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Think I just found a goos bet on skybet.

David Villa is 7/4 and Torres is 2/1 to be top Spanish goalscorer...... bet on them both and as long as one gets it your a winnarrrrrrr.

orly

Anyone but England for me. This season is bad enough with Dundee United looking like winning the Scottish Cup.

Outside chance for Netherlands and Portugal, both very good going forward but lacking at the back.

I quite like the chances of Serbia to have a bit of a run which may have swayed my judgement slightly on this one, but still reckon it is a value price.

Germany & Serbia to qualify from Group D (any order) with Sportingbet @ 2/1 (http://www.oddschecker.com/football/internationals/world-cup/world-cup-group-d/dual-forecast)

Messi top goalscorer ew top 5 with skybet@11-1 looks ok to me.

Been thinking italy looked a large price@14-1.

Still early days!

Holland and Argies for me.

Higuin @ 28/1 looks tasty, but you never know what that Maradona will do!

I'd agree 28/1 is tasty, but the best price i can see anywhere is 20/1, if you have managed to get 28s youve done well mate.

There's been £24 traded at 100 on BF!

Paddy's went 28's about 4 or 5 weeks ago. long gone now tho

We will never win it, going forward we're pretty tasty but defensively we're just not good enough.

Does Dirk start when everybody is fit? I know you have some good attacking players but can't really take Kuyt seriously as a Striker.

brazil are having a laugh with their squad, no way will they win. kleberson in ahead of ronaldinho lol

Sneidjer, Van Persie, Van Der Vaart, Nigel De Jong, Huntelaar, Kuyt, arjen robben. holland too sick going forward.

ridic that argies have left out cambiasso and zannetti, both abs incred. strikers aren't bad though..

Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid), Diego Milito (Inter Milan), Martin Palermo (Boca Juniors), Carlos Tevez (Manchester City), Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli)

No he won't. Huntelaar (God help us all) will probably start. VD Vaart, Robben, V Persie, and Schneijder will complete.

Seems unbelievable that RVN can't get in the squad. I don't follow dutch football like i did when i lived there but i can't imagine there are many players in Holland more likely to get a goal if needed than him.

Think I read that the coach doesn't trust RVN's injury problems.

Whereas Vennegoor is more reliable? The guy doesn't even score when he is fully fit. I think not taking RvN (who has worked his socks off to get fit) is a massive mistake Our centre forward position is as weak as our defence at the moment. Kuyt is not good enough, Huntelaar can't get a game at club level;, Babel is not a centre forward and VoH is just ridic bad. We needed Ruud :(

Abs PMSL at VoH making Dutch squad he's ridic bad.Nistelrooy been pretty shit this season I believe but still that's crazy.So many people seem to have been left out due to managers personal opinion than their ability,seems really bad managing to me,Maradona stands out as the worse but there are a few.

Yeah Maradona leaving out two of his best players is amazing IMO.

then again, the guy manages to make Lionel Messi look like a Sunday league player so I am lost as to why they still have him there,

Collocini making it and Milito not is posibilty the worst decision in picking a squad I've ever seen

WORLD CUP BETS

Gonna keep tabs on this post all bets if possible, see if we can make a profit.  Have stick a few early ones on in the last couple of days, just waiting for most to get matched.  glgl me!  have done a fair amount of research, but scary that I know a lot more about League 1/League 2 footy than decent world teams, really neglected the info out there on Internationals in the last 18 months. BTW, this I'll probs have lots of longer shots, so don't expect lots of winners!  :D

Back Luis Suarez @ 150's Top Goalscorer - £5
Back Luis Suarez @ 27's Top 4 Goalscorers - £10
Back Milan Jovanovic @ 34's Top 4 Goalscorers - £10  = -£10
Back Liedson @ 38's Top 4 Goalscorers - £10
Back Carlos Tevez @ 13's Top 4 Goalscorers - £20
Back Jesus Navas @ 170's Top 4 Goalscorers - £8
Back Guillermo Franco @ 280's Top 4 Goalscorers - £5 = -£5
Back Giampaulo Pazzini @ 80's Top 4 Goalscorers - £10 = -£10
Back Christiano Ronaldo @ 7.6's Top 4 Goalscorers - £10
Back Mesut Ozil @ 70's Top 4 Goalscorers - £5
LAY Germany to qualify from their group @ 1.26 - £100 (stake) = -£26
LAY France to qualify from their group @ 1.40 - £50 (stake)   (backed £5.60 at 12.5) = +£42.18
Back Christiano Ronaldo to score 1 or more goals @ 1.49 - £60 = +£29.40
Back Serbia to win group D @ 4.5 - £20 = -£20
Back Uruguay to win group A @ 4.7 - £20 (backed Mexico £23.50 at 4) = +£47.97
Back Uruguay to qualify from  group A @ 2.12 - £25 (laid £50 at 1.06) = +£23.75
LAY Gonzalo Higuain to score 1 or more goals @ 1.17 - £60 (stake) = -£10.20
LAY Robin Van Persie to score 3 or more goals @ 1.83 - £50 (stake) (backed £50 at 2.98(after he'd scored 1)) = +£20/£17.50
LAY David Villa to score 3 or more goals @ 1.54 - £50 (stake) (backed £50 at 1.6 (after he'd scored 2)) = +£3/£0
LAY David Villa to score 4 or more goals @ 2.02 - £80 (stake)
LAY David Villa to score 4 or more goals @ 1.79 - £60 (stake)
LAY Samuel Eto'o to score 1 or more goals @ 1.15 - £100 (stake) = -£15

I had a dabble on Peter Crouch at 8 to be Englands top scorer, I know he wont start every game but I'm pretty sure he will be involved in all the matches and they will wanna rest Rooney when the group games are in the bag.

Also if anyone wants to give me odds, I reckon Crouchy is going to do some daft celebration the first time he scores since he bagged that advert with Pringles.

Did you see him on 50 Greatest WC shocks?  Awful.

I've just been having a look on betfair and i seem to have been dabbling change whenever i've won a bet.
I've got:

£10 Messi top scorer, Argentina Winners @ 40's
£2.68 Villa top scorer, Brazil winners @ 75's
£5 Jozy Altidore top scorer @ 760's
£10 England to go out on pens @ 4's
£20 Van Persie to outscore Tevez @10/11

Yep, he makes that one cracker of a joke about being a virgin if he wasnt a footy player and now everyone is trying to make him the 'funny' football player.

Thankfully they chose Richard Bacon to copresent, as he is just as wooden.

I know he keeps missing penalties and stuff, but seeing as i believe* he had more shots on goal than ANYONE in the last world cup, i've had an ew bet on lampard@66/1 to be top goalscorer, top 5 getting paid.

Normally you'd only need 3/4 goals to place here and i could certainly see frank netting a couple against the algerian and slovenian minnows.

Obv being a poker player i believe in volume and +ev shots, thus if lamps keeps peppering the goal as he did last time in this comp, he shld strike gold eventually.

* Prepared to be proved wrong on this, i just am pretty sure i heard this a few times after the 06 competition from several media sources.

The problem is Frank's shots at the last World Cup were mostly from 30 yards and were lucky to not fly out of the stadium.

Yeah good point and i'm certainly not putting the farm on this, just think it's a fair price for some1 who's just had another good season again and could easily have a game or 2 with easy goals in.

lool

This is a groovy World Cup calendar.  Well, I like it...

http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html

Yea pretty decent

?? wtf

Pretty accurate summation.  In fact, they're still looking for some of the balls.

France are shit. I know its only a friendly but they just lost to China.

Mexico/Uruguay Dual Forecast for Group A. 8/1 with Ladbrokes.

GET ON GET PAID.

Ha. My bet moved the price (brag), 6/1 now.

7/1 in places.

Those of you who can bet with Bet365, 1. Mexico 2. Uruguay straight forecast is 16/1. Value.

Definitely a good shout. France are very shit. Can't believe Domenech has now equalled longest stint as France's manager.

Yeah like it, got variations of hating FRA, liking URU on prev page.

Price on France to win there group ?

 ;pokergods; ;pokergods; ;pokergods; ;pokergods; @ Robben maybe being fit for after the group stage.

my colleague reckons heskey has a shout at top scorer overall, i've layed him evens on him to score a single goal in the tournament.

3/1 on 1st England 2nd USA 3rd Slovenia 4th Algeria

No shock results please, although Slov v Alge is pretty up in the air.

