The Bear

We thrashed these 1-0 at home....

Villa are definitely sailing close to the wind now. I'm sure Emery mentioned it before the start of the season during their summer business. All the clubs from 7th down to thr bottom three are tbh. The rules are there to restrict all those clubs from catching up too much and making them need to sell their best players. In fact Villa have just today announced a £120m loss for 22/23 period. Though there will be allowances in there that will likely bring it down a bit. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-reveal-huge-losses-28753882 They reckon they are still within PSR though as their revenue increased substantially.

It is changing as of next season I think. It's being brought in line with UEFA's FFP rules that mean you can only spend a certain percentage of your overall revenue (my vague memory says 70% or something like that). It'll still mean the big boys can outspend everyone else though. You have to sell them by the June 30th cut-off date, or they get lumped into the 23/24 period. It's what Forest are using as a flimsy defence against their points deduction, because they sold Brennan Johnson after that date so they could get more money for him and don't think it's fair they they should be punished for that.

It's almost tempting to deposit enough to hammer it with max stakes until they notice. But doing that would likely be met with terrible luck from the betting gods!

I shat it and cashed out. Deportivo just got a red card after too so glad I did. Instead of £49.68 I win £45.94. I'll take that 3.5/1 return. Good strategy, thanks Dan. No doubt if I continue winning at higher stakes they'll put a stop to me too.

Nice one. I'll be increasing my stakes after this weekend's test. Sporting just conceded for 2-2 then immediately scored again to go 3-2, with a VAR check. Deportivo conceded for 2-1 now too. I might bite the bullet and just cash out for a few quid less to make sure of a return. As long as I make £40 from a tenner's worth of bets this weekend I'm happy.

Yes just waiting on deportivo for that one. Anderlecht and Sporting in the other. I only pick those really short ones after looking at the form tab on Skybet. The other team has to have not won in the last 5 and the home team winning at least 4 out of 5 and scoring plenty. Look at Deportivo. Not guaranteed but damn they've scored at least 4 goals in all of their last 4 games, and Lugo only 3 goals in 5. Again with Hearts Women they were battering teams at least 3 nil constantly in their last 5.

He sounds like someone they've dragged out the local old folks home too.

The most unlikeable set of players in this league for a long time. Serves them right time wasting willy pullers.

Garnacho that's embarrassing.

Antony has to join Pepe as another big £70m flop. Absolute waster of a footballer.

You just hope the ref adds on loads of time for it.

😭 As I said though. The other team has lost all of their previous five games to nil so it'd be a massive upset. I checked my bets at HT and realised I had another acca with Man Utd in so quickly froze that!! That might come in too now. Odds of 18.88. Hearts Women are 3-0 up after 40 mins.

0.81 according to FotMob.

Haaland.... 😯

Just had a look on Soccerway. Farense haven't won a single point away at Sporting since 1998....

Leverkusen score 2-0 Wow my Sofascore app alerted me to the goal about 5 seconds before I watched it live on Sky. Sporting and Anderlecht left for me. Sporting are as big a home banker as you could ask for. And Anderlecht are playing a side who've lost all their last 5 games without scoring a goal. If either of those lose I'm gonna be inconsolable

As long as Leverkusen go on to win I surely can't lose this one. Koln are a man down too.

Absolutely fuming. What an amazing coincidence it goes down the very minute Man Utd score first. Edit - It's back up and the leg is already showing as frozen. I'll let them off! Must have had a massive overload of people doing the exact same thing.

The hell Skybet you shysters?

WTF. Man Utd score first, go to freeze it and it errors. Reload the page and the option is no longer there for any of the legs.

And wins 10-8. Littler had two darts at D10 to take it to a decider on his throw and missed them. Great game.

Heta playing out of his skin against Littler. First 5 legs he had a 125 average.

Doesn't have to be loads, just able to deal with any balls in behind.