Midweek Football Thread. *spoilers* 25-27

Nice to see Cairney getting one for City. Quite highly rated by those I've spoken to here.

jrodga2k5 said:
The only way to win decent money on these so called "dead-certs" is to bet them all and as we see in Football, nothing is that simple. If such bets were a "dead-certs" then they would work everytime.
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I put "dead-certs" in quotation marks specifically because I don't believe they are so, but they strike me as the way bookies attract people to accumulators. Tempt them to bet on several seemingly-likely outcomes, giving them nice long odds as a multiplier of them all, and then laugh when the law of averages inevitably means it doesn't go to plan.

As I was saying, it seem to me like it's pretty much just a long shot, high-odds bet, only with more chance of it going wrong, as it's dependant on several results, rather than one.
 
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Just because it's dependent on several results, doesn't mean to say there's more chance of it going wrong. That's the whole point of betting odds, an approximation of how likely something is deemed to happen.

Take MU vs Arsenal at the weekend, IMO there's at least as much chance of getting the winner of that match wrong, as there was of getting either of the Arsenal-Portsmouth and Wigan-MU results wrong last weekend.

IMO accumulators are not inherently better or worse than any other type of bet, the beauty of gambling is that over time the system approaches a sort of equilibrium state (with the equilibrium point being on the bookies side obviously, as you can see from looking at the combined odds of all outcomes).
 
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Yessssssssssssssssssssssss!!! Come on the hammers!! 1-1

Shame about the trouble but it doesn't surprise me as this was going to kick off. I saw loads of Millwall supporters away from Upton Park on my way home tonight.
 
Loki said:
Sounds as thought the violence is pretty heavy by all accounts. Pitch invasions, running battles outside.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8221451.stm
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Doesn't sound very good.

Though I am a West Ham fan I know through friends etc that the West Ham hardcore knew that Millwall were planning something and looking to cause major havoc (i.e. hitting any hammers fan, smashing windows, attacking pubs/business etc).

I'm not saying hammers fans shouldn't be blamed as they too have been planning something too.

The police and football association should've not allowed any Millwall fans at this game as Millwall have had many previous hooliganism encounters before.
 
Psycho Ned said:
Sounds like some idiotic behaviour by the West Ham players when scoring has done no good here.

Phil Thompson was moaning about it before it all kicked off again.
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Phil Thompson just moans for the sake of it!! I'm sure he celebrated very passionately when he played against his rivals Everton.
 
Nogimmix said:
Phil Thompson just moans for the sake of it!! I'm sure he celebrated very passionately when he played against his rivals Everton.
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But I'm not entirely sure that he would have slid towards a clearly aggravated corner of West Ham and Millwall fans. I'm not saying that Stanislas should be punished, but you can't say that it was a clever thing to do.

3-1, Hines.
 
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