ANTOINE Semenyo’s 98th-minute winner against Stevenage last weekend made thousands of Newport County AFC supporters very happy indeed, but for three football fans it was even more special.

The substitute’s super strike at Rodney Parade earned a trio of lucky punters nearly £130,000 between them.

One Sky Bet customer was celebrating after turning £5 into £21,481 with an 11-leg accumulator that hinged on County finding a winner.

He or she will have been nervously following the action in Newport last Saturday as the match was level at 1-1 deep into stoppage time before Semenyo’s last-gasp winner.

Elsewhere in the country, another punter was also sweating on the Exiles’ result and willing Michael Flynn’s men to find the net as the minutes ticked away.

A pot of £22,850.41 was about to be snatched out of the palms of the player in question, with the last leg of their £2 Coral 12-fold effort relying on a County win.

With the average UK wage coming in at £27,600, landing the pot looks even more impressive in context.

Semenyo’s goal, incredibly, also landed another lucky Ladbrokes punter a massive £84,843 prize from a £5 seven-fold match result and both-teams-to-score wager.

The bet required Portsmouth to beat AFC Wimbledon, Colchester United to beat Crawley Town, County to beat Stevenage, Northampton Town to beat Forest Green Rovers, Solihull Moors to beat Ebbsfleet United, Dundee United to beat Partick Thistle and Elgin City to beat Cowdenbeath – all with both teams to score.

Andy Williams’ 97th-minute winner for the Cobblers and Semenyo’s strike completed an unlikely outcome.

Alex Apati of Ladbrokes told The Sun: “It was very much a weekend for favourite-backers in the lower leagues and while plenty of accas landed, this has to be the biggest and best we’ve seen for some time.”