Spurs don't get a game at all next week, didn't see that coming, so I'm pretty ok to have the one guy sit on the bench. Might even transfer him out for a DGW guy.

Chelsea or Arsenal? I'm comfortable with Raya, just not sure Palmer and Saka in my team are wise, but if they both end up contributing to a high-scoring game, I'll be licking my chops.


I saw it at 1.15 too, and was very tempted. The only problem is, they can draw one game, while Arsenal and Liverpool win the rest, and end up third. Feels unlikely, but if you think about it, it's 1.15 for them to not drop points at all. Might as well save that money and just bet on them winning every game, putting it all in on the next.

Saw that the Roma game was interrupted due to a player collapsing -- seems all right and hope he is, but this sums up my Sunday across all pools. Draws kill me...


Indeed, my only points are from Sevilla, who were the slight underdogs according to bookies!

re casperBGD, after some years on forum, I know quite a number of users who've left already, at least, counting those I have interacted with. Some quite sudden like tomahawk9 who just dropped off the face of everything with no indication whatsoever, others, have taken what I'd call sabbaticals, usually for health reasons -- but they nevertheless still drop in to say hello or keep some forum work.

leea is one from BSFL/pool who had to step back from forum "duties", but he doesn't miss any of the regular pools (understandably, these are quite easy to enter picks for). Even a couple I know from German threads and Bundesliga are officially inactive but they also keep their picks alive in pools. I'm happy they manage to find a way like this, I often think about when I can "retire" and imagine I'd still play in these kinds of pools. They're not demanding, and still somehow keep us connected.

Only scenario I leave completely is if I win a huge lottery. But I'd still probably say goodbye and sponsor some pools without participating I hope that's what happened to casperBGD

cygan, the table hurts me. Please, enough, haha but well done -Lemming-!

Little Mouse, the real Xavi, eh? I find it very hard to disagree! I almost want them to go on and win their treble, if it means Liverpool fail to win at Atalanta by 3+ goals. Almost...


And it's done. In style too. No more Vicekusen (I never heard this just Neverkusen, thanks for new knowledge haha). And they still get to keep Alonso for at least one more season.

Sure about Kaiserslautern? They're probably relegating but are saving their best for Pokal! Giant slayers, but Alonso's men will be too much eh?


Already have the longest unbeaten run. I hope they go unbeaten in all competitions this season if Liverpool fail to overcome the deficit in Italy. That would be unprecedented, and the hardest record to set. But only 10 more games to go!

They can also try and get more than 91 points to break another Bayern record as 1miau already said.

And they can end the season with no sending offs (they only had one season before that with no red cards, and had 6 last season). I actually feel people talk too little about discipline and how it affects some teams. When Arsenal fixed theirs under Arteta, they also became more stable. Barca with Xavi. I think managers/coaches do a lot in this area.

Celebrating my 10th place like it's the title, I need to whip my squad into shape, we can't just get past the season beating the leaders, we have to do it every time, against every team.

Ready for me, mitchr4?


You must want to know how it feels like being Cole Palmer MVP and sitting outside Champs League spaces.

Armour, what armour? It was the chinks in their turrets that were the problem haha. Needing last-minute winners (more this season than ever before), needing goals from outside the box (more this season since Steven Gerrard era), needing comebacks (more this season than ever before).

I know I'm only feeling it because it hurts, but this was really like that 2013 season we broke 100 goals. We kept letting in goals, but we kept shooting in more, and it came from all over the pitch. We had a stellar top half (Suarez, Coutinho, Gerrard, Sterling, Sturridge) but with a bottom half of er... what was it, Mignolet and Skrtel and Sakho and Johnson it couldn't last, unsustainable, and it eventually showed.

Simple "Hope Arsenal lose" bet today, and Villa are once more the recipients. Liverpool are currently down (surprise, surprise) though so Gunners might even be a tad complacent if we end up not winning?

100 units at Sportsbet on Villa to WIN vs Arsenal @10.63. Other odds: 10.10
Units advantage: 53
Bet ID: 661bae31fa917e00013a1fab



Yes, that's correct. You've also caught me at my worst and most inactive season... but in any case, I have a very high rate of loss, or low win percentage, but it's because I chase high odds. Generally heavy ML bets on the underdog like today's one but yes, rare accas too.

And odds are usually from data analytical. Companies like Pinnacle are called odds providers. They simply analyse data and provide odds that many bookies just take and adjust. But there are also risk management software books use, calculating liabilities (as people place bets) and adjusting odds and limits on that.

Thanks for visiting!

Great stuff, just found out about the new ambassadors (tough to beat King Kanu, that guy's pretty damned funny) thanks for the post jeremypwr!

This particular guy got my attention. Is he the Igebotz we all deserve? (Sorry padi)


Saints, Toons, make great progress for promotion and European football but in other news, Wrexham just won promotion to League One... perhaps in 2025 we'll start discussing them in EFL notblox1?

Oh man, swogerino, stop wasting money on "easy" Championship bets haha. I don't want to say it, but was right about Ipswich and Leeds not being able to take advantage of Leicester's double slip ups. Ipswich is sitting pretty on top, yes, but they'll be asking themselves how they only took 2 points in this melee. It's as if everyone's suddenly shy about reaching 100 points. As it stands, just the Foxes have a chance to get 100 -- and just 2 games ago, three teams had a chance.

Biggest winner Saints? From insurmountable gap and now a real chance for top 2!

Championship, huh. Does make a nice bunch at the summit, though.