So far I have

£30 on Argy's to win it @ 7/1

£20 on Holland to win it @ 11/1

£10 on Ivory Coast to win it @ 50/1

£10 on Paraguay to win it @ 100/1....... 1 time please!!

£20 on Messi Top Scorer @ 10/1

£10 on Fabiano Top Scorer @ 12/1 


I'm also looking to place some 'winning nation/top scorer' doubles on too, thinking about Milito/Argy, Villa/Spain and possible a few others.

Decent bets imo, cept maybe the Argies i like the look of all the others.

I have £8.50 on Paraguay too on Betfair at like 110s. I think they are value, fancy them to win their group and they beat Brazil 2-0 in Qualies so you never know!

Bookies offers that stand out for me

Stan James - Refund any outright bets as a free bet if Spain win. up to £250.

Bet365 - Refund any outright bet if your team goes out in a penalty shoot out.

I like the Stan James offer and will be having a lump on Brazil with this offer in mind

bet365 offer must have smallprint. backing england using that is pretty much a freeroll

Just been checlking out some of the group betting,

Holland are 4/7 best priced to win GroupE, but you can back them in the straight forecast market to beat both Cameroon and Denmark @ 3/1 (VC and Lads)

So presuming the Japs dont do something miraculous, you can get Evs for Holland to win the group.... Value at least :)

Only thing about this bet is that South Africa are in this group. No host has ever failed to get past the first round

No host has ever been this shit!

In fairness US probs were.

I know! I fancy Mexico/Uruguay aswell but just stating the facts.

My bets so far are as follows:
North Korea lowest scoring team @ 9/2 - £20
Argentina to win @ 10/1 & Holland @ 14/1 £20 each, (both these odds were put on a few montrhs back)
Brazil v Argentina Final @ 15/1 - £5
Serbia to reach the semis @ 16/1 - £10
Germany to win with Diego Milito top goalscorer @ 396/1 - £5

Dual forecasting bets to come

I think that arguement is a fading one. The same was true of the Euros too up until 2000 when the Belgian's did something interesting for once and failed to get out their group. In 08' neither the Swiss or the Austrian's got out of their respective groups.

The same goes for the 'only Brazil have won the World Cup out of their own continent' arguement. Players play all over the world these days.

Very good arguement but i do beleive that South Africa are a better team than they are getting credit for

True and home advantage definitely gives them a chance but I think they'll need momentum, if they lose, heavily or otherwise, against Mexico then the pressure will build on them. Could be a great last game between them and France if they both need a win to qualify.

Include in Multi
2.00 - France
Uruguay vs France


good price?

paddy power doing a bet on 1st player to bless themselves, there are 3 nigeria players on offer and they are all muslim, cheating barstewards

can anyone find the odds on england not to conceed in group stage?

group winnaaaarsss

mexico, argies, england, spain, paraguay, holland, serbia

180-1

rooney top scorer, spain to win tourno 50-1, obviously hoping torres and villas goals get divided up

7/2, not that gr8

oh my

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5QbQYJnRYA

you doing your betting blog this year Horner?  did pretty well last time iirc...

So good.

6-0 with 6 different scorers. Could take somebody to park the bus and play for penalties to knock these out.

That's a pretty sick goal right there,WC is guna be so incred,so close now

Added Robinho top scorer to my bets £10ew at 33/1 (5places)

So far on:

Spain to win World Cup. Opened new accounts with Totesport and Extrabet and had bets on. They give you a free bet/match your bet. So am actually getting like 8/1 on Spain :)

Spain, Brazil and Holland to win their groups - 2/1 Treble

USA, Serbia, Paraguay and Chile -  all to qualify from their groups 7/1ish.

Small bits on Javier Hernandez-190s and Robinho-48s Top scorer

Holland/Villa Winner/topscorer 150/1 (free £5 bet placed by BH, Beat him 5-3 at Pro Evo for it)

Mexico/Uruguay Dual Forecast 6/1 (£20 free bet with 888sport.com, if it loses you get your £ back)


Also on Mexico DNB at 10/11 in the 1st game.

was gonna stick a few quid on Suazo of Chile at 125/1, think he is out for the 1st 2 games though.

Huntelaar ew top scorer 80/1 @ bluesq

Also just got on Uruguay Draw no bet vs France at 7/4, just think its too big and Uruguay are decent and France lost to China, drew with Tunisia and struggled vs Costa Rica in the 3 friendlies leading upto the WC.

My bets so far are mainly top scorer bets - Van Persie 16/1, Forlan 66/1, Gillardino 45/1, Di Natalae 50/1, Klose 28/1, all each way with 1/4 odds 5 places. Biggest stake is on Van Persie.

Spain England final at 14/1 and Brazil England Final at 28/1.

Matches betting, treble on Mexico to beat South Africa, England to beat USA, and Argies to beat Nigeria.

Holland/Villa Winner/topscorer 150/1
Uruguay Draw no bet vs France at 7/4

Just got on the 2 bets above that ChipRich has had.

I've missed the value in the top goalscorer bets so just sticking with Altidore and Robinho now.

Also just got on Uruguay Draw no bet vs France at 7/4, just think its too big and Uruguay are decent and France lost to China, drew with Tunisia and struggled vs Costa Rica in the 3 friendlies leading upto the WC.
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This is a great value IMO, have got on although 13/8 now.

Bets So Far:

10pts Spain to Win the World Cup @ 4/1 (with Bet365, money returned if they go out on Pens)

0.5pt Ryan Nelson Top NZ Scorer @ 40/1

1.5pts Liedson Top Portugal Scorer @ 7/2

1.5pts Van Persie Top Goalscorer @ 33/1 (Back in April)

1.25pts Luis Fabiano Top Goalscorer @ 14/1 (Also got him in the Sweepstake)

0.5pts Lampard Top Goalscorer @ 100/1

1pt Austrailia/Serbia Group D Dual Fcast @ 16/1

5pts Holland/Denmark Group E Dual Fcast @ 7/4

1.25pts Paraguay/Slovakia Group F Dual Fcast @ 13.0

1.5pts Mexico/Uruguay Group A Dual Fcast @ 8/1

1.5pts Serbia Stage of Elimination Quarter Finals @ 6/1

1pt Serbia Stage of Elimination Semi Finals @ 18/1

still 7/4 at Boyles

First match bets of the tourney are on:

Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, and USA! - for £307

I immediately regretted putting USA on, so then done

Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina - for £110

should be some sweat on USA if the first treble pulls!

Talk about sneaky ones!!!  :D

Yeh this is incred. Looked through the top team scorers the other day and nearly took Ryan @22's.

2pts South Africa to beat Mexico at 15-8

2pts Uruguay to beat France at 11-4

Both SkyBet

1pt The double at 9.8-1

That'll do me Day 1

S Africa at home, emotional game. Reckon they will win

Hoping France are disappointing. Happy to go against Domenech in anything, at any time

http://betting.betfair.com/world-cup-betting/writers-picks/world-cup-betting-our-writers-tips-1-100610.html?utm_source=betting.betfair+world+cup

So far I'm on

Brazil to win at 5.9
Luis Fabiano top goal scorer at 13.5

and against the forum, I'm with France in their first game at 2.24

Andrew French seems the shrewdest, Spain to win, Fabiano top g/s and Serbia to be dark horses.

Like Dwayne I'm going to keep track of all my World cup bets in this thread.  Its been a tough few months so i am giving myself a £50 bank to play with and all bets will be on Betfair:

£2 Holland to win World Cup @ 11
£1 Robinho top scorer @ 38
£3 Van persie top scorer @ 13.5
£1 Robinho top 4 scorers @ 9
£2 Van persie top 4 scorers @ 4
£5 Mexico to qualify from Group A @ 1.99
£1 Tournament goals 135 and under @ 14
£2 Group H S/F Spain 1st Switzerland 2nd @ 3.85
£3.09 stake - LAY Messi top Argentina scorer @ 2.62 (£5 liability)
£3 Chile to score over 4.5 group goals @ 2.46
£2.25 total stake Group winners (7 & 8 folds) - Mexico, Argentina, England, Serbia, Holland, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain

I have added:

£10 on Brazil to win it + Fabiano top scorer @ 22/1

£5 on Spain to win it + Villa top scorer @ 16/1
(only £5 on this as I have Spain already in the £10 sweep on here)

£5 on Germany to win it + Klose top scorer @ 100/1

Gone with
Spain to win & Villa top scorer

Holland outright

Brazil/Ivory Coast, Serbia/Germany, Argentina/South Korea - Straight Forecast treble and doubles (regretting the South Korea shout now)

Mexico/Uruguay straight forecast and dual forecasts

France not to qualify

So pretty much need France not to qualify to make any sizeable profit.

and a big payday group winners bet
Mexico, Argentina, England, Serbia, Holland, Italy, Brazil, Spain

Nice work! Sweet on him also but at half these odds

I've got a decent sweat on the England starting XI. I've got 10/3 that Heskey and Rooney will play up front and for a decent amount for me. Odds on starting are quite similar between Crouch and Heskey so could go either way.

