Those aforementioned punters through the company Betsafe were able to pocket a collective 50,000 ($77,740 ) this week from odds of 175-1 that Luis Suarez, so often the game's golden boy, would again degenerate to commit the most primal of physical contacts on a football field.
A relatively small figure given the odds, that 50,000 payout shows they were not betting big amounts on the 'unlikely' prospect, but were still the smart types to identify recidivist behaviour when they see it.
For all the Uruguayans planning on running about with flares and chanting about torching stadiums because Fifa's four-month ban on Suarez has killed their World Cup, come back to the real world and consider for a moment how ridiculous it is that the 27-year-old will be playing again on his multimillion-dollar Liverpool salary within this calendar year.
The forward will be trotting out on pitch by about week 7-8 of the EPL this October. The season ends in late May 2015.
Now contrast that holiday with the 'three strikes law' that governs most Western court systems where if you just won't stop, you gotta go down for life, as the public warning to others that you wouldn't take.
Like the pyromaniac handed a full jerry can and the anarchist hacker presented with a new laptop, Suarez's third shocking indiscretion to follow on from 2010 in the Netherlands (seven-match ban) and Britain last year (10 matches) shows a habitual offender who has zero ability for self-restraint.
The unforgivable has not exactly been forgiven, but it sure can't be said the punishment fits the crime, and Uruguay's Football Association still plans to appeal the sentence with all the legal might it can muster.
Great message for the kids.
Role models? Not a priority this is about having our talented teeth snapper available for the next nine internationals.
Suarez's ban on representing his country till at least the 2018 Fifa qualifiers may handicap his nation, but only lends further credence to how much he is getting away with it personally.
The fine of 100,000 Swiss francs could just about qualify as a tax writeoff by his accountants.
In no way does this sentence impact his quality of professional life, ability to make an income, and therefore, one can suggest, neither does it bring any sense of remorse.
