for fewer correct predictions are also awarded. The Intertoto Cup football competition was inaugurated by the football pools companies of central Europe to provide matches for their toto coupons during the summer months. In popular culture The pools feature prominently in the British films Easy Money (1948) and Home and Away (1956) starring Jack Warner, the Italian films Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959) and Al bar dello sport (1983), and the Spanish films La quiniela (1960) and Jenaro, el de los 14 (1974). In "The Football Pools," the final episode of the fifth television series of Hancock's Half Hour (1959), Tony Hancock has picked seven draws and nervously attends a late-kickoff match with the eighth draw and top dividend on the line. Viv Nicholson's life after her win of more than £152,000 in 1961 was made into the musical "Spend Spend Spend". Charles Causley's poem Timothy Winters begins "Timothy Winters comes to school, With eyes as wide as a football pool". This was used prominently by Christopher Eccleston's character in Hearts and Minds, a 1995 television series. See also Gambling in the United Kingdom Footy tipping Sports betting Horace Batchelor, radio promoter of the "Famous Infra-Draw Method" Covering code for the mathematics behind continental European pools References Further reading Hubert Phillips, Pools and the Punter, Watts, London, 1955 Mark Clapson, A Bit of a Flutter: Popular Gambling and English Society, 1823–1961 (1992) External links A Game of Two Halves? The Business of Football Internet Archive copy Sports betting Fantasy sports Association football culture Gambling in the United Kingdom