Diary of a Football Fanatic!

Hello and welcome!

You know it's time to worry when you receive an email from someone asking if you're still alive.

Folks, I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that no I'm not dead. In fact, I'm far from it.

The bad news is that it's been over 60 days since I've updated this blog and that's just too long.

However, I'm back with avengence and ready to rock 'n' roll once again. I'm planning on making new posts once (maybe twice) a week and taking it from there.

But enough about that, let's move onto other things:

I discovered a pretty interesting (or it was interesting for me, anyway) football story recently on the BBC. In the 90's there was a footballer from Ghana called Abedi Pele. Now, from what I gather, 'Pele' was some footballer who played from some big sides (like Marseilles when they were one of the best teams in Europe) and I think he won 'African Player of the Year' a few times, too. Anyway, he's since retired from football and several years ago started his own football academy in Ghana. The idea was to register a team who would have to start in the bottom league and then work up the leagues to reach Ghana's top-flight. From winning successive promotions they climbed up into the second division and, on the last game of the season, needed to win to guarantee their promotion to the highest league.

What happened? They won 38-0. 

Surprise, surprise the authorities looked into the matter and found that there was match fixing going on. Seriously, how dumb can you get? If you're gonna' do it, please make it believable.

Furthermore, another team who needed to win to guarantee promotion won their game 28-0. Again, investigations showed that the game had been fixed.

I'm lead to believe that everyone involved (officials, players, coaching staff, board members) have been stripped of the right to be involved in the sport of football for a few years and the teams involved have been sent down into the basement league. Rightly so, in my opinion, too.

Quick change of topic:

It's been interesting to see how many twists and turns have been made at the end of this season (in all of the leagues). From a betting perspective, it could be lucrative to start trading on teams whose prosepcts of avoiding 'the drop' look bleak (like West Ham) and vice-versa (like Wigan) with the expectation that their fortunes will turn.

Something to think about for next season, perhaps...

Have a good one,

Josh.

P.S. Let's all hope Spurs beat Charlton today and land earn European football next season.

Hello and welcome!

In this blog, I have been very, very careful not to promote anything that I don't think has any merit. In fact, I've never really promoted anything... ever.

However, today I'm going to change that with my top recommendation of Football Trading Profits. I'm sure many of you will have heard about it by now and it's going to be responsible for making many punters some addition income.

But I won't bang on about it. Instead, I'll simply say that it has my highest recommendation and that blood and sweat has gone into making it more comprehensive and more profitable than anything else offered anywhere.

If you're interested in finding out further details, check out the following: http://www.footballtradingprofits.com.

Only other thing worth mentioning is that the price is going up in a matter of days - that's not some bogus lie either... I can guarantee that the price will rise.

Hopefully, I find the time to post system selections this Friday. Until then...

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

First things first... West Ham 3 - 4 Spurs... What a game!

Right, now that's out of my system I can continue...

It's been a while since I had the time to post on this blog - I've been slammed with stuff to do just recently.

Anyway, the good news is that the end is in sight and I should be able to start regular posts again soon (I know... I have said this before and failed to do so ).

One such thing I've been working on is Football Betting 101, a free football betting guide I've created. It discusses in detail real techniques that I myself use to identify value football bets.

I feel it's a topic that many people often talk about as being important, however, I found that no one actually discusses just how to find those value bets - so I've decided to set the record straight!

To get your copy, simply visit http://www.profitablepunter.com and sign-up to my newsletter. You then just confirm your subscription and Football Betting 101 will be at your finger tips in a tick.

NOTE:  If you are already a member of my newsletter (and many of you are), simply check your emails. You will have an email from me with the download link.

Like I say, I hope to start kicking some bookmaker butt with this blog once again in a short while and will try to start tracking the systems this coming weekend. Until then...

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

It's been a while since I made posts on this blog. I've been wittering like a beaver on steroids recently and just not had time for the blog.

Last week was FA Cup week as well, so system selections were put on hold. On the topic of the FA Cup, I though Spurs might struggle against Fulham, but evidently that was not the case (we thrashed them 4-0). Unfortunately, we've been drawn at Stamford Bridge for the quarter-finals. We've already beaten Chelski once this season, my guess is it's going to take a super-human effort and 100% fit squad to even to repeat that feat.

Some of you may know, I've got a product launch planned soon and that has consumed much of my time. At the moment, I'm just trying to offers as much value to the product as I possibly can, through extra bonuses of cutting-edge methods I've been looking at, etc.

