23rd March - 29th March - Total Profits £702.

International week for football and the lack of football leading up to the weekend left me with little to do - when I'm making a shed load then this week each year is an obvious holiday week, no tennis either on the tele until the weekend.

I withdrew £429.45 from my betfair account as I have a little cash flow situation on the domestic front.

No trades until 28th where I made £4 on the Irish U21 match.

I was looking forward to the Saturday as I hadn't traded for a while and knew there would be as much football as I could take on the television. I had prepared the family for a "football" day - told them it starts as noon and finishes at nine.

Settled down and saw the Japan v Bahrain match was on live stream. At half time the odds for the draw had just dipped below 3.00, I had got in for 3.05 and layed half of the stake at 2.94 and then the odds started rising to 3.00, which i thought was too high so I backed again and waited for the odds to decrease again - they didnt the 2nd half got under way and the odds now had reached a peak of 3.10 and started dropping. Japan got a free kick, about 30 yards out, I looked at the wall, and the position of the free kick to the goal and thought, no chance too far out - Smack, hits the wall and loops over the goalie. Well Bahrain wasnt going to score and I settled for a £189 loss. Fine way to start the football, I thought.

I traded a little on the NZ v India draw market which netted me £36.

The rest of the weekend was uneventful, I made up most of my losses and after the soft snoring noises had started, I switched over the tele to the Ecuador v Brazil match, initially thinking Brazil was in the yellow and green, until a close up of Ronaldinho in a blue shirt showed me that I was incorrect, yet it was the yellow and green side who had most of the possession but looked like they didnt have the killer touch. So I placed a lay on Ecuador for the following reasons; the odds on them winning was 3.85 - which I felt were too low. The amount of time left to play was about 20 minutes, I could only see their odds going up and lastly the odds were indeed starting to go up and at 0.05 jumps - I placed a lay of £46.50 and continued to watch. Brazil took off Ronaldinho and replaced him with that big old lump Arsenal had on loan from Real Madrid - name escapes me - 80 seconds later and the substitute had scored or rather he shot, hit the post, ball came back, hit the goalie on the head and went into the net. Took the £39 profit and turned over to watch the cricket.

So Saturday morning to Monday morning I traded from a £189 loss to a £11 profit.

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