Are we gonna use this as the main world cup thread? Chuff me I'm so excited, it starts tomorrow.

Me too, can't wait! 

Watching a programme on ITV4 about stats around the World Cup.  Talking about the teams that pass the most, those that score from corners most, etc.

Interesting fact.  Italy have never scored from a direct free-kick in the World Cup finals. 

thanks

Over the past 5 World Cups, England have the worst record in penalty shoot-outs.  Germany, the best.

Who'd have thought?

:dontask:

Are there any markets available for keeper that concedes most goals ?

Less than  24 hrs to go sickkkkk,World Cups could just be the greatest.

Me and BH have three last longers to go with a couple bets I have with Rich


Spain v Brazil $30
USA v Cameroon $20
Serbia v Portugal $20

Really don't fancy Portugal at all. Reckon they could be early casualties with the French.

Also if Portugal don't win the group they'll likely face Spain in the second round (serbia vs Portgual could be a push obv). I like Brent's side of the bet for both Serbia and USA. Cameroon seem to be unsettled leading up to the start what with Eto threatening to walk out and all. As for Spain and Brazil may as well go to a PLO table and have a $30 flip and get it over with now.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjMcK77BFU

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFWGALVF0Y

Its Friday, its the World Cup, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Great bet listed in the RP yesterday. Back England to get knocked out in the second round (@ 3-1).

the opponents are likely to be Germany or Serbia, and they surely wouldn't start bigger than 3-1 to progress to the next round so you can then just lay them off....happy days.

Todays bets:

S Africa v Mexico - probably 2 of the more open teams in the tournament, although will be interesting to see how SA approach the game.  Been impressed with Mexico in the build up and can see them scoring at least 2 goals in this match
£4 S Africa v Mexico over 2.5 goals @ 2.6

Uruguay v France - not really sure which way this will go, 2 very average sides in my opinion so just having a punt for fun on a 50/50 bet with decent odds
£3 Uruguay first corner v France @ 2.2

As this is the OFFICIAL WORLD CUP thread too (I've decided)

Post trivia, titibits etc too

Such as

http://www.twitvid.com/BYWDG

Crappy old stadium by the looks of it

I agree with Matt50 - think the first game is going to be very open with two teams who can both score goals and ship some at the back. Add in the unpredicatble beachball they're using and I think there'll be goals.

S Africa v Mexico

£50 over 2.5 goals at 2.72
£10 over 4.5 goals at 13.5

I've also laid France for £50 at 2.28.

One bet for me today.

France @ 2.3

Good luck everyone.

First advert break on ITV during the World Cup featured, in order, an advert for a barbecue, 101 barbecue songs, Heinz ketchup (set at a barbecue), Asda (featuring a barbecue) and the Pimms advert showing the ingredients ariving at a barbecue.

WTF?

weeeeeeeeee World Cup, couldnt sleep at all last night, too excited! lol

Any sport on this weekend?

1-1 ht, 2-1 mexico ft 30-1

mexico to be winning at ht, SA to win ft 33-1

Got bit more on the Brazil, Holland and Spain to win groups

Bit more on Mexico DNB.

And me and BH got on Greece and Ghana to finish bottom in their groups last night, 10/1 double.


gl us and gl all!

I have gone for a win big / lose big strategy for the WC - based heavilly on spain

Spain to win @ 5.1
Brazil v Spain final - 10.0
Top goal scorer - D Villa @ 8.8 / Torres @ 16.0
Group with most goals - H (spain) 4.9
Winner / top goals -  Spain/ Villa @ 16.5 + Spain Torres @ 24

Italy not to qualify - 1.17
Paraquay to win WC - Bet to lay @ 120

I also have a decent outright bet on Brazil to win refunded as a free bet if Spain win. 

Tonights bet

Mexico / France double @ 5.79

Gone for overs in the first game too

Have S Africa in the first game at 3.2 for 20 notes.

Love the world cup.

Result - as there is a company dinner down in Gloucester tomorrow, most of the company have gone today so our boss has decided we can all leave at 3.00 - will now get to see most of the match.
Obv got out of the dinner tomorrow as well with England playing  :D

Come on Meh - He - Co

Winning start please

Those horn things are already tilting the shit out of me, they better not have them in the non South Africa matches

Just got a load on Mexico to win 2-0 3-0 4-0


4-0 is 40/1

Think they are going to be present at every game, though maybe not as loud. When the confederations cup was held in South Africa last year there was a lot of moaning about it.

It sounds like they are playing on the M1

In other news, Pokerstars are letting you change your avatar to your home nations flag as long as they are in the world cup.

Im starting to give up.

We should be about 7-0 up.

So sick how Mexco havent scored yet. Very tiltworthy

Mexico are rubbish in front of goal. South Africa are just rubbish.

Yeah FML if the best month every 4 years has to be spoilt by the noise of some retarded traffic jam

Thank god South Africans dont like snooker

ffs, Mexico killing them

Dos Santos has looked incred, they just need to be more clinical.

SA clueless defending from set pieces too.

Gaaaah - SA defenders who don't appear to have heard of marking and Mexico have one of the flappiest keepers I've ever seen. How is this 0-0.

Get in.

GET IN THERE!!!!!

wicked goal!!

They let about 5 Mexicans hold a little meeting at the far post for that goal.

Those vuvuwhateverthefucktheyare's are going to do my nut in. I wanna watch and hear football, not the noise down the local beekeeper's back garden thanks.

You obv didnt watch the African Nations then.

Eurosport decided it was best for people to hear the crowd more and it was an awful lot louder than on ITV just now.

the TV feed actually has the background noise turned down

I tend to watch with the 5 live commentary alongside the pictures. Firstly its a bit less obtrusive and secondly ITV tilts me severely, the combination of Andy Townsend and Drury or Tyldeley really is horrifc. oh, and Beglin

Wp Mexico... done my nut on the first bloody game!

All on France to get out! Should be a good game either way...... Why is Henry sub? Is he too old now, surely hes still amazing?

Although it cost me a few quid I thought it was a good game to kick off the World Cup, Mexico really should have won but if you don't take your chances you don't win games. I did manage to switch off to the noise of the horns and really didn't find them annoying at all.   

It didn't have any impact on today's result but Mexico's goalkeeper looks incredibly shit to be playing at this level and at only 5'8" he looks like being a real liability for them, I find it hard to believe that in a nation of over 100 million people that they don't have a goalkeeper better than him.

meh, Mexico should've prob won, but nvm. Was on DNB, so not too bad.

Agree with Maxriddles about the noise, kinda blocked it out and didnt really annoy me at all after 1st 5 mins.

Also yeah Mexicos keeper looked dodge as hell, should play Ochoa! Hes incred on Football Manager, he'd get the job done fine.


Uruguay DNB later at 7/4. Hopefully Forlan and co can get it done. France have decent players but just don't seem to get it right when playing together. Maybe they'l get it done when it counts, but i hope not.

their noise sounds like a big bee or wasp or something

Me against Rich tonight.

Hes on Uruguay DNB, im on France to win 1-0.

Have added
£1 13 corners or more Uruguay v France @ 4.7

So far tomorrow have
£3 S Korea to beat Greece DNB @ 2.04

and

£5 Argentina v Nigeria Under 3.5 goals @ 1.43

Did I hear right that the host nation has never lost an opening game in the World Cup?

Yes, Gary's just said so on the BBC.

oh no

Some people in a flat close to us have got a vuvuzela, gg.

Couldn't resist backing France after they drifted to 2.4. I mean Domenech is a headcase and a terrible manager, but France still have a considerably better side than Uruguay.

Ribery FGS at 9.6

On the basis of the first 20 mins, I have no faith in this ref getting a crucial decision correct.

i fancy france will win world cup and spain will get knocked out in first k/o.

Trust the French to have a bore fest game

I fancy Elvis to play main stage at Glastonbury with MJ as backing singer.