All things being well, it will be out very, very soon and I will be able to make regular updates on this blog again.

My next post on this blog should be Thursday/Friday post up system selections before the weekend, so watch out for that. With the great success of the Sequence System, I'm thinking about backing selections with my own money.

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

What can I say about the way this system has been progressing? I think there has only been one losing week as this keeps going from strength to strength. Here are the results...

Actual bet record
Total staked		125
Total returned		190.75
Yield		1.526	53%
Winners		17
Losers		8
Strike Rate		68%
Current bank		165.75
Profit/Loss		65.75

The numbers are looking very good, as the moment - I just hope this keeps up!

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

The last few weeks haven't been great for this system and it's now gone from turning a profit, to showing a loss. Results as they stand look as follows:

Actual bet record
Total staked		40
Total returned		33
Yield		0.825	-18%
Winners		2
Losers		6
Strike Rate		25%
Current bank		93
Profit/Loss		-7

Hopefully things improve come the end of the season, or I may need to think about replacing this system...

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

I've posted selections of the other systems in the posts below. For some reason, I don't think I got around to updarting the results from the bets of week 4, so I'll just incoorporate them in the results update I'll make after this weekend.

All the best with your punting!

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Below are the games that qualify and the best odds I could find for the draw.

Tottenham vs. Man. Utd - 3.60
Boston vs. Grimsby 3.3

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Below are the qualifying matches - you'll see the teams we're backing in bold with the best odds on them to win to the right of the fixture.

Middlesbrough vs. Arsenal -1.83
Liverpool vs. Everton - 1.57
Southampton vs. Derby - 3.21
Hull vs. West Brom - 2.30
Swindon vs. Harlepool - 2.20
Hereford vs. Stockport - 2.90

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Spurs have just been dumped out of the Carling Cup and I'm less than ecstatic. After equalising, I thought we might go on to win it and now I'm left wondering why.

Overall things are going reasonably well at the Lane, but there are some underlying problems that I think Martin Jol needs to address. Firstly, I can't understand his dislike towards Anthony Gardner. Every time he plays, he does well and he may have been on a yellow-card tonight, but was there any real need to sub him. Secondly, it's time we stepped it up in the transfer market. Fair enough, investing in young players is a good strategy, but it's time we combined that with the signing of genuine quality, as opposed to average footballers. Maybe it's too early to judge Rocha, but buying a quality centre back to challenge Dawson and King, is what's really needed.

The same thing applies for the midfield, Zokora/Jenas/Huddlestone need someone to compete with them.

Where we've invested with big money up front with Berbatov, we've seen good results. We just need equally good additions in other positions.and co. might see.

In the summer, Jonathon Woodgate will probably be sold by Real Madrid - I'd at least like to see us try and compete for his signature. Left back is a problem position for us and with some reports today suggesting Bridge regrets signing his new Chelsea contract, he could be another option.

We also look flat when Lennon isn't there and the defence looks so much better when King is around. Those two, along with Berbatov were big misses tonight (possibly our best three players).

I just hope in the summer the likes of Ghaly are replaced by players with Champions League pedigree.

Rant over.

Have a good one,

Josh.

P.S. I try to talk about Spurs as little as possible tonight and just stick to betting topics, but I couldn't help myself this time.

Hello and welcome!

FA Cup means I won't be tracking system selections this weekend, but this should resume as normal, afterwards. I've been so busy, this blog has been put on the back burner a little, but I'll start posting four times a week, like I used to when things have settled down.

Also, congratualtions Brian, Nikola, Nicholas, Arnon, Terry, Steven and Kevin. All of you have been chosen by me to get a free copy of my football trading guide and I'll be emailing you all shortly.

Have a good one,

Josh.

P.S. I'm having Excel problems at the moment, but as soon as I get them resolved, I'll post up the results of the system selections from last week.

Hello and welcome!

The competitions I ran are now closed. Thanks for everyone who participated. Some responses made me laugh, some were slightly depressing, a couple of the suggested names were ludicrous and one email left me completely confused!

This weekend, I'm going to read over each of the emails again and pick the winners, which I will have sorted come the start of next week.

As far as the systems got for this weekend, both picked out the Liverpool vs. Chelsea game which I think is a first in the history of this blog, but I've included both picks all the same.

Tottenham travel to Fulham this weekend and I desperately hope we can win an away game. After a while, it stops being funny.

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Below are the games that qualify and the best odds I could find for the draw.

