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.

5th Jan - The reverse Midas touch

Stoke 3 - 2 Fulham

Come on! Who though this was going to be a goalfest? With the snow belting down and the temperatures plummetting these two teams looked like a bore draw. Fulham didn't turn up until the 2nd half by which time Stoke had already stuck 3 past them.
I put £30 on under 2.5 goals - I hate this market now, I've never profitted from it! Loss.

Barcelona 1 - 2 Sevilla

I thought this was nailed on so I lumped quite large on Barcelona. I was going to Lay Sevilla for pretty much all my dosh but the thought of losing it all and then having to report to this blog and the greif I'd get from my thousands of avid readers was too much to handle. AND A BLOODY GOOD JOB TOO!
Backed Barca £50 @ 1.91
Backed Barca £10 @ 4 (after 1st Sevilla goal)
Backed Draw £30 @ 4.2 (ditto)
When Barca equalised the 2nd Sevilla goal was so fast I was unable to do anything in the market! Loss.

All my bets turned out to be losers. A terrible nights Betfairing!

12th Dec Football bets - not great....

Wow - who would've called the Chelsea v Everton game? I traded on the match odds and got +£25.

Stoke v Wigan - I put the bet on using my iPhone then the missus and I went down town. I didn't realise the game was on today as I'd misread the date, game ended in a draw -£30!

Spurs v Wolves - with 10 mins to go I thought Spurs would pull it back. No they didn't -£60. Ouch!

Oh well, at least I had a laugh at Man Utd v Aston Villa and got a tenner of it.