Football World Cup 2014

[old.user4556]

I didn't watch extra time or pens, but that's my sweepstake bust.

Such a pish game.

 

[old.user4556]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1Tted-R0g

 

[Jimmy]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...fked-by-germany-in-the-world-cup-9594287.html Brilliant

 

[Chilly]

No more betting for me. That Brazil game was a fucking disaster. In the end, I didn't bet on it - I said I would but I was waiting for my partner to get back to me but he didnt in time before the game so I scrapped it - lucky (and not sensible, we probably should have bet, regardless of the outcome).

Anyway, full stats for the tourney:
Total bet: £27,139 (this is missing the group stage bets, which were about another £1500 I think, we didnt put them in the log due to spaz related reasons)
Total profit: £5,676 (this does include the group stage and final winner bets (where we backed Brazil to win the tourney)
RoI: 20.9%
Total risked: about £65,000 As in, if every bet went wrong (remember, laying can be very costly) we could, in theory, have lost this amount.
Not too bad. Our mate Phil ended up about 70% up, but he punts on football all the time and really knows his shit. He was doing all sorts of fancy jibber jabber we didn't understand.

If anyone was following these bets, my apologies for the couple of errors - the final Brazil error, while strictly speaking correct, was costly.

 

[Chilly]

Here's the dump from Betfair.

 

[Draylor]

You almost seem disappointed at a 20% ROI ... cant win 'em all

 

[old.Osy]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBF9MUsNUkQ

 

[Job]

65 grand in bets.
Wouldn't you be better covering 4/5ths of a Roulette table
All the panic in one go.

 

[Corran]

shortlist for the 2014 Golden Ball

Argentina - Angel Di Maria, Javier Mascherano and Lionel Messi,
Germany - Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Phillip Lahm and Thomas Muller
Colombia's James Rodriguez,
Brazil's Neymar
Netherlands - Arjen Robben

Personally I think James Rodriguez is in with a shout, along with Di Maria and hate to say it but Mascherano been pretty solid. Germany been more about the team then individuals imo.

Golden Glove
Costa Rica's Keylor Navas,
Germany's Manuel Neuer
Argentina's Sergio Romero

Personally I think Navas has been outstanding in many ways. Neuer has played as a really good sweeper keeper but Navas has had to do more and deserves the award for helping drag Costa Rica so far.

young player at the tournament.
Netherlands' Memphis Depay
France - Paul Pogba and Raphael Varane

Not sure on this one, pretty equal but think Depay may just scrape it.

 

[Calaen]

For impact and peformances it has to be Rodriguez, however Lahm has been superb and solid despite being played all over the park.

 

[Corran]

I didn't think Lahm was that great in the defensive midfielder role personally, which is why I went for Rodriguez

 

[Ch3tan]

Humels for me.

 

[Gwadien]

Rooney, obviously.

 

[ileks]

Muller for me. He's looked unplayable when I've seen him.

 

[ileks]

Not sure why but I'm looking forward to tonight's game more than the final!

If Brazil get hammered again...

 

[Calaen]

Brazlol

 

[soze]

Ref bottled it blatant red and free kick.

 

[Moriath]

Damn bias refs just cause it's first min should def been red

 

[MrBic]

prefer when they dont give red cards in those situations. wasnt a dangerous tackle and gettinng a penalty against you that early is punishment enough

 

[Calaen]

Luiz is hideous haha

 

[Moriath]

prefer when they dont give red cards in those situations. wasnt a dangerous tackle and gettinng a penalty against you that early is punishment enough

It's not that. its the last man and Robben in a goal scoring position there's no room for the ref to manoeuvre when he's dragged back. It's written that he has to get a red card. Refs just making his own rules up. Which is wrong

 

[Edmond]

Probably the first and last time I will post in this thread, but this is funny

Apparently North Korea are in the World Cup Final and are to play Portugal

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/12/north...its-team-has-reached-world-cup-final-4796033/

 

[Shagrat]

lol Brazil

 

[Moriath]

Giggle sideshow bob strikes again

 

[soze]

What a shit choice. He is not a defender.

 

[Embattle]

The 40+ million we got for him looks better and better every game.

 

[Calaen]

He's far too emotional to be a defender

 

[Lethul]

Luiz and Jõ :S

 

[Calaen]

Ron Vlaar has been superb as the middle centre back.

 

[Calaen]

Haha proper hoofed Ray Mears