Football is a contact sport. Whenever players challenge for the ball they use their arms. Oscar could have run straight through it, he chose not to. Pathetic.

Lucky Costa, but Chelsea just about value for their win. I don’t think there was any malice in that challenge – not a straight red, but absolutely a yellow, it was late, over the ball and through Adrian’s ankle. Cracking finish from Costa for the winner. and lucky West Ham. We had two clear penalti...

Lucky Costa, but Chelsea just about value for their win. I don’t think there was any malice in that challenge – not a straight red, but absolutely a yellow, it was late, over the ball and through Adrian’s ankle. Cracking finish from Costa for the winner.

Have had 5 bets so far this season, decent start, thanks to Diego Costa. Backed Fulham to beat Newcastle at 3/1 Lost three bets - Liverpool to win 3-1 at Arsenal (looked great for a couple of minutes, but should have layed it off), Sanchez first goal (why did Walcott take the bloody pen?!) and Terry...

You're right. Unfortunately I have now done it. Alan Brazil this morning said on talksport that he thought 3.5 to 1 for the draw was good value. I have just put a small fiver on the draw. I don't want to risk more than that on a very difficult to predict game. You're addicted. And you're ignoring a...

Don’t want you to feel you’re getting a hard time here – just interested in your thought process. You staked £18 to win £10 based on a snippet of Owen Hargeaves’ thoughts. That’s where you went wrong. You wanted to bet so much you threw £18 on a game you hadn’t picked up until half time. On your ana...

Why did you back Dortmund against Bayern?

From Despair To Where? Do Barnsley have a sell on clause? Could be a good bit of business for them too.

Understood to be 15%, nets them a cool £7m.

As I said on the betting thread, the pre-season Fulham has looked a decent unit, a few new signings like Madl and Aluko are of the right kind of quality; key for Fulham won't imho be at the back (where they struggled) or up front (where they are Aluko, Cairney, Woodrow and that big lump Matt Smith) ...

So after advising TF not to bet at the start of the season, I'm going to have a medium sized nibble tonight at Craven Cottage - Fulham are unbeaten in pre-season and there are some good 'feels' around the place, a team including new signings that have gelled pretty quickly and moved on from the loss...

Only saw him in the home game last year, but thought he was very ordinary. That free-kick he took was hilarious. I believe about 5 people ran over the ball only for him to smack it straight into the wall ..... IIRC He was arguably Fulham's best player last season - works incredibly hard, a bit of a...

And being a bit shit at Everton has bagged Roberto Martinez the Belgium manager's job. That's Belgium, ranked 2nd in the world. Roberto Martinez.

This is Adi Viveash?!

Had no idea he was Chelsea u-21s boss.

Diame and Clark in at Newcastle - and they look set to be compensated for Sissoko's leaving by taking a couple of Madrid youngsters on loan too, as if they need them. Beginning to come round to the view that our points record may be threatened.

Of course those games look like that - it's the first week of the season. Give it a few weeks to settle down, get a feel for who is performing, where, who is scoring, who isn't, who has the best defence, and so on. Match betting in the first few weeks of the season is a mug's game.

And I'll get off your back after this post, but don't bet on everything . I got in that sort of rut at uni, my BetFair account would always have £100 in it (student LOLoan) and I'd be coming in from nights out and betting on US horse racing or tennis in the Far East for no reason other than it was l...

Yep. I don't know about half the time, but it looks a decent bet if indeed you think Fulham will struggle. Those odds have been boosted of course by a couple of decent signings and an unbeaten run during pre-season. Did you check that out? 8/1 means that the bet is value if there is more than 11% ch...

Good betting is all about finding value and assessing risk, isn't it? Correct. So why did you back Pakistan in the 2nd Test 'because they won the 1st Test'? England's record at Old Trafford is excellent. How much do you know about the AFL? Quite a lot I assume, to have bet on the winners of the lea...

How do you set up a stop loss on sports betting? I understand setting up a stop loss if you are spread betting the currency markets on GKFX. But how would you set up a stop loss on Bet365 or Betfair betting on a football match? That was my point, it's a 'manual' stop loss, and almost unworkable. In...

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Is it a good idea to lay off a 0-0 draw for example? As soon as there is a goal you've won your bet.

'The 0-0 game' has gone down somewhat in online betting folklore.
You are generally getting odds of 1/7 or 1/8 on there being a goal in a game, so its very difficult to make a big return.