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.

28th Dec, trading in the stadium

Forest 2 - 0 Coventry

Backed Forest £80 @ 1.63

Coventry may have won their last 3 games but c'mon, they were against Peterborough, Plymouth and Doncaster. And the Doncaster game they fluked it, so I was pretty confident Forest would turn them over. Turned out that Coventry put up quite a fight traded out after the 1st goal for a £22 profit. Win.

Posh 4 - 4 Cardiff

Backed Cardiff £40 @ 2.28

Cardiff were obviously going to thrash the hapless Posh and I traded out after the 1st Cardiff goal. I was kicking myself at halftime as they were 4-nil up and it probably traded at 1.01 after goal 3. Ah...I would have got a lot more if I'd have waited. Unbelievable that Posh then scored 4 themselves in the 2nd half - but that's the kind of mental sh*t Posh get up to. Traded out for £25 profit. Win


Wolves 0 - 3 Man City

Backed Man City £70 @ 1.88

Just because I'm still sick of McCarthy...and the usual 'new manager bounce' from Mancini. Traded out after the 2nd goal @ 1.03 for a £55 profit.

What a great day! My mate Dave asked me if watching the numbers distracted from the whole matchday experience, no way man, I was like a pig in muck!

Spurs v Man City

I had backed the over 2.5 goals and I was sat here thinking of how I could write my next blog post, trying to put the positive spin on losing 50 quid. Ouch.....

It was deep in injury time with Spurs 2-0 up, they were fannying around by the corner flag running the clock down. Which is fair enough, that's what you should do. Then Kranjcar nips between a couple of defenders, makes a bee line for the goal and megs Shay Given in the 93rd minute!

Oh crap, this is too stressful. Anyway +£38.

P.S. Well done Burnley getting a draw against Arsenal. Are you watching McCarthy?

Man City vs Arsenal >2.5 goals

I wasn't watching this one and I decided to let the money ride on this and not trade out. Turned out I was lucky as Weiss scored the 3rd with pretty much the least kick of the match.

Both teams have been free scoring lately so I thought it might have been a bit more of a goal fest. +£25 to me...