I, Punter

All work and no play makes Chris a dull bugger blogger, so straight down to business this week I’m afraid. Rejoice!  Last weekend’s “hypothetical £20 win double” came in, with Stockport beating Exeter 1-0 and Rochdale thumping Boreham Wood 3-0 (so much for my prediction of a 1-0 win).  If I can keep the magic going I’ll be back in profit for the start of November and bashing the bookies with their own money again. The first leg of this weekend’s “hypothetical” win double picks itself: Rochdale (3/4).  The Dale are flying at the moment and in 2025 have yet to let this blog down.  On Saturday they visit Woking, who are currently eighteenth in the National League.  The Cardinals will be cheered by their last game, a 1-3 away win at Altrincham, but that was at the expense of a team who are actually bottom of the league based on recent form.  Leg two of the double is another team hitting the road, MK Dons (13/8), who travel to Bromley in League Two, an opposit...

Happy Halloween! Almost. Before I begin, please accept my sincere apology for the unexpected break in your weekly betting entertainment, but the life of a sports analyst (sounds better than degenerate gambler) is sometimes not their own. Last week I spent a couple of days in Birmingham on a work trip.  Birmingham is a big city with big buildings and more canals than Venice.  The conference I was attending was located on the sixteenth floor of a hotel offering panoramic views of England’s second city, but we live in strange times and at street level Birmingham had a shabby feel to it that I wasn’t expecting.  A round in the hotel bar cost £145, which tells you everything about the state of the country at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century.  A conference highlight was looking out of the window at a nearby hotel and seeing a naked man climb into bed.  There are usually a couple of perks to be had on a work’s jolly, but full-frontal male nudity was no...