That’s what I’ve been since my last post- it’s not a case of sulking at United’s ability to throw away an eight point lead at the top of the premiership (well perhaps just a little bit). In fact I feel a bit like the bloke in the new Paddy Power advert who says he feels dirty as he has backed against his own team. When United had the aforementioned lead I decided to “buy some insurance” against the unthinkable happening by laying them at 1.45 to win the premiership- it hasn’t eased the pain although always the optimist I have greened it up so perhaps it doesn’t count as betting against them after all? Not that important anyway City will thrash a poor QPR team and United will struggle against Sunderland. I hope I’m proved horribly wrong. I had to laugh when Sir Alex Ferguson moaned about the transfer market and accused City of causing transfer fee inflation- he seems to conveniently forget that he was more than happy to accept 70 million pounds for Christinao Ronaldo!

My last post about the Racing Post golf picks and staying away from Jeremy Chapman proved that I know bugger all as he proceeded to tip the first two places! Hmmm. Luckily for me I’ve been following the golf betting tips from the golf guru service which have been in absolutely blinding form recently. I’ve been using the same stakes that I use for the racing post golf picks and the results have been pretty spectacular with winners like Bubba Watson at the masters (50/1) Jason Duffner (28/1 (a doubly superb result as Steve Palmer had picked him that week as well!) and also Rickie Fowler at 50/1 this weekend. Said it before plenty of times that golf betting can involve long losing runs when you are trying to find winners at those sorts of long odds so to get three in a very short period of time really does help.

I’ve got no sort of financial affiliation with the guy so not going to list prices etc but its not expensive and well worth a look.

Congrats to Ronnie o ‘Sullivan on winning the snooker and while the majority of my bets were skewed towards the Betfred Judd Trump cashback or a possible 147 I still came out nicely ahead due to Bet Victor offering money back if the rocket won and also William hill being very generous  with their odds pre tournament. In case of Victor let’s hope the “gentleman bookmaker” doesn’t get his gubbing stick out which he has a tendency to do when people hit the various cashbacks. It’s a book I use frequently as their football odds on the premiership are very good and it would be a shame to see it go. Mind you now I think about it I’m bound to get banned for having the temerity to take the best prices all the time

Racing wise I’m becoming like a broken record promising all sorts of data on my first full year of following Hugh Taylor yet not coming up with the goods. My excuse this time around has been that he has had such a good month I’ve not been able to keep up with the flow of winners. That’s a piss poor excuse I know and I will get on the case ASAP. The racing certainly has been rather fortunate at the moment and this current hot streak was summed up by the market examiner pick yesterday trailing by ten lengths only to see the leader fall at the last and get knocked over at 1.05. Not complaining as plenty of times when those sorts of things go against you.