Uruguay cannot be as bad again in the second half
£1 Uruguay to beat France @ 5

£1? Srs?

Jumped on the U R Gay DNB bandwagon for an interest. Its not working, still not interesting.

What was the name of the french wonderkid about 4 years ago who was going to be the best player in the world?

Was it this Gourcuff fella?

Lol, yeah, as i said earlier in the thread i am pretty skint so only have £50 for the tourney and used £25 of it on pre tournament bets.
Running so bad at everything at the moment people would be well advised to oppose all my bets

ah ok fair enough, assumed it was a misclick.

Because he's tez.

On these performances Mexico are clearly the best Team in Group A.

Such poor finishing, could do with about half an hour injury time at this rate

ffs, what a shit free kick.

yeah just said that to BH.

They were just warm up games... I'm excited!

Its only bloody England's first World cup game tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on south korea tomorro get me out one time

yeah, but he once did this

40 seconds in...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVzzvMEG08

We see that sort of goal at Loftus Road every other week...

FYP

This is a more open game, 1-0 SK but there should be more goals to come.

LOL.

Yes, Gourcuff shined in the French league and I was sure that someone in the Premiership would snap him up.  I still think he's better than he showed yesterday against Uruguay.  I also think France as a team are far better than what they showed yesterday.  What odds are they to reach the semis?  Wouldn't surprise me if they miraculously started playing well from now on.  But saying that, wouldn't be surprised if they don't :D.

Greece are desperate, and desperately slow.

Never scored a goal in the World Cup finals apparently.

GG Nigeria!

This looks ominous.

Argentina's defence is shite. How is Gutierrez playing at right back and Zanetti not even in the squad?!

I've got £50 on England 3-0 and £20 on Gerrard first scorer (seeing as he's not stuck on the wing).

Let's gogogogogogogogo.

Lampard 1st goal

England to win -1.5

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Not wiiiiiii for the ITV HD channel which, somehow, cut to an advert break just before the goal. By the time I switched over to normal ITV the players were celebrating.

There's now no HD feed - wp ITV.

What channel is ITV HD?

178 on Sky.

Though they broke it - it's been the normal feed for the rest of the game.

cant beleive itv HD isnt on the epg in scotland

sick

very simple to add the channel if you want to just google it

Currently doing my bollocks on the World Cup courtesy of Mexico and England being unable to win games they should breeze through but early days and still plenty of chances to finish the World Cup in profit.

Landed the Heskey and Rooney start so pretty happy so far. Only had Uruguay DNB and South Korea DNB other than that.
Fancy Algeria tomorrow. Belhadj is suspended i think so i'll probably go DNB again as i don't think Algeria are big scorers.

Starting bank - £50

P/L - -£3.99

Current bank - £46.01

In running - -£27.25


Today's bets:

£3 Algeria v Slovenia Over 2.5 goals @ 2.74

£4 Serbia v Ghana Under 2.5 goals @ 1.61
£2 Serbia v Ghana to draw @ 3.3

£4 LAY Germany v Australia @ 1.63

got a load of little bets on serbia game.

method of first goal: header 3/1
over 4.5 goals: 10/1
vidic fgs: 25/1
krasic fgs: 14/1

Come on Serbia!

Why do the commentators keep going on about teams not wanting to lose their opening match?  Surely they don't want to lose any matches, and I'm sure they don't play any more defensively in the first game compared to others.

...and they love to talk about the ball.  All the time.

The ball is wierd A kid had 1 last nite ,

I know i havent played for a few years but the ball feels so spongy,didnt feel like a real football.

I should just back unders for every game.

Everyone should at the moment. Crazy start to the WC.

I honestly don't understand why players arnt just shooting from midfield constantly testing the goalies.

On a side note the Nigera and Ghana have both impressed in their matches; makes me think that the Ivory Coast might fare well too.

Because every time they try they hit it 20 feet over the bar.

Im all over Germany tonight ive gone for germany 3-0 @ 8/1 ...Germany H T/FT @ 5/4...Germany to win to nil @ 11/10...Germany -1 @ 11/8....Germany to score 1st in the 1st half @ evs and Polodski to score 1st @ 5/1

A lay of Germany for me @ 1.61 - think I might just lay every big team in the group stages (except Brazil) as there'll probably be enough draws and 'shock' defeats to make it profitable. Brazil never seem to struggle though - they always seem to breeze through their group.

Im liking these bets might have some myself

nice start dan

WTF is that Australia strip all about, it looks like a wetsuit! The German strip on the other hand is pure class.

Ozil is incred. Remember him destorying us in the U21's but is even better now.
Germans out to impress!

Yeah, cheers mate. 2 nil now so the H T/FT looks a cert and the -1 is looking good just want the germans to score 1 more and not conceed now.



weeeeee hope you got on mate

PLSSSSSSSSSSSSS no more goals TY

Nice bets Dan

I got on for some of them but not Podolski

England better qualify in 1st place cos last nights performance was no where near good enough to beat the Germans.

Starting bank - £50

P/L - -£9.19

Current bank - £40.81

In running bets - -£27.25

Today's bets:

£10 Holland to beat Denmark @ 1.54
£3 Holland -1.5 goals v Denmark @ 2.7

£2 Japan v Cameroon Over 2.5 goals @ 2.6

£3 Paraguay DNB v Italy @ 2.84

WOW,Did everyone of these come in ? Sick life

All except the first one I think, very nice!

I'm giving my new strategy a bit more time, despite the disasterous showing last night.

£50 each on laying Holland, Cameroon and Italy.

Im on draw/Holland @ 10/3... RVP 1st GS @ 3/1... and Holland 2-0 @ 5/1

Then in the 2nd game japan/draw and cameroon draw both at 14/1.... 1-1 @ 11/2 and Eto 1st GS @ 4/1

And in the last game Paraguay draw no bet 7/4...Paraguay 2-1 @ 16/1 and Santa Cruz 1st GS @ 9/1

May have a few more later

Posted this on the propaments thread by accident, when im not actually doing the propement challenge:

Today I'm on:

Holland -1 @ Evens
Halland to win to Nil @ 6/5

Cameroon @ 11/10

Paraguay DNB @ 6/4

I'll probably bet some more on the Italy game tonight once I have a proper look at it.


1-0 Holland after the funniest own goal!

after messing up the HD coverage of the england game ITV have just lost the live stream WP ITV...bunch of useless ********......

With nine minutes to go, Denmark were 210 on BF even though they're only 1-0 down. Had a cheeky £2 as that just seems too big - teams must come back and win in this situation way more than 1 time in 200.

[  ] gg £2

Thanks you Mr Kuyt

Note to self - stop opposing Dan's bets.

Nice one Dan.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

had a good start to the WC hope it continues :)

yassssss 2-0, to land both bets!

LOL, thanks mate, although im with you on the next game I dont think Cameroon will win either

I should be free rolling the rest of the day now after the Holland win, so next game im on:

Draw Halftime / Cameroon Fulltime @ 4/1

and

Over 2.5 Goals @ 67/40


I know only 1 of the 9 games so far has landed the overs, but surley getting nearly 7/4 is far too big!

Also done Japan, Draw no bet @ 6/4 and a red card to be shown @ 3/1

very shrewd on the Red card, 4 Reds in first 3 days!!, with RvP having to be subbed before he made it 5 today.

Lol @ Adebayor's, phone going off. He deffo considering answering it then realised where he was and was blatently was messing around with it off camera.

on cameroon to be up at HT @ 9-4 and a bit on them to win outright @ 5-4 as well. placed the bets approx 10 mins in running after seeing just how crap japan were.

sigh

Inspired.

Fuck my life!!

Le Guen knows what he is doing playing one of the best strikers in the world on the right!

Can't just blame that, japan wanted it more.

Remaining profit from Holland goes onto Paraguay now!

£15 on Paraguay Draw No Bet @ 6/4
£2.50 on Paraguay/Italy @ 33/1
£2.50 on Italy/Paraguay @ 40/1

gah, no di natale he's warming the bench.

Why do the beeb make such twatty decisions re pundits? Adebayor must be one of the most hated footballers about.

In the past they had some good ones, Martin O'Neill and Gordon Strachan were always good value. You just compare them to ITV who can't even manage to show all the goals live in a world cup and you realise they aren't that bad after all.

Here is the Adebayor incident for those that missed it.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgFFYnf2Hck

woooof!

1-0 Paraguay!

If they hold out till Halftime, I'm laughing as I have DNB and also Para H.T / italyF.T, so I can only break even with a Draw.

and what you get when paraguay hold on for the win?

