Sat 16th Jan - England and Africa

Stoke 1 - 1 Liverpool

Backed Stoke for £35 as I thought they had a chance of turning them over, everyone can see that Liverpool are rocking recently. As it turns out a draw was the result, which if I had been more risk averse, I should have gone for. Anyway, Stoke had chances to win it - at least I didn't lose much.

Everton 2 - 0 Man City

Backed City for £50. This was Cities first test under Manchini as the other teams they'd pretty much expect to win. I was surprised by how easy Everton won, another loss for me. I also put another fiver on the draw in the 2nd half in case City fought back.

Nigeria 1 - 0 Benin (African Cup of Nations)

Back Nigera £200 @ 1.73 - and traded out for a £93 profit. I could have held on for the full £150 but as it turned out to be just 1-0 it would have been very dangerous to do so.

Egypt 2 - 0 Mozambique (African Cup of Nations)

Seen plenty of TeeGypt to know that they are a class act, also chasing their 3rd straight tournement win. So I backed them £100 @ 1.4 and left it on there until the end of the game to get the full £40 back, to help make up for the City game.


Quite a lot of money thrown around today for not much in the way of profit. Didn't have chance to bet on any Spanish games and it looks like it did me a favour as Real were held to a draw.

Liverpool v Arsenal >2.5goals market

Everyone remebers the last time they met, goalfest. The only downer is that Rafa sees fit to only start one striker. Arsenal start 3!
Anyway, after the 2nd goes in I trade out for £40 profit - shame as no more than five minutes later Arsenal score again and I would have got £100. Oh well, a profits a profit and the amount of time I've let money ride only for no goals to come.

+£43 to me.

Sat / Sun 29th Football bets

Made £10 on the Liverpool v Everton game backing Liverpool, traded out at 1.01.

Made another £15 on Arsenal v Chelsea >2.5goals market after trading out on the 2nd goal.

Backed Barca to beat Real and traded out after the 1st goal - made another £teen's amount.

The idea is not to be greedy and get out when you have greened up. So far so good.