Live Blogging International Football

Backed Algeria £10 at 2.3 vs Luxembourg

Layed England £25 at 2.5 vs France

GOLO: Benzema 16mins good start

This England side is perfect to lay, too much inexperience, France need a win to lift confidence. England now 7s, going to wait a bit before covering myself. See how the game pans out.

Luxembourg still 0-0. 48mins.

Isn't Nasri a beautiful footballer? Not in a sexual way, although he does slightly resemble a thai lady boy. He could be the key to the next French generation. Actually, he will be the key, Gourcuff isn't up to scratch.

I can't believe I'm actually watching Lux vs Alg.

2030: Time to drink another London Pride, hoping the comfort of a few pints of plain will numb the pain of watching this 'football'.

2033: Nice to see England resort to playing that beautiful breed of football they call 'the English way'. 40 yard punt forward, Carroll nods down, Gerrard strikes over. Us Latin countries are eternally jealous of this style of football.

2034: Luxembourg have an attack. This is news worthy.

2036: One of the officials is sporting a fine tache for Movember. Either that or he's Russian, where Movember cometh not once a year, it cometh as part of the package.

2040: Algeria miss an easy chance. Cleared off the line. Sigh.

2042: Really enjoying the colour commentary from Andy Townshend in the England match. An exemplerary Irishman. 'We have to try and play down the flanks'. I think he's commentating on the Eire match, it's quite psychedelic listening to this.

2043: England now 10.0 to back, might cover soon.

2048: Mexican wave in the England match. Yeah, the fans are that bored.

2049: Half Time Boos in England match...

2053: Great save by Lux keeper...the wanker.

Portugal vs Spain set to start, might lay Spain...

2100: Not looking good in the Algeria game, 5 mins to go...

2102: Seriously bad miss by Algeria :(

2104: Why is Portugal playing in white? ffs, we're at home, we shouldn't be pandering to the Spaniards. grr.

2106: Laid Spain for £25 at 2.4

2107: Algeria finishes 0-0. Fail.

2112: Barca vs Real starts a couple weeks early. Busquets takes our Ronaldo, yellow card. A minute later, Ronaldo returns the favour, yellow.

2116: 2-0 France, no need to cover, England won't score 3.

2122: Looks like Ronaldo coming off injured, think I'll exit the bet if he does, we just don't have enough attacking potential without him.

2125: Just realised I'm missing The Apprentice. I mean the ITV pundits try their best, but nobody beats Alan Sugar for one-liners.

2126: Who do you guys reckon is the hottest on The Apprentice, the blonde (Stella I think) or that brunette with short hair? I'm going for the blonde, she looks kinkay.

2134: Massive miss by David Silva, all alone in the box, heads wide from the penalty spot. Hits the target, and thats a golo.

2140: OMG

ROnaldo with the greatest skill, chips Casillas, it's pretty much in, why does nani nod it in? Nani was offside...god. I think nani was onside anyway, and he was inside the goal too i think, that ball went in ffs. Ronaldo robbed of a true wonder goal.

2141: SPain clear one off the line! Crowd going crazy! But we still didnt score ffs

Still creaming myself over that goal by ronaldo that should have been

2148: GOLOOOOOOOOO POR TU GAL

POR TU GAL

POR TU GAL

POR TU GAL

fabulous from CR7, and superb finish by Carlos Martins

2156: The Asian girl, Sandish, sacked in The Apprentice. Doesn't Alan Sugar usually sack the Asian girl in the second week?

2158: England loses 2-1, Crouch scored on 85mins, and Engerland rallied late, but not good enough.

2212: POSTIGAAAAA

2-0

good stuff.

2220: Here's the Ronaldo goal that was wrongly disallowed, what a masterpiece



2230: 3-0!!!!

WOW

postigolo!!!!

haha take that spain, you fkin cheating cooonts

2238: This should be 5-0, spain are rattled.

2256: 4-0

ALMEIDA

ALL OVER

SPAIN GOT A ROLLOCKING

GAUDI, KING PHILIP, DALI, PICASSO, PENELOPE CRUZ, YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING

good night, much love

A portrait of the artist as a gambler

I've always had the urge to just put everything down and run to a far-away place, attempting to become some kind of a Kurtz-like figure imposing my influence on some culture that simply isn't ready for me.

I'd probably choose Brazil as my destination, and would head for the hills, attempting to bribe and infiltrate my way into a select community, before building up my influence and attempting to conquer the favelas, and then the rest of the country.

This urge has amplified in recent weeks. Maybe it's the fact that all I seem to do is work, and yet can't afford anything of note, the fact that I am braindead all day long, and then go home and watch tv or youtube to complete a day of brainfrying. Maybe it's the fact that all I can see when I wake up is suffering. In the mirror, on the street, opposite me on the train. That Monday morning look, is this all really worth it?

I look at others going to work every morning, and it kills me. That look of hopelessness, of being beaten to nothing by the system. I often feel this intense sympathy, and feel it strongly, until some fat unhygenic person stands next to me and starts sneezing in my direction. Then I go back to thinking about Brazil.

And so what have I been doing the past 6 months? Avoiding poker for one. And avoiding anything productive too. I've been seeing a girl for a while, and end up doing nothing with her, which gets me thinking, when has a man ever achieved anything with a woman by his side? It's pretty rare.

There are many distractions in this world, to stop us ever achieving anything. For most of us, it is work which is our major distraction. Travelling to and from work, being at work, getting ready for work, we're talking 11 or 12 hours a day. And then the rest of our time is taken up by women, television, gambling and drugs/alcohol.

I guess it's a real life sedative, putting us all into a coma.


Poker:

None.

Writing:

Some.

Sports Betting:

Yeah.

Been back on the sports betting, and guess what you lucky boys and girls, I'll start sharing my tips with you all in this blog. I'm +130% this month, so let's keep this shiet up.

Right now, I got a few active bets, I got Cher and Wagner to win X-factor (15 and 200), and will lay off Wagner this week at 50, and waiting on Cher, and for Porto at 17.5 for the Europa.

Mid-week internationals = yawn. Excuse me whilst I got find an MLS or Indonesian league match to bet on.