Para = +£37.50
draw = +£15
Italy = +£85

Is macarthy  the worst commentator ever?

I am such a nit - I've greened out for £39.

he said the vuvuzela's should not be banned cos they create a wonderful and amazing atmosphere!!

So to answer your question - Yes!

He's from Barnsley - he's used to a boring, droning sound continually in the background.

Sitting on the lowest senario now, I need a goal, any goal!

Para for £40 + a 100/1 shot a cert to qualify from group!

Italy for £85

I think if I must choose, I'd choose for an Italy goal, as i would have to tie up too much money to lay off para in the QF's.

Ha ha ha typical, finished a Draw!

Stake returned, but £0 profit.

did you not lose a fiver on the ht/ft bets or are they dnb

They were straight wins, so yes lost the £5, I forgot about these, but they paid for my sweat so I'm not fussed.

Ivory Coast tomorrow guys are huge, 5/2 the win, 11/8 DNB!

This is possibly the bet of the group stages!! I might even go as far as to place a few notes on Ivory Coast -1 @ 31/5!

Portugal really struggling coming into this tourney, Ronaldo won't shine tomorrow, and he is the center piece of the squad.

Please be the game of the tournament so far. Not averaging 2 goals a game yet.

12:30 Game

£5 New Zealand DNB @ 9/2
£5 Chris Killen FGS @ 12/1



3:00 Game

£10 Ivory Coast to win @ 13/5
£20 Ivory Coast DNB @ 6/4


7:30 Game - This game brutal, no prices anywhere

£10 Draw HT / Brazil FT @ 11/4

scrap that 7:30 game bet

Me and BH on Ivory Coast DNB, lets gogogo

Wiiiiii - the Kiwis keep my super system on the move with the last-minute equaliser.

Another £50 lay of Portugal (though sadly I did it last night at 2.4 and they shortened before kickoff meaning they're still 2.4 now and it's nearly half-time).

Come on Ivory Coast, miles the better team. lets do this.

The games are quite poor and i'm still enjoying the world cup. I'd be ecstatic if there was a classic game though. New Zealand was a great ending i was so happy.

I think I've finally found a bet in the brazil game, im thinking Brazil will finally open this tourney up tonight

£25 on Over 3 goals @ 1/1, on the Additional Goal Line.

1 or 2 goals = -£25
3 goals = £0 (stake returned)
4+ goals = +£50

Im on Brazil -2 @ 11/10 and fabiano 1st Gs @ 11/4 in tonights game also on 4-0 @13/2 not the best of prices but wont mind too much if they win

gunna lay brazil -2.

where's brazil -2 11/10?  It's 4/6 on BF

Me and BH on Brazil -2.

I also got a little bit on Asain Handicap -2, so winner if they win by 3, money back if win by 2, and loooooooooser if win by 1.

Also got on Luis Fabiano top scorer earlier today at 10.0 on Betfair, with the intention of laying off after the game tonight. Plan is for him to score at least 1, hopefully more, then layyy off for the freeroooooll. If he gets 3 prob just let it ride, and if he doesnt score at all, gr8fkin game.
Already into 8.6 though. :)

Its 2.24 on BF...

OOps. my bad, was looking at the AH -2, not the Korea +2.5

np, get on! gl us

Am!  Come on the Brazil, one time please, could use a winner!

GL Us :)

Think you've got a winner there :)up

Robinho get a shed load please

-2.5 Brazil £15

0 - 0 13.5 - £5

is it fekk!

I can't believe how bad this world cup is!

if they make the ball any lighter they will be playing with these bad boys in 2014

(http://www.glasgowscoutshop.com/acatalog/soccerspecial.jpg)

Goallllllllllllllllllllllllll, the Icon!

2 more plzzzzzzzzz

lol

lol so true.

Adidas Flyaway ftw

Hola, one more please, please Footy Gods, one more

This plzzzzzzzzzzzz

Come on Brazil

Cheers footy god... you dicks!

yes get in betfair bankroll saved...lol

GET IN DPR KOREA!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO

Jesus Christ, I just can't get a winner, was on Brazil to win to nil too.

GG World Cup, can't take any more losing bets

Bang!!!!

1 more and it's all ok again

FYP

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I wonder if they'll be watching North Korea win 1-0 in the live coverage they are probably watching just now in Pyongyang.

North Korea done well tonight and may encourage me to back them on DNB basis in their next 2 games if the price is right.

Na, Brazil are just most overrated team in the world imo. I said on here before that they won't go far and I stand by it, I don't expect them to qualify with 9 points and I dont think they'll win it, probably the worst Brazil team I can remember.

I will take Brazil vs anyone you like except Spain for a last longer if you want ?

cool ill pm you tomorrow. also have we got a last longer with portugal/ivory coast? im sure i posted in one of your threads but never checked back for a response?

Wasn't it for a pint ? I just thought you were kidding ?

You playing Aspers this week ?

Spain -1 at evens tmoro is huge imo, get on get paid.

I've got so many on I don't remember them all lol,if I said it was booked then happy for it to ride obv,let me know if we did confirm.

Got great odds in Ladbrokes yesterday IMO

80/1 on Ozil (Germany) to win the Golden Ball (best player of the tourney) with a Man of the Match under his belt already and my predictions that the Germans will go far these are great odds. Had to ask the woman to fone up for the odds as they arent inthe shop or online, defos worth £20

Spain -1 is 9/20 on Bet365!

Where the hell did you see Evens

If you mean Spain -1.5? Then yes it's 21/20


Today I'm on the Double:

Chile @ 4/6
Spain -2 @ 2/1

£15 on @ 4/1, for £75 return.

Not had a win since Saturday night, even tho I picked one yesterday and changed my mind!

If I lose this I'm down to £30 left.

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/internationals/world-cup/spain-v-switzerland/handicaps

this refs a disgrace in Chile game, every decision wrong so far i think.

Yeah, i got 4/5 on Spain -1 5 mins brfore the Chile game on Lads. doubled it with Chile at 2/1 -1

I take it your getting mixed up with the handicap and the Asian handicap markets

Spain -1 on the Asian handicap is 9/20, whereas Spain -1.5 (usually known as -1 to most UK punters) on the standard handicap is Evens

This is cos if the game finishes 1-0 Spain you get your stake back from the Asian handicap as the fixture would be a tie and it's a 2-way market, but you would lose your stake in the standard handicap as the .5 eliminates the draw and the money back aspect.

I'm on Spain -2 today @ 2/1 in the asain, if it's 2-0 Spain I'm refunded.
Spain -2 in the standard handicap is just over 5/2, cos it will really be -2.5, meaning 2-0 Spain is a loss.

I'm on the bet that Rich linked to

glgl.

Not on that, but on Spain to win to Nil at Evens with sky bet last night.

lets gogogo Spain, 3-0 Spain is good for us all then!

gl us

standard handicap = 1-0 Spain you lose, 2-0 Spain you win wiiiiiiii

gl Geordie bhoy!

This!

2-0 will be ok tho as it's a refunded stake from a double, so I still get the single on Chile.

3-0, 3-0, 3-0, let's go go go!

Chile impressive, and positive. Lively outside to go deep I think

Yeah i knew that when I put the bet on Dave:) glgl us

After seeing the Spanish team I stuck £5 on 4-0 Spain @ 14/1

Their team is freightening !

I'm also on the -2 AH

After losing my shirt the last few days put the house on Spain -1  ;pokergods; ;pokergods;

lol

oh no

HOLD!!!!!!

No chance 3-1 Torres is gonna save the day  ;joestrummer;

Decided to have a small bet on Spain to win when they were at 3.7.  Couple more quid aint gonna hurt!

The world cup can just die now done balls in every day now

Sigh GG Spain

in 1966 spain played the swiss in the 1st game and failed to qualify, omen?

Siiiiiigh at getting the lot on spain tho

This World Cup is as clear as mud  :'(

why all the surprise over spain? has no-one ever watched a world cup before? they're always going to win it until it starts and then it turns out they're actually shit
surely it'd be a much bigger surprise if they won a game

Probably because people had thought that with winning the Euros they'd got rid of the millstone of perennial underachievers.

I do think it was a surprise they lost,  I was on the draw personally.

It's easy to forget that this group of players has been on the go through two domestic seasons, a summer confederations cup and european finals. I thought in some areas (notably Torres who looked short of sharpness) you could see this showing a bit

Spain v Chile looks like a corking game now, doesn't it?



