Neil

Championship midweek is usually a minefield.

I'm tempted to say it was Hans and Tahiti.

Right decision, too late.

This x1000. Such a better return.

And your reaction now?

I'm nervous and I've only got £20 on Stabaek DNB @ 10/3. Imagine what Kaiz is thinking currently.

Kaiz, you laying it if it's like this with 5-10 to go?

It's why I'm surprised so many people see Liverpool as their preferred champions. It will be utterly fucking unbearable for many, many reasons.

I'd genuinely recommend the Philippines. Get some crazy scores All in.

Farewell my £2. We'll meet again.

Strange due to a) it being very debatable and b) managers often soften their view on a controversial decision a bit if their team wins. Very eager to point out how little of a goal West Ham's was but is utterely adamant the 2nd Liverpool goal is legit. Not that any of this makes a blind bit of difference.

Agree, he's certainly improving. Was reading something the other day saying he's been dribbled past more times than any other full back this season?

Little stake on Stabaek DNB for shits and giggles. Let's go Kaiz.

Got the over 2.5 as opposed to BTTS (which was 2/5 ), would like to think there's one more goal. Same, I've probably given it the kiss of death. Still 1-1. Salihovic missed an unbelievably easy chance.

Valenciennes score so have covered under 2.5 in the Hoffenheim game to ensure profit. Probably go in play on Liverpool shortly.

Oof.

it is ridiculous how he keeps getting away with it, it happens in every match he plays. And then is laughed off as "good old Skrtel being robust."

Got the over 2.5 as opposed to BTTS (which was 2/5 ), would like to think there's one more goal.

Just thinking of what I could've done with this £2.

Crete already behind.

Hertha Berlin-Hoffenheim is a typical end-of-season clash..... however the players haven't been told that. They're absolutely kicking lumps out of each other. Think 3 Hertha players were injured in one passage of play earlier.

Correct decision IMO.

I was one of them, and in hindsight I was obviously wrong, but I still think at the time it was a huge gamble for Everton to appoint him. They played some nice football at times, but defensively they were all over the park to the point where he got them relegated (despite winning a cup obviously). Still, fortune favours the brave, and here we are, stuck with the biggest coward of all. I was a sceptic aswell and I wish people would stop acting like it was obviously going to work out brilliantly for Everton. Martinez was somebody who never once in about 5 years got his team to be anything other than relegation battlers. There was rightfully doubts about him Or, the other side of the coin, he managed to keep an otherwise terrible team in the PL for years, while not often resorting to the same negative football typical of relegation fodder. Spot on. I was one of them, and in hindsight I was obviously wrong, but I still think at the time it was a huge gamble for Everton to appoint him. They played some nice football at times, but defensively they were all over the park to the point where he got them relegated (despite winning a cup obviously). Still, fortune favours the brave, and here we are, stuck with the biggest coward of all. I was a sceptic aswell and I wish people would stop acting like it was obviously going to work out brilliantly for Everton. Martinez was somebody who never once in about 5 years got his team to be anything other than relegation battlers. There was rightfully doubts about him Or, the other side of the coin, he managed to keep an otherwise terrible team in the PL for years, while not often resorting to the same negative football typical of relegation fodder. Spot on. Jewell and Bruce had already kept them in the league before Martinez took over And then Martinez did so by playing far better football. And when they got relegated, they picked up that silver tin pot thing at Wembley. I don't think Wigan's football was ever terrible to be perfectly honest, whether under Jewell, Bruce or Martinez. Not saying they previously kicked lumps out of everyone then Martinez turned them into Barcelona, but it was a bloody bold decision to consciously progress their style of play quite markedly, with the pressures of staying up a constant weight on their shoulders. And for the most part it worked and for that he should be commended. It doesn't make him the messiah, nor does it make him a naughty boy, but it does show he has a clear vision in his mind about how he wants his team to progress.

Depends what you value. 12th and playing shit football, 16th and playing very good football. Either way he kept them up while progressing their play, developing as a manager and ultimately when it was too much to keep them up he won them the FA Cup, an extraordinary achievement you seem to be glossing over. I was pleased we got him but no, I didn't assume he'd work out well. But it was clear even in those 3 frustrating draws at the start of the season, he was trying to change something long-term. He has an idea about where he wants us to go and how he intends to do it, and that was evident at Wigan too.

Couldn't resist a couple of quid on some of the Greeks. Got an OFI Crete win/Panthrakikos double chance/Panionios double chance treble.