Sound Financial Planning

I want to buy a laptop, I have thought about this and decided there are three ways to achieve this:

1. Buy one now and be skint for the rest of the month
2. Save
3.Gamble my way to a laptop

Option 1 is not sensible, option 2 will take a while and option 3 is risky but I come up with a plan and what a plan it is. Every Saturday I put a couple of quid on a football coupon and I'm not very good at it but hey I enjoy Soccer Saturday and it is so much better with a coupon. I got off to a great start to the season but have since faultered, so I come up with a new system.

On Friday I grab a coupon on my way home and study it intently and see there are 9 matches I think are good bets in terms of chance and payout.

These are:

Aston Villa to beat Blackburn 5/4
Bristol Rovers to beat Brighton 4/5
Charlton to beat Exeter 4/11
West Brom to beat Crystal Palace 8/15
Colchester to beat Tranmere 11/10
Forfar to beat Elgin 2/5
Spurs to beat Burnley 1/3
Middlesborough to beat Coventry 11/10
East Fife to beat Clyde 8/13

These are all sensible bets indivudually so I slam £5 on a 9 fold accumulator which if it comes up would net me £563 and therefore a brand new laptop. The chances of this happening are slim so I decide to hedge my bets by betting £5 each on 3 separate trebles:


Aston Villa to beat Blackburn 5/4
Bristol Rovers to beat Brighton 4/5
Charlton to beat Exeter 4/11

West Brom to beat Crystal Palace 8/15
Colchester to beat Tranmere 11/10
Forfar to beat Elgin 2/5

Spurs to beat Burnley 1/3
Middlesborough to beat Coventry 11/10
East Fife to beat Clyde 8/13

If any one of these comes up I will get between £22.50 and £27 therefore effectively giving me my money back if all 9 teams win I will get £71 plus the £563 from the accumulator. Total genius what can go wrong?

Actually quite a lot can go wrong. Villa get beat after like 6 straight wins, Rovers (who are third) draw with Brighton and top of the league Charlton beat struggling Exeter. No matter I can still win £45 with my other trebles.

Well actually, I can not as top of the league West Brom are held by Palace. Tranmere who are managed by John Fucking Barnes scrape a point after 5 or 6 straight defeats and Forfar draw with Elgin 3-3! Sounded like a great game to be fair. When was the last time Elgin scored 3? I want to know.

Still this totally cool as I can recoup my £20. Spurs are humping Burnley 5-0, East Fife are beating Clyde 1-0 (Clyde couldnae score in a brothel) and Middlesborough were 2-0 up at half time. Sweet with 12 minutes to go Coventry pull one back but Middlesborough will hold on. Full time is declared with Spurs and East Fife, Midedlesborough are 2-1 up injury time I'm getting £22.50 all is good. No fate hates me and Coventry equalise 5 minutes into injury time. Bastards, total cock munching bastards of the highest order. Leon Best I'm coming to get you and my retribution will not be swift .

I am now £20 down and actaully further away from a laptop. I have years of experience watching my coupons go pear shaped. Typically if I pick 9 results one or two teams will be down and out with half an hour to go but only Villa were beaten and it was by a 89th minute penalty. The rest were all draws these teams cock teased me to the very end. Needless to say I was pretty pissed.

On another note i was ID's in the bookies again by a 19 year old, I'm 27. After that I walked into an off license and was served no problems.

Last night I watched Buy The Ticke Take The Ride a Hunter S Thompson documentary. I enjoyed it but it was prety much more of the same stuff we have seen before. Although the documentary makes Sean Penn seem kinda cool, who knew that was possible?

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Right as I said in my about me I doing this because I need to rant and I can't on facebook and too many family members know about my bebo and well myspace is the forgotten child. I'm currently ill, not ill enough to stay home from work but ill enough to prevent me from drinking, which is precisely the worst kind of ill.

I initially though it was a mixture of spicy pasta and German smoke beer causing the problems but its not, which is good because smoke beer is awesome albeit dear at £2.27 a bottle. My new diet of wholemeal bread and tea while not unpleasant is not quite cutting it as Friday is chippy night and well that is not gonna happen tonight :(

I was planning to go see 500 Days of Summer last night because I have yet to hear one bad thing about it so I'lll probably check that out on Sunday. Instead I stayed at home and watched Syriana which is like Traffic but with oil. It is a good film that mainly centres around George Clooney's beard out acting everyone including its bearer. Clooney won an oscar for that role as he had shaved by time of the ceremony (clearly he was jealous of it's success) and therefore the beard was not able to pick up the award.