In general, now the second set of games starts, some teams are going to have to start playing to win. Things are about to pick up I think

This is easily the best Spain team I can remember man for man, they are also reigning European Champions and have won 33 of their last 34 games. I think that is probably more reason to think a team are going to be good than what a previous generation of players did.

I had the draw in todays game as well, sigh! Mainly based around the Swiss are very well organised.

On < 2.5 goals S.Africa  v Uruguay.

After a dodgy start to the WC done ok last few days (took a Scottish Dave tip and went >2.5 gls in the Brazil game... ).

Is that Mark Wilson the Stoke Circus reg? who reads the Telegraph whilst playing without even looking at his cards?

If so I quite like him

GTFO Blatch

Massively unrelated, but I once signed Pedro the Spanish International on Soccer Manager when he was like a 72 rating. Massive coup.

Uruguay saved what would've been a blank day,wpwp Forlan

Aftertimer alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my luck has changed, i was on £30 today after starting with £120

Stuck £5 on Forlan (who else, suarez is shite as is the rest of the team), and £15 on Uruguay to win @ 6/4

Ive now stuck a few quid on KL Choi, Cabrera, Cink and Woods in the US Open, leaving £50 in the WC Bank Roll

Not really looked at tomorrows Market, got a free £5 bet on bet365; so stuck it on:

Argie's
Nigeria
Mexico

treble returns 9/1

I'll no doubt post better bets/markets tomorrow

Same here. My housemates and I all landed the gamble on Uruguay. Bet of the World Cup i reckon. All the punters who move the markets were on.....

What was Forlan at?? And pick me out a bloody winner cause the World cup is about to ruin me

ooops guys never bet on the first games in the groups teams are too busy trying not to lose to play proper

2nd round of group games and form will come into it espically when teams like england now realise they have to score goals to
make sure they go through there group as winners and avoived seeded teams in the last 16

nh sir. I'm fairly sure back in the day on that game I signed Thomas Muller when he was a 74ish and eden hazard when he was similar. I spent far too much time on that game when i played it.

9/2, I managed to squeeze 5/1 out of Bet365 in Running tho, best player on the park by a country mile! Head and shoulders above the rest!

Today Argies should beat Korea but it is one of the 2nd round of group games that doesn't NEED a winner. Argentina can draw and beat Greece to top the group and a draw for Korea would mean only a point is needed against Nigeria in their last game no matter what the others do today. With Argentina being around 1/2 I can happily leave it.
Greece were one of the weaker teams from watching the 1st round of games and Nigeria showed enough against Argentina to suggest they should win. I might get involved if i'm back from work in time as it's must win for Greece so should be open at times.
I refuse to back the French if they leave Malouda out again and will probably leave it no matter what the team is as i don't know what to expect from the French. Tonight should be a good game but i think France might edge it as Mexico's keeper looks dodgy.

Argentina can't possibly create so many chances and miss them again today, not to mention S Korea look like hey have goals in them, therefore:

Argy v S Korea - Over 2.5 goals @ 13/10
Messi to score Anytime @ Evens

I'll probably be on Nigeria and Mexico tonight also, updates to follow.

You got 28's on Higuain didn't you dave? mbn and all that.

Got on Nigeria but i've laid it off. Not going to make much at all if they win and still think they can with 10 men just not really a risk i feel i need to take.

Got the timing right

Stuck on all 3 games today to have +1.5 goals. 3/1 for 3 games each day. Prob be taking this every day in the 2nd and 3rd rounds of games, there will be very few games with few goals in it for the rest of the group games.....may rule of Portugal's games hahaha

I know this isn't to do with betting but ZOMG how dark did Garth Crooks just look? He was so black it was ridic, I've never seen him that dark.

lololol

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05FwKuyJq-0


He's a Leicester fan lol

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HmDVz1ED84


Even better

I too signed Hazard one of the games. Inspired. Nice touch with Muller.

Get out France.

weeeeeeeeeeeeee, huge result for my Uruguay/Mexico dual forecast that i posted up near start of thread :) (altho il still get a rub, because BH got a better price, sigh)

The Mexico vs Uruguay game is 1.67 to be a DRAW on Betfair, lolol.

plz no late goals

Got 21/10 on Stan James before it was pulled  :)

On the draw?

vnh.

weeeee.

Although tbf, no1 is going to want to play Argentina in next round. And France or South Africa have to beat the other by at least 2 or 3 goals probably, and i cant see that happening.

Yeah, went in as soon as Mehico scored, I am now declaring myself shrewd  :D

Scottish Dave on the otherhand missed it, he is unshrewd.

oh, i think we all knew that already  :D

I was too busy counting my winnings on Mexico mate lol

pity your knowledge base of these teams is too low for you to pick out the best bet of the group stage.

Your idea of shrewd must be like blatch's idea of trading on the S Korea game last week. ;-)

Small treble done for tomorrow pays roughly 8/1


Germany V Serbia over 2.5 goals
U.S.A to beat Slovenia
England -1 V Algeria

1.13 to lay on the machine now if you wana lock up your profits guys.

1/33 with Paddy Power though so i'd hold off personally and let it riiiide.

what odds can i get on france to make round 2 and also on them to win?

i think mexico will beat uraguay 1-0 and france will beat SA 3-1

so as the uraguay france game was a draw then it will goto GD and france will pip them

but if i bet it will be pennies

http://odds.bestbetting.com/football/world-cup-2010/main-tournament/group-stage/group-a/group-a/group-qualify/?showMostPopular=true


http://odds.bestbetting.com/football/world-cup-2010/winner/

Also, France are 5 goals behind Uruguay, so Uruguay would still qualify if that happened.

Uruguay would be on +2 goals, and France would still only be Even...

thanks rich

pretty shocked they arent bigger priced to quailfy

not sure if i would be better off backing to win the cup then trading off when/if they make it through

how much would they need to come in to to make it worth my while

currently best price is is 11 to quailfy and 200 to win would that mean it would need to drop to about 18s ?

your right fml been in the pub since 1pm thought it was a 3 goal swing needed

makes the 11s being offered on france look very skinny

think i better goto bed before i unreg from the apat even on betfair and put the whole buy in on england to win as thats just burning money too :-)

yep, not good at all.

France are proper tez tho, but glgl if you get on France to win it all.

They should probs be about a milllion tho tbf.

Domenech is a total clown, putting Gignac on for Anelka at HalfTime has to be one of worse decisions ever. Henry must be devd.

yeah i know they were bad but they cant be that bad again can they?

in the  pub i just glanced at the tables and thought that as long as the 2 american teams dont play for a draw france would of been able to bink 2 goal win v SA but not sure i fancy them to bink a 3 or 4 goal win so they need mexico to win by a couple of goals

also not sure if it goes straight to GD or does the result between the teams count

by that i mean if urguay win 4-0 and france win 6-0 although france have a better GD mexico beat them in the meeting so would go through

i know thats how it used to be worked out and they use in ECL not sure if its being done this WC

France have been this bad for years.

Aftertiming i know but i put a Mexico Uruaguay 1,2 at 14's in with various other bets, so i need a Mexico win on the last day.

One treble i did was  Mexico Uruguay, England USA, Spain Chile........If Spain end up been the one to cost me i will be tooo sick.

Germany -1.5 @ 37/20!

Judging by the first games of these 2 teams, it should be about 11/8!

Sigh, seriously does every foul warrant a booking these days.

Despite that seeing the Germans lose is always com.

so, so good. best ref ever imo

Nice reasoning Scottish Darve.

Taken the over of 54 points on the bookings index on Betfair for the Germany v Serbia game (10 points for yellow, 25 for red).

Accidentally placed double my usual bet as well (misclick FTW).

Come on referee!!!

Grease Podolski

anyone else reckon Garth Crooks is likely to get darker today than he was yday if that's even poss?

ZOMG Miracles do happen.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMk_anLslo

Complete comedy for a lunchtime.

Now then, how do we finish second in our group to get to play Ghana?!

I am just hoping that someone has exposed him Robbie Earle style so he isn't on my tv ever again.

? Ghana won't be qualifying. I hope not as i laid them to qualify @ 1.5 during the Germany Serbia game.

They won't be beating Austrailia tomorrow and Germany and Serbia will be winning their final group games.

Even if they do find their way past a much improved Aussie side it will go down to GD imo.

fair enough. what I am saying is I don't want Germany in the last 16..assuming we qualify

Haha be careful for what you wish for

Fair enough, although it would be a great spectacle.

