Not bad for a rugby player! Care pockets £2,000 with a £10 Champions League bet

By Luke Benedict

Published: 11:37 EST, 7 November 2012 | Updated: 11:39 EST, 7 November 2012

A lot of professional sportsmen enjoy the occasional flutter, but rarely do they come off quite as spectacularly as Danny Care’s latest gamble.

The England scrum-half put £10 on a four-match accumulator involving Tuesday’s night’s Champions League action and, lo and behold, all four matches — Real Madrid v Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City v Ajax, Dynamo Kiev v Porto and Schalke v Arsenal — ended in draws to win £2,011.10.

The Harlequins No 9 tweeted ‘Ladbrokes just took a hammering..... #cheers boiii!!’ and included a picture of his betting slip.

Jackpot: Danny Care shows off his accumulator betting slip

It looked as if a surprise Real Madrid defeat would cost him his jackpot, but a late free kick from Mesut Ozil completed the clean sweep, cueing Care to tweet: ‘Ozil.....what a legend!’

‘Haven’t won an accumulator in ages so can’t claim to be any good at them! 4 draws always fun to have a dabble on! Me and @roryclegg happy boys!’

Training hard: Danny Care passes the ball during an England training session at Pennyhill Park

England face Fiji, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in consecutive Tests at Twickenham starting on Saturday with head coach Stuart Lancaster naming his team on Thursday morning.