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!

My name is Josh and my intention is to create a gambling blog with a difference. None of this 'today I traded on...' business. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with that, at all. It's actually helpful, I just want this blog to be unique.

Being the football fanatic that I am, the majority of talk will be centered around 'the beautiful game', naturally. However, when possible, you'll find horse betting info, trading tips and possibly even the odd poker hint every now and then on here, too. Add some humor into the mix, along with fundamental gambling concepts every punter needs to grasp, little gambling anecdotes and the occassional rant on news related to football and you've got a pretty good idea of what this blog will be about. On top of this, I'll be trialling my own little gambling systems... ones I've often thought of trying, but never got around to testing. I'll probably have a few of these going on at the same time and will record the rules, progess and changes to these systems.

I'll be updating regularly and hope to grow this into one of the main gambling blogs.

I think that covers it for now. Tomorrow I'll be going more into who I am, my experience with gambling and get this motor roaring.

If you read this, it would be great if you could leave a comment. That way, I know I'm not just talking to myself!

Have a good one,

Josh.