Neil

Yellow card within 2 minutes.

Rome derby, Coppa Italia final, kicking off now.

Slightly up from the CL final, why wasn't Lewandowski taking the penalty though? Anyway, for today, gone for a Celtic/Barca/Real Madrid treble @ 6/1. Fully realise Real Madrid in particular may get beat, but think it's very good value overall. Think the odds have been skewed a bit too much in Sociedad's favour. We'll see.

Got: Lewandoski anytime in 90 mins @ 3/1 Muller anytime and Bayern win in 90 @ 4/1 Bayern to lift the trophy @ evens (limited offer) And for the bet365 offer, pre-match bet is BTTS @ 4/6.

Lewandowski anytime still 3/1 with Boylesports, cracking value.

Literally and metaphorically.

Limited offer on now at Will Hill Bayern to lift the trophy @ evens. Max £20 though.

Dortmund, 100%. Hard to look past Bayern winning, though.

Muller anytime and Bayern in 90 mins @ 4/1 with Will Hills.

Lewandowski anytime 3/1 with Boylesports.

Nope, but a high quantity of offensive turnovers.

Rumours of Isco to Real Madrid picking up. Seems a bit pointless.

Going to withdraw some funds from another betting account just so I can partake in this offer. It's a great offer in fairness.

Betting any significant money on the ESC is surely completely fucking bonkers. Can see why you'd put a couple of quid on if you fancied making it interesting, but 300 euros. Christ.

A horse running at Arlington reminded me of just one thing: Never fails to make me laugh far too much.

How was life in LA for you?

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the past few days haven't been the greatest for Benfica fans. Talk about tough breaks. 2 injury time defeats in their 2 most important games in ages.

Good thing I knew my luck was completely out. First win in a while and I only won because there was no way I could lose, and even then, it was the bet that returned less profit which came through.

£40 on Chelsea to lift the trophy, to cover my Benfica bet. £5 on Lampard to score first for Chelsea

My luck recently has been zero. Laying my Benfica 10/1 shot for the Europa League. Can get 5/6 on Chelsea to lift the trophy - generous IMO.

Chelsea's run to the final has been bloody obscene. An easy tie each round (yes, no easy games blah blah blah but they've had one of the easiest ties they could have had relatively each round), and now when they're coming up against a genuinely quality side in Benfica, they're playing them at the best time possible after Benfica arguably lost the league at their closest rivals last weekend in the last minute.

He's obviously not very good but he's just bossed the FA Cup final against some of the best players in the league and outshining pretty much everyone else on the pitch? The McClean comparisons are also lazy. McManaman has shown the ability to beat his man, signalling an immediate upgrade on McClean. He'll of course get the English treatment of being overhyped and his ability exaggerated, but there's no doubt he's got plenty of talent.

As an aside, albeit it's probably already been discussed, I don't like the idea that winning the FA Cup has been a massive distraction in Wigan staying up, and is in some way to "blame" for them going down. Tonight could be an isolated example where sheer fitness levels were impacted, but the reason Wigan went down is because they've been too bad for too long.