Diary of a Spread Bettor in Association with SportingIndex.com

by Bill Esdaile on 08.06.2010 at 12:09

Last night’s Derby Dinner revealed nothing other than the fact that I can no longer drink… however, I’m still pretty good at eating though, judged on how much I had to breath in to do up my Black Tie trousers. Anyway, I arrived at the dinner having watched Field Day finish second at Nottingham an... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 02.06.2010 at 13:22

My day began at 5.30am and I arrived at Epsom racecourse for 'Breakfast with the Stars' at 6.45am. The purpose of the breakfast is to hear from the trainers of all the leading Derby hopefuls and see a few of them go through their paces around Tattenham Corner (the horses that is, rather than their t... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 20.05.2010 at 15:58

Thursday 13th May I backed Russian Spirit to win the Totepool Flexi Betting Handicap (also known as the York 1.40pm), so was mildly disappointed to find out later he was beaten at halfway! I tried to ring up a commentary line from the bogs of the restaurant I was in at the time, but they had no rec... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 05.05.2010 at 08:52

My wife went to London for the day, so I did the 'school run'. Alfie (our two-year-old), has yet to ‘go into training’, so just helped me in getting the other two to the right place on time. I had been instructed to stay with Eliza at her Nursery for a little while after drop-off as she can get a li... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 14.04.2010 at 10:15

Having spent the best part of five hours in the car yesterday afternoon, I arrived at the Holland Hall Hotel in Skelmersdale (20 minutes from Aintree) just in time for the United v Munich game. In fact, just in time to see Darron Gibson (with 28 on his back) give the hosts a 1-0 lead inside two minu... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 07.04.2010 at 13:58

Forget things like ‘Crop Circles’, will someone please explain how Arsenal prevented Barcelona from scoring at least twice in the opening twenty minutes at the Emirates last night. My head said Barcelona before kick-off, but it was my bloody heart that sold £200 of their supremacy at 0.2 and £15 of... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 31.03.2010 at 09:34

I was on course for a monster evening of profit when Bobby Zamora, with number 25 between his shoulder blades, gave Fulham the lead in the 17th minute at White Hart Lane last night. Not only had I sold £150 of Spurs goal supremacy at 0.8, I’d also sold £5 of shirt supremacy at 9. Therefore, you can... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 24.03.2010 at 06:12

Forpadydeplasterer didn’t beat Big Zeb in their Champion Chase match bet, Silk Affair ran too bad to be true, Son Amix could only finish fourth and Elegant Concorde is still running. However, yesterday was still a thumping success because Weapon’s Amnesty, my big ante-post investment of the meeting... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 17.03.2010 at 05:17

Wayne Rooney scored a goal in each half last night against AC Milan to take his tally for the season to 30. Yet, when you have sold £200 of goals at 2.9, those opening two goals are not the problem. The alarm bells began to ring in the 59th minute when Park scored, but I was still only looking at... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 10.03.2010 at 03:03

When Zidan (only a missing 'e' prevents him from dining at football's top table) put Egypt into a well deserved lead after 23 minutes, all looked rosy in the garden of Esdaile. When I left you last week, I wrote of my determination to get with the visitors and my £150 sell of supremacy at 1.3 and my... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 24.02.2010 at 08:16

There’s only one Lukasz Fabianski… Thank God! Poland’s version of ‘Coco The Clown’ stepped in to replace injured Manuel Almunia in goal for Arsenal’s Champions League clash with Porto last night and didn’t cover himself in glory. More importantly, he didn’t cover much and scored in his own net aft... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 17.02.2010 at 09:56

My £150 sell of goals at 2.5 in the previous night’s Arsenal v Liverpool game yielded a £225 profit as there was only one goal in the game. I immediately re-invested my winnings on Harry Tricker and Fairyland in the totesport Hurdle ahead of the weekend. The former is bidding to land a hat-trick o... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 11.02.2010 at 02:57

Tottenham did beat Leeds in the Cup last night thanks to a Jermaine Defoe hat-trick. The good news is that he wears the number 18 shirt, so I netted a £217 profit for my £7 buy of shirt supremacy as well as the £110 for my buy of Tottenham goal supremacy. The bad news is that as an Arsenal fan, To... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 03.02.2010 at 09:30

Bookings made up at 30 (three yellows) in the Tevez v Neville Carling Cup semi-final, so I waved goodbye to 36 points. As far as I’m concerned they are both ‘sock-suckers’ (to quote Tevez) for not settling the issue in public. According to the press, the whole episode has now been forgotten. Does th... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 29.01.2010 at 12:17

Walk on, Walk oooonnnn... I was right (and that doesn't happen very often). Liverpool beat Spurs 2-0 at Anfield last night and won me £255 for my £150 buy of their supremacy at 0.3. Dirk Kuyt popped up with both goals meaning that shirt supremacy made up a whopping 36 (18 x 2) and netted me anothe... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 20.01.2010 at 03:37

When Liverpool went 1-0 up at home to Reading last night on the stroke of half-time, I feared for my £150 sell of supremacy at 2. However, Sigurdsson leveled in injury time to take the FA Cup tie into extra-time. It made no difference to me that the visitors went on to win the game - I made my £300... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 13.01.2010 at 04:20

Goals did make-up at zero as predicted in last night’s Arsenal game, but sadly not because Bolton battled out a goalless draw, but because the match was abandoned because of the snow. I’m not sure about anyone else, but I’m getting pretty bored of this weather. The snow also claimed this afternoo... Read more

by Bill Esdaile on 07.01.2010 at 03:36

Let it snow, let it snow… let in snow! The snow started to fall heavily from 5pm and by the time the Stoke v Fulham game started, there must have been 4 inches outside. When Sanli scored the opener on 12 minutes (should have backed him to score first as his name is pretty close to Stanley and Ta... Read more