"themans" football betting thread...........

[themanwiththeknow]

going to put all my football bets in here from now on and keep a record of all profit/loss! looking to double the "bank" before the end of the season.....

starting bank: 200pts

m'well win @ 4/5 (3pts)

m'well -1 AH @ 2.50 (2pts)

rotheram DNB @ 1.82 (3pts)

accrington/barnet over 2.5 goals @ 1.90 (2pts)

berwick/dumbarton over 2.5 goals @ 1.70 (2pts)

brechin/p'head over 2.5 goals @ 1.80 (2pts)

total staked: 14pts

[themanwiththeknow]

draw at h/t @ 2.75 (5pts)

over 11 coners @ 1.90 (3pts)

vidic 1st g/scorer @ 19.00 (1/2pt) and anytime @ 7.00 (1/2pt)

xerez/celta vigo over 2.5 goals @ 2.30 (2pts)

[themanwiththeknow]

was looking over the teams once they were announced and then looked at prices for 1st g/scorer

pavlyuchenko looked huge at 9/1 against a shambolic utd team so i was going to back him

chinese arrived at the door and when i came bk i changed it too vidic

sods law pavlyuchenko scores 1st at 9/1

[Tony2005]

Loool...there goes the free Chinese

[themanwiththeknow]

cercle brugge/korhrijk

az alkmaar/de graafschap

double pays 2.40 (5pts)

[themanwiththeknow]

one winning bet from 12 yesterday which is absolutely awful and nothing short of embarrassing!!

staked 30pts and got 3.40pts return so a big loss of 26.60pts

looking for some damage control today and hopefully reduce that 26pt loss


ayr to beat arbroath @ 1.61 (5pts)

liverpool -3 corners @ 2.00 (2pts)

a bilbao win or draw @ 1.72 (3pts)

ht draw ft bilboa @ 9.20 (1/2pt)

malaga win or draw @ 1.51 (3pts)

zaragoza to beat vallecano @ 1.57 (5pts)

palermo win @ 2.00 (2pts)

palermo to win by 2 or more goals @ 4.50 (1pt)

inter to win 1-0 or 2-0 @ 3.45 (2pts)

genoa win @ 1.61 (5pts)

genoa -1 goal AH @ 2.05 (2pts)

total staked: 30.5pts

[themanwiththeknow]

loss of 3.02pts today

total loss for the thread: 29.62pts

CLOSING BANK: 170.38pts


plenty of midweek football and will be looking to turn things around and got it bk up before next weekends fixtures

[themanwiththeknow]

ht/ft burton/burton @ 1.91 (5pts)

burton win both halves @ 3.10 (2pts)

pearson 1st g/scorer @ 5.00 (2pts)

pearson anytime @ 2.00 (3pts)

pearson brace @ 6.00 (1pt)

pearson hat-trick @ 26.00 (1/2pt)

harrad 1st g/scorer @ 6.00 (1pt)

harrad anytime @ 2.40 (2pts)

pearson 1st and 3-1 @ 31.00 (1/2pt)

total staked: 17pts

CLOSING BANK: 153.38

[themanwiththeknow]

somehow burton managed to miss about 6-7 great chances to score in the first half and went in level at 0-0

so that cost me 7pts straight away, 5pts on ht win ft win and 2pts on win both hallf

harad did the business to open the scoring @ 5/1 and anytime @ 7/5

total staked: 17pts

total returns: 10.8pts

total loss: 6.20pts

CLOSING BANK: 164.18

[themanwiththeknow]

watford/burnley over 2.5 goals @ 1.90.................WINNER trend continues making it 7 in a row between the 2 over 2.5 goals and 11 of last 13

h'pool/carlisle over 2.5 goals @ 1.95....................WINNER done and dusted before the hr mark game ended 2-2

scunny/oldham over 2.5 goals @ 1.80.................LOSER scunny 2-0 up after 33 mins then no more goals for remaining 60 mins

3 x 3pts doubles (2.11pts profit)


gillingam win @ 1.90.......................LOSER run of good form comes to an end, 1-0 up then lost 2-1

wrexham -1.5 goals @ 2.12................LOSER game ended 3-3, really need to stay away from awful conference football

3pts double (3pt loss)


pompy/villa over 3.5 cards @ 2.10......................WINNER bet safe after 71 mins once pompy went down to 10 men, game ended with 6 cards and trend continues making it 5 red cards in last 4 betwen the 2 at fratton park
h'pool/carlisle over 3.5 goals @ 3.50....................WINNER j porter goal 5 mins from time lands the 5/2 shot after game finishes 2-2

watford/burnley over 3.5 goals @ 3.50.................LOSER one goal to few, game ended 3-0 so the over 2.5 goal trend continues but the over 3.5 comes to an end

3 x 1pt doubles (4.35pt profit)

total staked: 15pts (total returns: 18.46........3.46pt profit)

CLOSING BANK: 149.18