Hell-Bent on going skint

Since Black Sunday, things have got little better. As I can’t afford to continue my strategy with goals and corners, I am selectively backing matches that I fancy. But I am still getting far more wrong than right.

There were three live matches on last Sunday (Hibernian v Hearts, Wigan v Spurs and Man Utd v Chelsea), providing me with six opportunities to follow my strategy (total goals and total corners). I made five of the six bets – they all lost. The only one I didn’t do (“more than two goals” in the Man Utd v Chelsea game) was the only winner. Another £100 down the drain. Someone up there doesn’t like me.

Yesterday, there were four matches being played. As I was going to West Ham v Fulham, and had lost £200 on the previous afternoon, I decided not to have a bet. When I returned after West Ham’s facile victory, I discovered that the first three games of the day had all featured “more than two goals”, meaning that I would have been quids in had I followed my usual strategy. So I had a large bet on “more than two goals” in the Tottenham v Portsmouth match. It finished 1-1, with David James making several outstanding saves and Darren Bent missing an open goal from two yards.

I also had £12 on a horse in the last race of the day, with the intention of laying it off in running for a profit of a couple of quid. But I became engrossed in the football, and by the time I had remembered about the race, my horse had finished second last and I had recorded yet another losing bet. My luck has to change soon.