Party.
– Maximum size of the free bet will be €/£150.
- Paddy Power decision is final and moaning will be gleefully ridiculed in public.
Hi Aidan
Bit more logical guesswork needed this week, but mail sent. Hopefully in this weeks hat?
Welcome to the hat Magnus. Guess work and a magnifying glass are a must for this one
Bit easier this week, I think. Answer winging it’s way . . am I in “el sombrero” ?
Easier?! That’s disappointing. You are in the hat and you’ve just earned everyone a really tough one for next week, Keef.
No I didn’t mean it like that ! It’s all relative – last week’s was REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hard . . . this one was . . . quite tricky ! (grovel . . .)
Me…. hat…..in ?
Are … yes … you
Am i in the hat? What kind of hat is it anyway?
You are in the hat, Ray.
The hat depends on the number of correct entries. Some weeks it’s a massive stovepipe hat, others it’s a flat-cap that makes me look like an surly worker in the agricultural industry.
i found a clever shortcut to get this player. He is someone I have always hated! but i got it right anyway so i hope i win!
When this competition is over Joseph, I want to hear more about your shortcut.
I once thought there was an easier why than working out the co-ordinates of each place pinpointed on the map, booking a plane ticket to each of those locations, travelling to each of the locations and then asking the locals in their respective languages if they knew of any footballers who had gone on to play in the other locations, but it turned out I was wrong.
. . . that’s funny, I’ve been doing it that way, too !
Pretty handy this week (unless iv made a huge tit of myself and got it wrong)
Dermot, I don’t appreciate your smugness, but smugness alone can’t stop me putting your name in the hat ; )
I for one think smugness should bar you from the hat Aidan but I,m 99.99999% sure I,m in what could a massive stovepipe this week. am I?
Ahhh took me a while ( about 4 minutes ) , but got there in the end
am i correct
think i got it as well
wasnt to hard this one
This hat you talk about, am I in it?
Took me a good hour of searching on Wikipedia but think I got there in the end!
am I in the proverbial hat or real hat? thanks
am i in the hat?
What happened to this competition?
Aidan, have you been away getting flying lessons for the sky tweets and therefore unable to dip your hand long into the stovepipe hat
rumour has it he,s banged up been arrested by the feds in chicago
. . . was that as a result of a slightly over-zealous “session”, er, . . . I mean “time-zone mix-up” with a mate called Rory ?
seemingly they were threatening to arrest the pilots for skywriting and anyone wearing stovepipe hat for impersonating abe lincoln
Good comp eh? Ne winner. Lol!
Who was it by the way? Hernan Crespo?
Whats happen here is the stovepipe was so deep that when Aidan went to pick out the winner he toppled into the stovepipe, and in a situation similar to that in the film Everybodies baby: the rescue of jessica mcclure, he has been stock down stovepipe for days as teams of emergency services try to rescue him. I’m sure once he’s rescued the first thing he’ll do is announce the results!
I think Paddy should move from marketing pants to stove-pipe hats in time for the next Ryder Cup over here.
Bit naff tho innit. A wasted an hour of me life tryin to find the right answer and they can’t even be bothered to pull a name out a hat.
Think we all deserve that free bet by now……..
so no winner then haha
maybe you should start a competition/vote on who will replace Aidan doing the drawing?
Sepp Blatter or Michel Platini, maybe ?
Aidan is working on his tan. We’re having trouble locating his hat. He may have taken it to Ibiza with him.
I think the very least they should do is draw out 3 winners who each get the first prize to make up for the 2 weeks this competition hasn’t been on. (well that is if he ever comes back)
Everyone’s a winner
There’s only about 10 of us here…..10 er each….sorted
we need to start our own football trivia competition if he doesn’t come back soon
What’s the answer by the way? Surely we all gettin a free punt after this fiasco.
yeah they surely should give everyone a free bet!
The answer is Gabriel Heinze, I believe the question was who signed for Manchester United yesterday?
I can only apologise on behalf of whoever is to blame for the tardy resolution of this competition. It’s not me.
Seeing as the creator of this competition is in a region of India which makes it very expensive for me to call him, I’ve no inexpensive way of confirming that the correct answer is Gabriel Heinze. Most of the people who entered seemed to think it was which is good enough.
I’ve picked a winner and a couple of runners-up to make up for the delay. I’m awarding the free bets now and I’ll post the details at the top of this post. Aidan will be back in the office next week, no doubt fuming that we neglected his precious competition.
cheers long wait but presume I was a runner-up, bets on hope its lucky and worth the wait! thanks again and it was 100% gabriel heinze:-)
i’m still awaiting my prize, and i don’t want a pair of them idiotic pants you hear
Quite right, David – I had mine on when I sent my entry in (so they’re not THAT lucky !) and I resolved to keep them on until the result was announced, so, erm . . .