{"id":3211,"date":"2016-04-26T22:41:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/tom-hanks-may-be-set-to-win-a-huge-amount-of-money-on-a-football-bet\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:41:41","slug":"tom-hanks-may-be-set-to-win-a-huge-amount-of-money-on-a-football-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/tom-hanks-may-be-set-to-win-a-huge-amount-of-money-on-a-football-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks may be set to win a huge amount of money on a football bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom_hanks_leicester_city_bet\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzI2LzBjL1RvbV9IYW5rc19MLjI0NmM4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/8722344d\/5c0\/Tom_Hanks_Leicester_City_bet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Tom+Hanks+may+be+set+to+win+a+huge+amount+of+money+on+a+football+bet&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F26%2Ftom-hanks-leicester-city-bet%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F26%2Ftom-hanks-leicester-city-bet%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Tom Hanks may be a football fan and he may be good, but surely he&#8217;s not <i>that<\/i> good.<\/p>\n<p>After a reporter jokes with Hanks in the clip above about Aston Villa (his favourite team) being relegated from the Premier League, he hits back by hinting at a bet he made at the start of the football season.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/24\/dog-crashes-soccer\/\">Dog crashes soccer game and scores the goal to our hearts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Do you know what I did at the beginning of this season?&#8221; says Hanks. &#8220;I put \u00a3100 on Leicester, so I think I&#8217;ll do okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who doesn&#8217;t follow football, Leicester are currently seven points clear at the top of the table. Their odds of winning at the beginning of the season were 5000\/1.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/26\/tom-hanks-leicester-city-bet\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/premier-league\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Premier League<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/uk\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/soccer\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Soccer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/football\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Football<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tom-hanks\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tom Hanks<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/mhIFoHg0vuA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks may be a football fan and he may be good, but surely he&#8217;s not that good. After a reporter jokes with Hanks in the clip above about Aston Villa (his favourite team) being relegated from the Premier League, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/tom-hanks-may-be-set-to-win-a-huge-amount-of-money-on-a-football-bet\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1148,2478,1257,2479,760],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-football","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-tom-hanks","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}