£2 to £31k – is this lucky line of the year?

EVERY week in the Daily Record I give away a £50 free bet to the person who sends in the Line of the Week.

I've had some crackers this year including a £2 bet that paid more than £18k last week on a fourteenfold.

That was good but what about this effort on Wednesday from a Ladbrokes punter in Devon whose £2 twelvefold from matches in England and Spain paid £31,302.32, including 20-1 and 11-1 shots in Copa del Rey.

Raheem Sterling's winner in the last kick of the Man City v Southampton game ensured the monster acca was still standing – and losing on a 1-5 when you had a 20-1 winner would have been a bummer.

Lleida Esportiu were 11-1 at Real Sociedad and after being 2-0 down at half-time against the La Liga outfit the third-tier side driftedcto 150-1.

But an 89th-minute winner for the minnows coupled with a 95th-minute winner for 20-1 shots Formentera (also in Spain's third division) away at Athletic Bilbao completed an amazing success.

Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “It's always great to see a huge outsider win in the cup – this punter backed two. It's always great when your bet is completed by a last-minute winner – this punter relied on three. The customer in question has shown us all how it's done and we're taking our hats off to him today.”

I'm not sure how he picked them and why you'd range the prices from 1-20 to 20-1 but what a lift. Here's the bet in full.

How to go from £2 to £31k in 90 minutes

Manchester City 2-1 Southampton (1-5)

Barcelona 5-0 Real Murcia (1-14)

Las Palmas 2-3 Deportivo La Coruna (7-4)

Atletico Madrid 3-0 Elche (1-10)

Sevilla 4-0 Cartagena (1-20)

Athletic Bilbao 0-1 Formentera (20-1)

Real Sociedad 2-3 Lleida Esportiu (11-1)

Arsenal 5-0 Huddersfield (2-11)

Bournemouth 1-2 Burnley (13-5)

Chelsea 1-0 Swansea (1-7)

Everton 4-0 West Ham Utd (6-5)

Stoke 0-3 Liverpool (4-9)

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