Back on track
Sorry about the lack of posts for the last few days. After England got knocked out - the weekend disappeared into an alcoholic blur. Plus there have been no new matches to bet on and, as I explained, my current mission is to keep on using Unazukin’s powers to gamble on the world cup until either it ends or she gets it wrong. Currently she has won 4 on the spin (or 5 if you include her correctly guessing the winner of England v Portugal that I couldn’t bring myself to bet on and 6 if you include the match where she hinted at a draw and I misinterpreted her choice).
Thanks for the emails that you’ve sent telling me that I should be betting with an accumulator as i’d be winning some serious money. That’s a bit out of my league at the moment and although I am becoming more and more confident over Una’s ability to predict results - i’d rather not lose the lot if she does screw up. Plus since the competitors in recent matches wouldn’t have even been decided when I started the betting, i’m not sure how i’d even do that.
Today there was no choice of matches. It’s was a semi-final and was simply a choice between Germany and Italy. I have changed my betting strategy and am bet entirely on the outright winner. As you can see from the betting slip below (filled in with absolutely no assistance from the fellah in the betting shop I am proud to report) she went for Italy.
I was disappointed by this as she seems to call it right every time and i’ve never had anytime for Italy’s negative style of football. Or their play acting - it occurs to me that pretending to be dead and surrendering are probably much the side of the same coin.
The match was a cracker - the nail biting finish kept me on the edge of my seat and i’m still getting my breath back as I type this. I thought Una had finally blown it but the 2 goals in the last two minutes got us back on track. I’ll drop in and claim my £7.28 winnings tomorrow when I place my bet on tomorrows semi.
Unazukin correctly gets 6 right on the trot and we are up £53.78 - if she carries on like this I might just get back the cash I spent on that pointless day trip I made to Glasgow.