JimmyB

It’s mental that Ipswich will likely be 4th before they play again.

My 3 year fix at 1.49% ends in October, 2 year fix on offer is 5.84% which means more than a 50% rise on my monthly payments. I think I’ll opt for a 2 year tracker at Base +0.14%. From what I can tell for me to lose out by doing this the rate would have to rise another 0.75% (or worse) and not come down within 2 years. Tough decision, I could do with knowing exactly what my payments will be but I’m partial to bit of a flutter now and again.

Just spotted a mental stat which may have been mentioned already, apologies if so. Only Arsenal (9) and Manchester City (9) have scored more away goals than Leicester (8) this season. We’ve lost every game. Comical.

Looking for 1 or 2 adult tickets if anyone ends up with spares. Cheers.

Anyone want 2 adult tickets in SK1 for free? You’ll have to collect from Enderby.

I’ve got 2 adult tickets in SK1 going spare for this if anyone wants them for free? Will need to be collected from me in Enderby tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

Spurs created more xG last night than we did in the 9-0 against Southampton. That’s just mental. We really were awful. For 75 minutes they had 9 players who I’d consider defenders or at least defensive minded. They had 5 at the back and their midfield 3 was the equivalent of us fielding Mendy, Ndidi and Choudhury alongside wing backs. Embarassing.

The equaliser definitely shouldn’t have counted, player standing 3 yards offside impedes Castagne and Evans who ends up heading the ball straight into the air. Clearly active in the play.

He played the Post Horn Galop at my wedding a couple of years ago, it was bloody brilliant. I’m told he’s not been at band practice since June but does pick his kid(s) up from school daily. Says to me that either he’s lost his love for music or the club have pulled the plug. Hopefully the latter and the club reinstate him soon.

I’m sure that Youri figure is our portion of his wages when he was here on loan. We were probably paying at most 50% so he’s more than likely on at least twice that.

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For Comparison… Robertson (0) Wijnaldum (0) Salah (1) Firmino (2) TAA (2) Mané (3) Alisson (5) Fabinho (8) 8 players, all in their best 11 I’d say.

According to WhoScored only 5 players didn’t miss at least 10 premier league games for one reason or another.. Schmeichel (0) Tielemans (0) Vardy (4) Maddison (7) Albrighton (7) Vardy and Maddison’s definitely injuries, Albrighton more than likely an unused substitute on 7 occasions. That. Is. Ridiculous.

Very fair question mate. You have to remember that the Index was licensed and regulated by the gambling commission from the get go. Surely at some point their business model must’ve been scrutinised and deemed sustainable? If it was sustainable at the start, it certainly wasn’t once they implemented order books and were unable mint shares as consistently, coupled with promising big improvements like NASDAQ integration and not delivering, it seems we were only heading in one direction. I’m sure any platform of this type would now be under the microscope much more than FI was and rightly so. It really did change the way many people watched football. I reckon I used to bet maybe £20 a week through SkyBet / Betfair but this completely stopped once I signed up to the Index, looks like I’ll be back on the 10-fold accumulators this weekend!

Proper numpty comment. Thousands of football fans have lost millions of pounds between them and you’ve popped in to gloat because you didn’t like the concept 2 and a half years ago. I’ll answer your question anyway, it went horribly for me, as I’ve already mentioned. There is however, loads of people who took profits and changed their lives, house deposits, new cars etc. Fair play to them. If I had any great need for the funds I’d invested then I could’ve taken profits at some point too. Other than the last few months where it’s clearly turned sour, I really enjoyed the Index, clearly so have many others and pretty much all are hoping that it returns in a more sustainable manner.

Peach has summed it up really well. Money always felt relatively safe, the constant pumping of the product, it’s finances and future plans coupled with the fact they were in the middle of a massive marketing push made it feel like a very credible business. The Football Index badge is still on the shirts of Forest and QPR and doing the rounds on the pitch side advertising boards at nearly all premier league matches. This is not some dodgy backstreet bookie gone pop, it’s millions and millions of pounds up in smoke and I still can’t work out how they managed to screw it up so badly. The concept is so good and so much fun but they’ve massively over complicated it to a point where even they didn’t know what was going on. Now I just have to wait for for it to hit the mainstream media and answer all the calls from family that knew I was balls deep. The money lost is gutting but most of all myself and everyone else I know involved just feel so stupid to have been diddled like this. Everything just feels off with how it’s gone down, criminal almost. We’ll see what transpires I guess.

Yep still stuck with pretty much all the money that I’ve invested in the last 3 years, luckily I hadn’t been enjoying it quite so much recently so had stopped putting money in for about the last 6 months. As has been said it’s a great concept but clearly in the wrong hands, what they’ve done in the last few months has been borderline criminal, saying the company was in a great position financially just a few weeks back, minting new shares in players at high prices based on the existing dividend structure before reducing dividends by about 80%. Looking at twitter, people (understandably) are not gonna take this lying down. It’s a bloodbath. I apologise to anyone here that might have deposited on the back of my positive posts in this thread, I, and everyone I know never saw this coming, I’m absolutely gutted for everyone involved. Within 3 months I’ve gone from 150% profit to 65% down, my portfolio is worth pretty much 1/6 of what it was at Christmas 🥺 and if I’m honest other than a bit of naivety it’s no fault of my own or other traders, solely Football index moving the goalposts and screwing people over. It’s a massive shame as it really did have the potential to be absolutely incredible.

