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Saturday 4 November 2023 - Waterworld

Photo by Hannah Domsic on Unsplash

Three winning weeks out of four in October.  But more of that in a moment.


I know we’ve had a lot of rain, but I swear I saw Kevin Costner sailing a catamaran along Mapperley Top on Monday afternoon.  If it wasn’t Kev it was someone with the right idea.  Forget electric cars, boating is the way to go.  It’s almost as if some psycho allowed the water industry to be sold off and run for profit at the expense of maintaining our drains and sewers.  Imagine how bad the roads would be now if we had let that happen.  It doesn’t bear thinking about.

Another thing that doesn’t bear thinking about: it’s less than eight weeks to Christmas.  It only seems like last week we were putting the clocks back.  This year I am asking Santa for world peace and a PlayStation 5.  There is more chance of me waking up to world peace on Christmas morning than there is a PS5.


Last weekend’s recommended double was another winner, with the combined victories of Leicester and Mansfield making it three profitable weeks out of four in October.  Both selections won 2-1 (technically Leicester won 1-2 being the away side) and my “hypothetical” stake of £20 returned £40.91 for a profit of £20.91.  In October I invested £80 with the bank of Sky Bet and got back £126.78 for a profit of £46.78 on the month.  Not quite the £100 hoped for, but by no means a disaster and perhaps having a target to aim at helped.  To quote the late American businessman and philanthropist W. Clement Stone, “Aim for the moon.  If you miss, you may hit a star.”  In reality you wouldn’t hit either; the Moon alone is 238,855 miles from the Earth but you get the point.  The blog is now £59.11 in profit since the start of the football season which means my next three £20 doubles are on Sky Bet.      

This week’s double effectively rests on Wolverhampton Wanderers (19/20), who are away to Sheffield United in the Premier League at three pm on Saturday.  Sheffield have played ten games and have one point out of a possible thirty to show for it.  It’s not going very well for them whichever way you cut it.  Wolves have not lost in the Premier League since 16 September (Liverpool 1-3) including a 2-1 home victory over possibly the best side in the world right now, Manchester City.  Their last five results read Draw, Win, Draw, Win, Draw and if past performance is any indicator they are due a win on Saturday if only to keep the pattern going.  On Sunday at four thirty pm Liverpool (1/4) are also away and also playing another team at the wrong end of the Premier League table, Luton Town, who have only amassed four more points than Sheffield United.  At odds of 1/4 Liverpool would normally not be worth backing, but they take the double over even money which is where I always want to be.  My “hypothetical” £20 win double currently returns £48.75 with Sky Bet at combined odds of 1.44/1 for a profit of £28.75 after deduction of stake.  You never know.

I hope to see you next week.

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