Ireland Now Bookies’ World Cup Favourites After Bulgaria Win

DESPITE being 18 months away and Japan the only non-host nation having already qualified, the bookies have dramatically slashed the odds of Ireland winning the 2026 World Cup after a 2-1 away win against Bulgaria.

“I CAN’T SEE past them,” said one Irish fan in Bulgaria, whose vision impairment may be down to his intake of Guinness and not Ireland’s red hot one-game unbeaten streak.

“Even if I think they won’t win, we’re overexposed due to the insane volume of Irish fans placing their life savings on Ireland the seconds after Matt Doherty’s header,” said one bookmaker who has moved Ireland to 1/33 favourites to win the biggest price in international football.

Bookies have also taken into consideration external factors such as America deciding the entire world and not just Canada, Greenland and Panama is ‘American territory’ therefore setting up a slimmed down two-team World Cup involving only America and Ireland.

“Gianni Infantino will be devastated as he wants a 432 team world cup, but posing in a few more photos with Trump, Putin and MBS should soften the blow,” said one expert in spineless money grabbing.

Elsewhere, after the occurrence of the first recorded death of a migrant construction worker, Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, on the site of one of the Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup stadiums, the bookies have paid out on their being ‘zero consequences’.