I assume his famliy were the match sponsors.
To be fair it was one of those matches that was so bad they should've announced that nobody was motm today.
I had this with Morethan a couple of years ago. When I rang them up they came up with a new offer only slightly higher than the comparison site quote. This year their offer was more or less the same as the comparison site price.
Apparently your chairman has been out of the country for a few weeks but returned today, so no nothing could probably be done before today. Odds of 1-16 suggests more than just a few bets being placed on somebody.