The Syndicate

The gambling powerhouse that is our syndicate isn't posting very strong figures for its first week of operation...

Accounts after Week 1

Incomings:
Joining fees: £60

Outgoings:
Wednesday 19th: £7 (potential win of £185)
Thursday 20th: £5 (potential win TBD)
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Total in Kitty: £48
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Thursday night is UEFA CUP night

Our bet was bust last night by Fenerbahce winning. To be honest that was a bad pick by us and we should have remembered that Inter Milan would be understrength after the suspensions that were still in effect from last year.

Tonights picks (avoiding Aberdeen because of close emotional ties!!)

Spartak to WIN
Blackburn to WIN
Leverkusen to WIN
Bayern Munich to WIN
Atletico Madrid to WIN
Villareal to WIN
Everton to WIN

The bet is a £5 accumulator.

Away win for Blackburn should bring the odds up nicely.

Odds On Favourites

Todays sees the start of our hugely expensive (20 BIG ONES to buy in) betting syndicate. After much deliberation our 2 bets for tonight were:

Bet #1

Arsenal to win at home against Sevilla
Barca to give Lyon a pasting at home
Inter to win at Fenerbahce
PSV to win at home against CSKA moscow
Roma to lay the smack down against Dynamo Kiev in Romw
Slavia prague to give Steaua Bucharest a beating in Prague
And Man U to rob a victory in Lisbon against Sporting Lisbon.

Odds at approx 31/1 for the accumlative bet.

Bet #2

Wins for Inter, Man U and Roma in Fenerbahce, Lisbon and Rome respectively.

Odds at approx 4/1

Tuesday is Champions League night

Telegraphs guide to the groups (Telegraph)

Mourinho talks about eggs (The Mail)

Torres to make his champions debut (Telegraph)

Secret to winning the champions league (The Independent)

Kenny miller pretends he's good at Derby (Guardian)

Porto talk a good game (The Sun)

Rooney reckons he's ready (The Sun)

Younger then I look

I am a day younger than I actually am. This is an awesome fact and one that exists because the nurse who helped delivery me on that very important day got her days mixed up and put in the previous days date on the birth cert. Maybe there was a reason for this, maybe she just wasn't very bright ( and yes I know a nurse could be a him but come on we're talking about Ireland in the 70s here folks !!). Either way the result is my birth cert and when my mum says I was born are conflicting dates and my mum went through enough for me to give her the benefit of the doubt and her recollection is my official birthday.
I've been trying to figure out if there's some way I could turn this bit of info to some kind of use. Suggestions welcome but right now my best is that in 80 years or so from now I'll beat some guy by one day to being oldest man alive and as he dies (the day before I go) after missing out on the newspaper coverage and medals and large parades I have been so lucky to receive I explain on his death bed that it was all a big mistake and he's actually older than me. I'm sure he'll take the joke in the spirit it was intended

Missed a sitter...

I go on hols for 7 days and miss one amazing Champs League game and another excellent SPL performance by the hoops!! Still, the time off from work was much needed and I managed to get a couple of rounds of golf in.

So to switch themes for a bit here's a couple of golfing vids from dugout from youtube:

Tiger woods ad 1
balls in the balls is always funny
Murder of on the teebox
An awesome gorilla