The infra-draw method was a scheme designed to profit from gambling on the results of football matches, invented by Horace Batchelor (1898–1977), and advertised heavily on Radio Luxembourg during the 1950s and ’60s.[1]

Batchelor’s system was not based on any analysis of the form of the teams involved. Members of his system clubbed together to enter many permutations of scores and then shared the takings, each receiving only a small fraction of the winnings.[2]

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Until the introduction of the National Lottery in 1994, football pools were the only way to win a significant amount of money from a small stake. As at 2013, more than £3.2bn in winnings had been paid to 61 million people.[3]

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