BILLY BUNTER

Weblog: The football punter

Coping with the lows of football betting

WELL that wasn't too brilliant.

One out of four for a Saturday was a pretty disappointing return, but it could have been worse.

So do I grab consolation that Bristol Rovers turned things around and beat Morecambe while the other three went down or do I just bemoan the fact that the other three didn't come in.
I'm getting to hate watching Soccer Saturday. It's soul destroying.

On days like yesterday, you just watch the ticker while Paul Merson goes on about "Arthur Chance" – probably the most over-employed striker in the Premier League – or Dean Windass is missing a goal at Glanford Park and you just know what's going to happen.

Getting done by late goals is bad enough, but it's the hope that does you in the end, so much so that a goal for one of your teams is not met by euphoria but ratheracknowledgement that your emotions now have further to fall.

I'd stop watching if I could, but you can't go anywhere without knowing what the scores are.

That Likely Lads episode when they were avoiding the result so they could watch the highlights of an England game – hope I don't spoil it by saying it was called off – you couldn't do that now.

And then there's when they tell you to leave the room if you don't want to know the scores during the news.

You'd have to be Usian Bolt to make it to the living room door before they exclaimed that Wayne Rooney scored another five goals in an 11-0 win over, I don't know, Bolton or someone.

So I've just got to get the tin hat on and get stuck in again.
QPR have been going well and I'd fancy them to get to grips with Villa and perhaps I'll double it up with Cardiff to see off Sven-Goran Eriksson's expensively-assembled squad of mediocrity, or Leicester as they are more commonly known.

That'll cheer me up. Goodness knows something has to.

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