Need USA here, lumped on @ 2.2

come on Jozy Altidore!

USA USA USA!!

[ ] Good start to the day!

Next I'm on 2-2 draw @ 18/1

If england lose tonight are they out?

I'm wrong but we wouldn't be out for sure.

no

lets say

slovenia 6
algeria 3
usa 1
england 1


then eng beat slov and say usa beat alg and eng can still go through

ideally we want this game to be a draw and then we need to thump algeria tongiht

slov win is fine if we win tonight

if so we beat slove we top the group, we draw we finish second, we can still lose and finish second

Ah my bad forgot Algeria got beat- for some strange reason had it in my head 0-0!

Slovenia will be no pushovers for you lot- 2nd might be what you'll get tighty

the 2nd round of games have been far better than the 1st- quite enjoying this

12 mins to go, 1 goal needed for USA and I'm back in deep profit for the tourney!!

Come on!!!

omg, die ref. No1 did anyything wrong.

Should be 3-2 USA. ffs.

This World Cup just got a hell of a lot better in the last few days.

Good decision ref, laid USA pre kick off was counting my winnings at half time.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha yassssssssss!

Amazing decision by the ref for Edu's Goal

ha ha yassss

profit tastes good!

Nice bink Dave wpwp

England v Algeria

England are defo not 2/9, they are basically unbackable tonight, so I've gone for:

Algeria DNB @ 12/1!! WTF!
And
Draw 1-1 @ 9/1

0-0, so money back from both bets on Bet365



today its holland v japan

Over 2.5 Goals @ 11/10

and

Sneijder to score Anytime and Holland to win 2-0 @ 14/1, for added interest

1-0 Holland, Sneijder scored first!!

22 mins to play and need one more Holland goal please, i cant really say 'ONE TIME' after last night's 2-2 draw and the general run im on this world cup!

Was on Ghana win @ 11/8, and Ghana -1 @ 4/1, thought i was cruising after the sending off, was not to be.


next im on:

Cameroon to win @ 15/8
Eto'o First goal scorer @ 5/1
Cameroon HT / Denmark FT @ 33/1, just incase cameroon have a meltdown after HT

YESSSS DENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIS!!!

great goal!

that was a right game!

Ghana were fuckin awful im not backing another african team ever again.

Dennissssssssssssssssssssssss, weeeeeeeeeee.

Ivory coast to do Brazil tomorrow ;)

i've backed sante cruz for first goalscorer, come on roque.

Half way there!!

Give me one more goal

Had my biggest bet of the WC so far.

Under 2.5 goals Italy v NZ @ 1.92.

gogogogogo

Lovely start to the day thanks to Paraguay, and nice to know I have my biggest gamble of WC with Paraguay to win it for £1,000+

Next game: Italy v N Z

Can't possibly bet Italy, so:

    Italy v New Zealand
First Goalscorer
Chris Killen  @ 20/1
Stake: 2.00 Single
Potential Winnings: 40.00

    Italy v New Zealand
To Score at any time
Chris Killen  @ 7/1
Stake: 4.00 Single
Potential Winnings: 28.00

Nz beating Italy 1-0!!

i followed you, still a chance i suppose.

Nah, once NZ scored we were doomed.

Sorry.

never say never.

i once backed under 7.5 runs in a baseball game. there were 7 in the top of the 1st inns. the bet ended up a winner.

Taken my medicine and got out.

I just can't see NZ holding on for another 25 minutes.

wtf is going on? such a weird wc

grow a pair....

Such a sick result.

It should have been 0-0. The NZ goal was offside and it was never a penalty.

I read the game right and still did my money.

i had to let mine ride for banter purposes as someone else had gone the other way

Why have Brzil drifted so far?

I thought they were pretty solid at 8/13 or 4/6

They toughed 5/6 on betfar before moving back to 4/5.

Still looks a fair price to me.

Thoughts?

Elano FGS @ 16s for me

I have to say, I am having a very nice world cup!!!

One more goal and Ive doubled my initial world cup bank!!

Good work Dave!

Set up a thread when next season starts and we can all follow you and make some mad dimessss!!

1/ bang!
2/ BANG!!

Bring on the golf, mon the Tiger!!

Nice work Dave.

Oh and the Kaka red was a joke.

Shot Dave

Keita should get banned after TV evidence kicks in!

I fekkin loved that game, about time these games go better.

disgraceful reffing, there's no way he saw anything that looked like a booking

one of the worst things about footy that a 2x yellow sending off can't be overturned

Depends where the ref saw it from.

Kaka definitely raised his arm and the ref may have seen that.

But he did it to stop being run into.

Keita should be banned for simulation. Disgraceful cheat.

the ref didnt see it at all, they showed replay and he didnt even look over at the player on the ground until he'd been down about 10 seconds.

Was just a reaction 2 Ivory Coasts reaction to it, which is silly really as they probably need Brazil to beat Portugal, very very stupid.

how shite have african teams been at this world cup?

wat a terrible ref, kaka was in my dream team

How can the ref give Kaka a second yellow? If he thinks he elbowed Keita in the face it has to be a straight red.

On watching the slow mo I think it's possible Keita did actually get a knock in the face, but only because he ran into the side of Kaka's head. Even so, there's no way he should be rolling about on the ground the way he did.

Just LOL at how the fourth offical on the touchline is not allowed to look at a TV replay and then have a word with the ref, which would clear this up in an instant.

Had small bet(£10) on Chile today @ 13/10

Tonight in he Spain game I've gone for 2 gambles

£10 on Draw HT / Spain FT @ 3/1
£5 on Navas FGS @ 8/1

I might bet in running if the game suits

Score a hatful please Villa

this

I think I got 15 mins of a swear there lol

£5 on Torres next goal @ 4/1

Have Torres and Kaka left their talent back in Europe?

Torres was out for 2 months, he dosent look fit at all.

before one particular bookie figured out that uruguay v mexico result being a draw meant they would both go through and they failed to update their prices accordingly. mexico/draw will be a very very good result, any other draw would be excellent.

You have to laugh at the current odds on offer in the Mexico game today

Mexico = 3/1
Draw = 5/6
Uruguay = 3/1

Draw 0-0 = 2/1
Draw 1-1 = 3/1
Draw 2-2 = 10/1

Anyone think France are fucked? Lol

still tempted to go against the draw.

Seems wierd not having a game at 12:30 today, I'm quite missing it.

mexioc/draw - 50/1
uruguay/draw - 28/1
draw/draw - 18/1

there is a massive case for either team to go for the win due to next round opponents but still some tiday value (if it doesn't get voided). My more shrewd mates have been laying the draw.

No massive case for Uruguay. They win the group with a win or a draw. It's to Mexico's advantage to win but it can't be win at all cost as they will risk their place in the next round. I expect it to be a proper game of football for about 60mins. If after that point it's still a draw the final 30 will be played out with very few chances.

Bit disappointed there are no games on. The 4.30am was the only one I could catch here. Nonetheless, have lumped it on Uruguay, 3-1, high bookings. Bet France at 6/5 on other, 3-0, low bookings. Gl me.

what's your thought process on high yellow card sin mexico/uruguay? i was thinking it would be a passive 0-0 kind of game, more than everyone going all out to win.

If it's a draw Mexico get Holland next round!

So I'm on Mexico DNB

FYP

lol for some reason I knew it was Argy's as I checked it out when I got Mexico in the £25 sweep, but for some reason Holland cane out when I started typing!

That's why I took DNB cos Argies are The most talent filled team in the WC, apart from Spain possibly. So mexico are out if they don't come top of this group

Bye Bye froggies!!

I hope somehow SA bink their way through.......

I dont, got the Dual Forecast Mexico/Uru, if SA get through might have to end it all.

omg, gna lose. plz dnt do this

Someone needs to win the other game though right?

Lay the draw @ 1.7 and lock some up?

What happens if SA and Mexico end level on points and goal difference?

Goals scored

Yeah goals scored,sigh that I know this because of England being terrible

This has just got v interesting. South africa still need a 2 goal swing.

LOL France.

Karma is a beautiful bitch.

Is it greedy to want Mexico and Uruguay to qualify but also Mphela to go clear as top South Africa goalscorer?

omg, wht a miss, fffffffs Rodriguez

weeeeeeeee, Florent!

nahh, gamble ftw.  :)

lol, I like the way you say it an hour later when your hole has stopped twitching!

