Football traders are rarely harder worked than during a World Cup, but at the same time they have been looking forward to it. Will Daniels, senior trader at Spreadex, explains: “There’s football all the time on television, and not all of it is very good or meaningful. At a World Cup you know that it all matters.”
Not least of the demands over the coming month will be the sheer volume of trades. Chris Shillington, trading spokesman for Extrabet, says: “It will be the biggest sports spread betting event for four years. We expect to do about a third of our annual turnover on the World Cup alone.”