Liverpool vs. Chelsea - 3.25

Ipswich vs. Colchester - 3.30

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Below are the qualifying matches - you'll see the teams we're backing in bold with the best odds on them to win to the right of the fixture.

Liverpool vs. Chelsea - 2.88
Crystal Palace vs. Hull - 2.3
Southend vs. Derby - 4.5
Millwall vs. Rotherham - 1.91

I have to admit this week looks tricky. Chelsea will obviously be tough opponents for Liverpool, Hull are away (Palace have won their last 2 games as well), Derby are away (Southend have also won their last 2) and Millwall have struggled this season.

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Week 3 was a bit of a mixed bag. Profit with the Draw System, but a pretty bad week for the Sequence System. Having said that, both are in good profit so I can't complain. although it's too early to know how they will fair come the end of the season, though.

Also, I'm going to close the competitions tomorrow. If you want to get any entries in, they need to be done pretty swiftly.

Have a good one,

Josh.

P.S. Wait 'till you see what's coming soon.

Hello and welcome!

Only one bet for this system this week and it was a winner

Actual bet record
Total staked		20
Total returned		33
Yield		1.65	65%
Winners		2
Losers		2
Strike Rate		50%
Current bank		113
Profit/Loss		13

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

Not a great week for this system, but still in profit.

Barton missed an open goal for City as well, which would have landed us in a small profit (seem to remember Jaskaleinen making a string of great saves, too). Am I the only one who thinks Barton is seriously over-rated and think he's better than he is (i.e. good enough to ask for £50k a week)?

Profit/loss figures look as follows...

Here's to hoping next weekend is better.

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

On Thursday's post I mentioned that I had something of interest to announce for Friday. Unfortunately, I got caught up with stuff to do so had to postpone 'till today, but without further delay I'll expand on what I was referring to.

Firstly, and this is something I've hinted at in the past, I have a guide coming out on making money from the betting exchanges through trading on football. I don't want to give too much away at this stage, but the 'package' is going to include more than a simple ebook (although there will be an ebook to suppliment everything) - I want it to be acomprehensive guide revealing various ways to profit from trading on football.

Everytime I try to come up with something to call it, I hit a dead-end so I've decided to run a competition, where the winner gets a copy of the product 100% free, before it goes out to the general public.

You simply email your suggestions on what I should name the product to josh@profitablepunter.com  and whoever comes up with the name I decide to use wins and gets the free copy of my guide.

If the winning name is submitted by two or three different people, the man (or woman) who emailed me first will definitetly get a free copy and, I expect I'll let the other contestant have a free copy, too (although anymore than three and it will only go to the fastest response).

Anyone can enter the competition, but there is a limit of sending 5 name entries (of course, you can send less if you want).

To stand the best possible chance of winning your title will need to be revevant to football trading and benefit orientated (something like Easy Trader Pro is good, although that name has already been taken by someone).

Now I also need some testimonials to put on the sales page. While others may just make them up, I want genuine comments from real punters and, because of this, I've decided to offer a second competition. In this competition, I'm looking to give away a handful of free copies of my package to punters willing to send me their thoughts on it, which I may decide to put up on the sales page. All you need to do is send me an email saying why you think I should give you a free copy in exchange for a testimonial. The handful of responses I like the best will win and be sent free copies.

As a side note, I'm producing something that deals with profitable football betting. It'll be like a crashcourse that will cater for anyone and give an insight to what how one full-time punter I've been in touch with makes his living. I'm going to make this freely available to everyone, too.

I'll close both competitions once I've found what I was looking for. It could be as soon as tomorrow, so you'll want to get your entries in ASAP.

Let me know if you've got any questions.

Have a good one,

Josh.

P.S. Feel free to enter both competitions, if you want. Remember, emails should be directed to josh@profitablepunter.com.

Hello and welcome!

I decided to post system selections for this weekend's fixtures tonight and save tomorrow for something else I have planned.

I've been very busy lately and you'll see what I've been working on tomorrow. Aside from that, I also have something else that's been up my sleeve and will be ready next week. First dibs will go out to my newsletter subscribers, but I'll make it freely available to all in good time.

Methinks you're going to like all of the things I've been working on the past few weeks.

I'd like to say I'll be writing more 'content' type posts during the week, but that's unlikely to happen until things slow down after January.

You'll definitely want to watch this space.

Have a good one,

Josh.

Hello and welcome!

There is  only one selection for this week. Below is that game that qualifies and the best odds I could find for the draw, although several games came very close.

Torquay vs. Bury - 3.30

Have a good one,

Josh.