What have people made of the Index since the implementation of the matching engine? I’d actually had a pretty profitable lockdown period surprisingly but now my portfolio has completely stagnated. There’s so much money to be made if you can just keep ploughing money into buy orders but if you need to sell to buy you’ve got bob hope.

What have people made of the Index since the implementation of the matching engine? I’d actually had a pretty profitable lockdown period surprisingly but now my portfolio has completely stagnated. There’s so much money to be made if you can just keep ploughing money into buy orders but if you need to sell to buy you’ve got bob hope.

They’re protecting their heavily invested customers at the minute. If they’d kept 5% spreads across the board everyone would’ve sold up and values dropped through the floor. They’re making the best of a bad situation in my opinion. There’ll be a boom as soon as football is back no doubt.

Just been told he’s bought a house in Tring. Could be wrong, could be nothing, could be on his way to reunite with NP at Watford 🤔

Absolutely hate VAR, for me it’s completely ruining the game. Whether that’s watching at the ground and not really being able to celebrate a goal until the oppo have kicked off or watching on TV and seeing a perfectly good goal scored and knowing it’s going to be chalked off because the laws of the game are now a joke. I can completely accept decisions like last night, with the rules as they are it was clearly correct, probably not fair but definitely correct. What is not ok is the shear ridiculousness of some decisions nowadays, firstly on the pitch and then by the VAR, it’s absolute madness. I remember very early in the season we were said to be one of the biggest beneficiaries are VAR, because of decisions like the handball for Wolves disallowing their goal, apparently we were lucky even if it was 100% the correct decision. Was it Son caught offside for a goal at the King Power? Massively changed the game but with the technology, clearly the correct decision. More recently a point gained at Wolves because of an innocuous but yet again correct offside call. It just seems that, with my blue tinted specs on, whenever a referee or a VAR have to give a decision based on opinion rather than fact, we’re getting diddled, and for me, we have been all season. Primarily against the bigger teams, any coming together in the box has been a penalty to them, consistently very soft decisions going against us, decisions where because we now have VAR the on field ref will give it because he’s probably thinking ‘if it’s an awful decision, VAR will overrule it’. Problem is, if there’s any contact, even if it’s initiated by the attacker, it’s not getting overruled. Not just regarding us but this led to a spate of really soft penalties, that in my opinion probably wouldn’t have been given without the VAR. The ones involving us that I can think of: Rashford throwing himself to the ground at Old Trafford after jumping in front of Soyuncu. Mane doing some sort of somersault when Albrighton tickled his calf. Sterling throwing himself over Pereira’s leg in the defeat at City. On the flip side, similar to the above incidents, Vardy being tripped at home against Everton and exaggerating the fall, no penalty and a yellow for diving, VAR agrees, there’s simply no consistency. Handball is a joke also, I do think regarding ruling out goals when a hands involved they’ve got those correct in all our games from what I’ve seen. That Burnley v Bournemouth game the other week though, what a farce that was. Just embarrassingly bad. The 2 handballs that we’re given were clearly shoulder, the decisions were atrocious. Those 2 decisions actually created a 3 goal swing in a game for team battling to avoid relegation, Bournemouth must’ve been livid. Big club bias with handball in our games has been clearly evident too, I think we all agree that Praets was a penalty no doubt, but The De Bruyne and Rudiger a few weeks ago were laughable, to me both players moved there hands to the ball, it’s madness. Another one that annoyed me was at home when we got battered by the Scousers, we were well in the game at 1-0 and actually having our best spell of the match when the penalty was given against Soyuncu. His hand is by his side, you’ve got probably the best crosser in the country whipping in a corner and Vardy I think misses a header 5 yards in front of him, he’s tucking his hand behind his back when it hits him, not a chance he means to handle it. No doubt we’ve been garbage lately too to be fair but it’d be a massive shame if these decisions and our loss form actually ended in us missing out on the Champions League after we’d found ourselves in such an amazing position.

Biggest tip is to spend some time getting to know the market before you invest too heavily. Put in a small amount, trade in and out of a few players and watch tutorials on how everything works before getting too involved. I track all my profit (and loss) on a spreadsheet which I find really useful. Sometimes I think I’m having a torrid time but then I zoom out and realise I’m actually in profit over the last week or month. It really is a great platform and still in its infancy I think. Advertising on TV and at Premier League games is going to help growth moving forward.

Did you sell? I do think he has the potential to rise as the Index itself grows but short term looks like a good decision if you got out in December.

Always wonder why I don’t lump on players like him and Ziyech, both were available for around £2 2 weeks ago. If he joins Utd then he’ll probably be pushing £4 by the time he kits ups, any other Prem team sees him above £3 I guess. Just worry what his price does if he goes elsewhere or stays put.