If you read my response carefully, you'll see I'm telling him how to avoid using any wallet other than his own, and the P2P trader he's buying from. Not telling him to use the exchange, but to obtain direct contact with traders. That's how I got mine, the same guys I sell to from years ago. It's got its own risk, sure, but we all operate risking our reputations -- that's in some way a lot more secure than escrow.

Trofo if he really has Spurs assets, feel sorry for him. I'd usually have my squad packed too with Spurs if not for me trying to be smart every time with my picks.

Want to feel good guys? For some reason, my captain is Foden... I swear I've been captaining Darwin for weeks and just checking now, it's on Foden, who, even if he comes on, won't play 60 minutes.

I'm writing an e-book you should all buy from me for 1 mbtc to support my failing career in fantasy PL. "How to not lose FPL on purpose"


Call me antiFPL but I don't always believe that the best point earners are the best players -- Haaland's the best finisher in the world on stats, but I would never have him on my team (if I count cost, and sustainability, he is a player you need to prop up with a team, rather than a piece of a puzzle).

VVD isn't going to be on a FPL dream team either, Liverpool concedes FIRST in over 50% of their games. But just the way he brings confidence to the squad at the back (when he's not having an off day) makes him my first choice, over and over, and not because he's a Red.

There goes my hope for Spurs to put themselves in a better position. Thought if they had at least some pointa leading up to game vs Gunners they might be more motivated.

Maybe it really is time to view Newcastle back in brighter lights. Or is this a blip of tricks Igebotz?

Also wish I paid more attention to Isak. Sort of looked away once Wilson left my team.

Man, just as you thought things were stabilising to the season tail end, you get back to back losses for the leader. Then again, neither pretender really took advantage last week so they are now under pressure to win. Not a given, as you point out notblox1, tough opponents.

Anyone consider late surprise for 6th? Coventry, Boro, PNE, Hull... all with a shout.

Hello OP! I wish I spent more time in here!

Looks like I might have a bit of silly fun with these. I run through cheap decks a lot (rough play) but not sure I've ever bought a collectible deck, and I'll ignore that they shouldn't be played with to maintain condition eh? Consider naming the decks you've come up with today, might be easier to order?

For now I'll take:
1x Standard, custom box
1x Gilt, custom box

I'll send a custom list by your deadline. PM you with payment qs =)

Doesn't even make sense for me to check these days. I'm just swallowing it when it's above 100 sats/byte, my txs are pretty lean anyway so I don't feel the pain. Can definitely understand what it means for most people with no control or even no fee control. Though you'd have thought by now they'd have taken the effort to understand after a year of ordinals.

A year! Can't believe it's been that long. Buoyed by ATH of course.

Poor guy, seriously. At least (to my knowledge) he has never whined about it, but he's human, he's feeling all of it, just not letting it affect his game -- though I do recall the season before he left that lost look in his eyes, you know, the one you see in Rashford's eye now.

When he retires he'll write a book about it. Rooney opened up about his alcoholism, recently Danny Murphy spoke about cocaine addiction :p

I wonder in Germany, do players also "open up" or is that just an English phenom?

Eh Slissy, I thought to celebrate already but scanning our answers tells me and looks like we both missed the fact that we have one more different answer -- Spurs v Newcastle BTTS yes or no.

Thankfully, Villa and Benfica saved my ass already so we draw on the Europa/Conference league goal race. So I am still at worst, walking away with a draw.

Desperation for Liverpool, Atalanta our Achilles heel seriously.

Edit: I spoke too soon. Leverkusen scored their 2nd in 91st minute, turning our draw into a point for me, and a win for this round. Sorry I'm rubbing it in Slissy... Liverpool just got smacked badly, so I need some good news.

Hope all good KTChampions. Real life is full of things.

For Pot B, if anyone ever needs it, just PM me manual selections happy to enter for you, this goes for everyone, I don't mind helping out in emergencies, obviously don't PM me because you're lazy


Yeah I got a few points too, but nowhere near enough to catch top 10 unfortunately. Wasted on BVB and Bayern, now I need Simeone to get himself carded in the return leg to get a bit more. More hopeful than anything, I'm down and out in both Pots.

Regarding jeremypwr's submission, yeah he noted his mistake and already messaged me earlier to adjust to 5 points each. I just hadn't got round to adjusting the result sheet, it's now correct. This round actually has the fewest adjustments requested -- which either means people are really familiar with the format now, or more people are staking everything on one outcome haha.

Too lazy to read so I might be mistaken but Fenerbahce's threats to withdraw from the Turkish League means they won't be a member of the FA anymore. Doubt they'll do it, at least not until the season ends, as they'll want to be in this UEFA competition (and I'm certain cannot compete if not member of Turkish FA).

Don't know how this all affects the players on field but usually a team with external issues can't focus on the pitch -- so I'm staying off them for bets.

Villa my pick too, and that's maybe the laziest assessment but they're the only team I've seen play and they're pretty special plus got a coach who knows the map of UEFA KO tournaments Lille's not exactly a shit team though.

Kills me to be replying to a user who's left the forum, but to respond anyway, yes, I want Reds to win Europa (of course), but we already know we can't have Alonso as he's sticking with Leverkusen. Good for him, but it puts us in an awkward position of hiring possibly second-best, and long enough that even if Alonso is free, we won't have the vacancy.

Faith in Edwards and his data madness, I suppose!

What I said was you can view these traders without trading on the platform -- some leave contact details (phone, email, even site or TG) and you can usually enquire outside. That's how I found my current main p2p traders. Not sure if those platforms still allow you to leave your contact details though. Usually it's surreptitiously written as a "send me a msg when you trade so I can respond immediately".

It's just one way to find traders. I'd stick to a reputable one from this forum to start.