I felt like I’d lost this weekend so it was nice when I tallied up and found a miniscule profit. Sporting Gijon had a huge victory at Valencia on Saturday night and played very very well. Real Madrid lost and with Van Nistelrooy out for the season I think they have a real uphill task to hang on to their league title. They lost Robinho and never had any cover and with Ruud gone they will have to rely on Raul, Higuain, the injury prone Robben and Drenthe and that’s not a good place to be.

As the season goes on there always see to be teams I keep an eye on and Derby are one of them. Again they won at home at a price of evens and disappointed I wasn’t on.

I really thought the Arsenal corner bet would have been a winner when I saw the score was 2-0 to Villa but they beat them by 3 so we got our money back. The Chelsea clean sheet bet was a winner and one to keep an eye on again this season. Brum and Charlton shared 5 goals so we lost the over 2.5 bet. I will keep an eye out for more of those though. Wolves won at Southampton but Toulouse were 2-0 at HT against Grenoble so we lost there and overall on the weekend made 0.01 of a point and am sure we won’t make a smaller profit all season. At least we made a profit!

48 bets (44½ points staked) :: 18 win – 5 void – 1 half void/loss – 24 losses :: +2.3

* This does not include the 2 antepost bets.

Will look at any midweek games tonight and on Monday and post up bets then.

"If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun." - Chico Marx