Yeah very brave of him. He only left it that long so he could say, yeah thats what I did, if it all went wrong obv.

lol i sure did. Not big enough to lay obv.

But yeah Dwaynes right, couldnt say it any earlier in case of BOK.

Tonight i think Argies are big on the Handicap Market

Argies -1 @ 11/8
S Korea to win @ 7/5

£20 on the Double only @ 4.7/1, for £114 return



also, since Maradonna is involved tonight and he is Bonker's!!, ive put a Bonker's bet on too:


£2 Scorecast, Messi and 3-0 @ 18/1 = £38
£2 Scorecast, Ki and 2-0 @ 55/1 = £112

£2 on the double scorecast @ 1,063/1 = £2,128!!!!!

GL with these Dave, you will be pleased to hear that betting guru ChipRich Hare is on the above two bets also.

Lol at the French team, they apparently got a bus from the game straight to the airport and will fly economy back to France straight away

yup, got on these last night.

Argies -1 @ 2.7
South Korea @ 2.52.


Bh on South Korea too, but at 3.6. He got on them for this during the 1st game vs Greece, shrewd fk.

sweet price

I've got change on Messi 4-0 at 73/1

The Argentina price is too good to be true.

Lack of motivation (theirs, not mine) is stopping me unloading at 1/2.

Aguero and Milito trying to get into the team is good enough motivation for me.

That plus Greece are average at best.

Also on Messi to score Tina to win at 9/5

oh no, terrible start for South Korea.

Greece having a few chances here, so with Samaras up front basically himself, ive stuck a wee £5 on Samaras to score first @ 18/1

Fuck me big Sammy! How did he not scoop me £90 there!!!

goalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, South Korea

Means fuck all if Argies don't shift there arse!

ffs, what total bell, South Korea defender.

I aint watchin that game, what happened?

Ah goal flash , gave away a pen i take it.

Tried letting ball go out for GK, then realised it wouldnt go, turned back inside. Nigerian guy nipped it off him and he wiped his legs away, ffs.

bored out my tits here so been throwing a few bets around!

waiting on a Pen for £150, own goal for £200 for the first goal


scratch that, argy just scored with a shot!

norrrrrrrrrr, brilliant from the Lion. Inside of post though :(

MARTIN PALERMOOOOOOOOOO

[ ] Delighted Messi didn't put it away and Palermo got his dream goal

AFTERTIMER ALLLLLEEEEEERRRRRRTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Palermoooooooo to save half my night, id have been down to £20 from £200 last night( fucked up so much on the Tennis and Baseball!!), if Palermo hadn't scored!

a wee sneaky bet on him to score next @ 12/1, got me back up to £85!

i backed half the bloody Argy team tho, so i couldn't really lose! Veron was my biggest earner too for £210!

Was mainly gambling because the odds were 9:4, but checked out previous matches, and it suggested they weren't shy of a few bookings. Also thought if one team went 1-0 up, the other would get desperate and try too hard. The 3-1 is just a gamble. Most my money went on the straight win. Couldn't resist the odds. Having watched them play a few times, I just thought Uruguay were a better team. Got low bookings on the France game, just...

Alphabetical order. Confirmed.

Made a betting boo boo for todays games, only had a few quid so rather than put it on one acca, decided to go for 4 trebles on the games. Silly really as I need 2 of them to come in to make a profit and if 2 come in, they will all come in.  Should have stuck with the normal acca!   Ah well, live and learn.

I lol'ed very much!

On England @ 1.49

Germany @ 1.56

And my biggest bet of the World Cup so far goes on Serbia @ 1.97 to beat Australia

Money back on a fair few markets with Boylesports if England fail to win

 Half time/full time : draw/england    7/2

4/9 for a struggling England side is just wrong! If i had to chose I'd Lay England, but I'll just leave it.

I'm playing footy tonight and have the missus gran's Funeral tomorrow, so I've just stuck a wee 3 day coupon on, as I'll be in the pub for the last part of the bet on Friday night! Spain FTW!!!!!!!

Germany @ 1/2
Denmark @ 5/4
Paraguay @ 1/2
Brazil @ 13/10
Spain @ 1/2

£15 on returns £261!

I have left my betting head locked away today and have instead bet with my heart with cheeky tenners on the highly unshrewd 4-0 @ 27 and 5-0 @ 55

England 4/9 for a game they MUST win...

Have this bunch shown they are adept at coping with pressure? LOOOOOOOOL.

I've set my alarm clock and it's time to lay lay lay. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I'm such a pussy I backed the draw like 30 seconds after kickoff,basically breakeven on the draw,small profit on the win.

Mug punting ftw.The thought of relying on England freaked me out once it got going  :D

come on Germany tonight and this is a lock for profit.

Maybe the shitest bet in betting history but at least the two iffyish parts are in the bag!  'mon Germany and Serbia!   Did have a cheeky few on the quadruple too.  Surely this is me getting a winning bet in this World Cup

One time!

No wonder you were chucked out of the Netherlands and now live in Scotland.

by no means certain will England get Germany going by this game

Sigh Ozil and Krasic both missing great chances.

omg, serbia or germany, please score!

ding, great goal Germany

An absolute belterama

shame about Serbia

lol, only cheering them on for the money mate :)

2 goal swing and the Aussies go through!

Feck the colonies!..Go on Germany and Ghana!

Greened out Germany

God knows how Serbia lost that game.

Small loss on the day,would have been a small win had I stuck on England ftw without backing the draw.

damn right, if they'd have won, i'd have actually made some money this world cup :(

Come on Serbia, 2 more please!

Would a Serbia draw send them through?

Dont think so, they'd lose out on goal diff to Ghana

Lack of respect from Germany. Expected them to let Ghana draw so they could take 2nd and avoid us. Easier route to the final apparently.

Serbia only needed the 2-2 to go through. Idiot commentators claiming they needed two goals. And Pantelic was onside for 2nd goal. And it was a pen. Farce.

Get out Italy?

yeah get 'em out. 2-zip, poor side this year

GTFO ITALY

That slip looks like an England antirail in disguise to me :P

Howard Webb, great refereeing, give him the final.

Well done sir

So, New Zealand, you'll go to the World Cup, go unbeaten, finish above Italy and be knocked out. Weird times.

I'm doing it.... i'm trusting my 'run good' phase of life and chucked a lot of my Isner winnings on Denmark... Please make this an epic Thursday!!!

COMMEEEE ONNN DENNIS ROMMEDAHL!!!!!!!!

GG Denmark.... Japan? Seriously??

Japan look pretty handy, they played awesome tonight

Doing my conkers in so far and got some long term bets that are going badly too.

ok first bet of WC for me

brazil, ivory coast, spain and honduras trebles and accumalor

actually think 7.0 for chile to beat spain is value if it wasnt for the fact spain need to win to GTD progress

Had a small bet on Denmark, plus a Treble with Denmarl, Brazil and Spain!

Thnks Dane's!!!



Ill be busy today but will be on the pub tonight for the Spain Game (hopefully make it down for the Brazil Game too!)

so £32 on Brazil / Spian double @ 2.56/1, for £114

yeah, very impressive performance. that honda guy must've covered every blade of grass last night. they'll be a handful for anyone

Agreed, strong outfit. Honda and Endo were terrific. The midfielder Hasebe is great too, plays for Werder Bremen I believe.


Strange how the two sides of the draw look so uneven, but probably a great thing long term to see the old order broken up, teams like Japan developing

Seems like strange maths.

why? cos i said £114, instead of £113.92

Should be 3.56.  Although 3.6 is currently available.  ;)

or because you put £32 instead of £32.0224?

reread my post, i said 2.56/1, which is the odds on Bet365 when you double these 2 teams, do i need to explain this to you's i thought you's were all gamblers?

incase you didn't know 2.56/1 is the same as the decimal price 3.56

32 x 2.56 = 81.92

lol. that is relevant how?

trying out my new calculator

let me fully explain the maths here tighty

2.56/1

32 (stake) x 2.56 = 81.92
81.92 + 32 (stake returned cos you won) = £113.92

let me say this again mate, re read my original post PROPERLY and you'll see its 2.56/1.......as in £10 on 6/1 chile to beat spain, doesnt return £60, it returns £60 + £10 stake = £70

I getcha, just ppl associate decimal, 2.56 etc with betfair, so when you write 2.56/1 its sometimes mis-read.

lets hope this can be a lesson for all on how they should read post properly ;-)

im glad i could clear this up for the forum.

thanks Dave.