The BBC are staging a live event in Manchester city centre next Friday to mark Easter. While their previous version of the concept, Flashmob the Opera, went well and made great telly - set as it was in a busy commuter station and not in the middle of scally country - I’m going to start being cynical about the success of the Manchester version.
Inspired by yesterday’s Grand National (I’d love to be able to place a deadpan “my horse died, by the way” here - but I can’t), I’m running odds on various outcomes. You can’t actually bet on these because my name isn’t Mr Ladbrokes, but hey.
The current odds then:
Everything goes fine - 10-1
A load of scallies stand constantly around in the background and spend more time mugging into the camera than you’d think humanly possible - 3-1 (J. Fav)
It rains a lot and everyone buggers off home early - 3-1 (J. Fav)
Scallies steal one or more outside broadcast vehicles before joyriding them around the M60 and driving them into the sea - 100-1
I’d go for an insanely long-odds spread bet comprising all of the above.
