Beren

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3-0 up, and that's [barring an unlikely Belarus comeback!] £63 secured from a lump.

it stands for Queen Park Rovers. At risk of a whoosh, Rangers* !

A bit It's a bit like a "system" of sorts for a Roulette table at a casino that I was once told of: Keep betting on black, and if you lose, double your stake. It requires capital to begin with [and you ought to start relatively small (relative to your own capital, that is)], and now I'm a bit older than when I first started betting [and a bit richer] I can afford to apply that same logic to football... ...and over the course of a season, the Manures, Chelseas, Arsenals of this world should see you make profit unless you're a particularly unlucky bastard. You need the confidence/balls to keep going when you lose though.

must've put about £50 on ?. £100 Rubbish for my my "gambling skills" credentials, but I just needed a win/profit to break my recent run. I would be embarrassed, but... I'm just not.

Won £37! My rubbish streak is over!! Had to go back to the very basics and lump on an Arsey/Barcy double!

I thought Spurs, Chelsea and WBA were safe choices, but that seems sound. Lumping on fewer events has to be the way to go for the long-term profit. it's what i done for a while and really built up my fund. then went on holiday and put on a seven-timer for the weekend which came up and it lulled me. got to be strict with myself and get beck to fewer match accumulators and plan on winning not gambling. Well put.

I thought Spurs, Chelsea and WBA were safe choices, but that seems sound. Lumping on fewer events has to be the way to go for the long-term profit.

I should sooo stop betting. I couldn't even get two out of three... not even two!

Keane's interview "great players in forward positions... like... Nicky Butt"

WBA, Spurs and Chelsea treble.

Be fucking fantastic if the whole of N-O's betting community lucked out and all won big on the same day for once!!

Timisoara look like grabbing that fourth 0-0 in five games.

How long will Ameobi and Jonas be out, anyone? Thanks in advance.

Two geordies, no less.

"Hell, this club hasn't been hungry in years!"

Anyone else seeing a Rocky 3 montage? #Rising up, back in the team, did his time, took his chances, scored a hattrick now he's back on the [score]sheet, just the man and his skill to survive...

Are people not reading the article on purpose?

I'm quite surprised no one has mentioned Newcastle as relegation candidates. Not on the wind up, but Alan Smith/Nicky Butt et al have really bludgeoned all my hopes of Newcastle being a force capable of beating anyone on any given day. Furthermore, players that mitigated their ineptitude in the side somewhat [beye, Bassong, Martins] have gone. I realise we're in a lower division, but with no way of knowing how good/bad we will be at facing Championship sides week-in week-out, my gut feeling tells me to feel saturnine. Hope I'm wrong, but I can see us scrapping at the wrong end of the table - this season, at least. [/hating being the pessimistic bastard of the board]

I'm really looking forward to the game. I know once coverage starts [and I remember we have a team full of passengers, not the idyllic coalescence of Keegan and Bobby's best teams in glorious black and white] I'll be praying for full time and us out of the media spotlight though.

I have to take issue with you at that! Carlos Puyol is a masterful cheater. You have your Didier Drogbas, your Tim Cahills, your Cronaldos... your common as muck street thiefs, and then you have Puyol... a diamond thief! In all seriousness, as cheating has become endemic in football, I previously consoled myself in not minding when two cheating teams encountered one another - live by the sword, die by the dive and all that. It's sad that now every team cheats. Even Newcastle. Anyway, my point is that Puyol isn't the worst. Cronaldos jumping elbow from behind was far more cowardly, petulant and sums up what a little bitch he is.

Well, I'd like to stress again that I was supporting Barca and I am glad they won - but I just thought neither side was at their best, which is to be expected in a final, I suppose. Hopefully they'll draw each other a little earlier on next year. Finals are always so tentative and overly-tactical. As J-pd mentioned, there were so many mistakes and players like Park were giving the ball away for fun. Very uncharacteristic - and while certain errors were forced, a good deal were unforced. Credit to Barcelona - probably the team of the tournament on the balance of things. Would have been interesting to see how the final would have progressed without that first goal. *shrugs* With no subtext or sarcasm, my question for you Apisith is, how do you feel Barca would have coped with Man Utd on full pelt? Or do you not think Barca would allow such a thing? Honestly, if Man Utd had hit their stride, I don't think Barca could withstand an archetypal Man Utd onslaught. I'm reminded of when Chelsea countered Barca to death at the Bridge a few years back. I recognise Barca are a different team now, and this is all just conjecture and speculation to be taken with a pinch of salt, but it'd have been nice to see. Hopefully not too much changes in the time between their next match up anyway...

I feel like I watched a different match to everyone else judging from what I've read on this thread. For the record I was supporting Barcelona tonight, but I don't think they performed half as well as they could have done. I thought Man Utd were a far superior side for the first ten minutes, and when they conceded against the run of play to a fairly ordinary counter-attack that the match as a contest ended. Barca played fairly aimless counter-attacking, and Man Utd just didn't recover whatsoever. Credit to Barcelona for making it so difficult for them, but superlatives are a bit much IMO. It wasn't the masterclass in attacking play that I'd hoped for. Thought it was a piss-poor spectactle personally. Ideally, Man Utd would have taken the league and Barcelona would have had another opportunity on the big stage to prove that they can unlock a top English defence that isn't pouring forward. That also might have induced some of those sweet, sweet Cronaldo tears the world's been thirsting after. Most of the questions posed before the match remained unanswered for me because Man Utd got Arsenal'd inside the opening 10 minutes. Poor end to an entertaining season [not a good season for Newcastle *sigh*... obviously]. Hopefully Chelsea can give Everton a sound kicking on the weekend.

Not a slow news day, either.