This is the road to Hull

The big win (well, I'd take any win) is just around the corner. I'm calling 80% of the football matches on which I bet correctly, but there's always one 'coupon buster'.

Take Saturday, for example. I had a £30 accumulator on Man Utd (won 2-0), Reading (won 4-0), Wolves (won 2-0), Scunthorpe (won 2-0), Celtic (won 3-2), Lyon (won 2-1) and Arsenal. Yes Arsenal, whose reserves had beaten a Championship side 6-0 three days previously, who lost at home to Hull for the first time in their history. At 1-5, they were the shortest-priced team on the weekend coupon. And they had cost me nearly £300.

Running total: less than it was yesterday