That is a very wrong way to see things. And funny enough that is how some gamblers approaches the matter. Do will not consider how much they earn and how much the person they are looking upto earns. There speedy conclusion is always, he is my fellow man, he has lost $2k and still alive, is it this $200 that I lost that will kill me. They will not even consider of the person they are looking upto earns much more higher than they do. They will also not consider if the person has recently won big and decided to return some portion of their winnings to the casino.

If is high time we stopped comparing ourselves to others and focus on ourselves and our budget and take gambling as fun. Emotions differs and the mind to bear losses differ too. Someone who earns $100 daily can be able to lose $10k and still remain strong while someone that earns $200 daily will be devastated if he loses $2k

No! and No! I do not have such time to read through the lengthy and boring terms of services. I think many casinos deliberately make such terms to be overly lengthy in order to discourage gamblers from reading from beginning to the ending. Whenever there is an issue relating to the customer, the will easily dig up a section of the ToS to defend themselves.

Whenever I want to play in a new casino, I read the terms of services as it relates to;

• Strictness of KYC
• Deposit and withdrawal policies

Apart from the above two, I can go well with any casino because I do not have the intention of cheating any casino.

I am remaining myself in gambling by still maintaining my pace and I do not spend more than needed in gambling because Christmas is on the way or for whatever reason. I have remained consistent, and that big money I haven't won since the year began, there is no guarantee that I will win this money just because of the Christmas.

This is unlike some of my friends who has increased their stake and the frequency at which they gamble. They have target to win big before the Christmas, this has only led them to spending much more than before. They are so committed to it and at least one among them might be able to win big, because the commitment is much. I do not condemn their gesture but I believe I cannot handle that pressure when there are other things to do with money.

Tottenham Hotspur seems to be on their way to return to their good form which they started the season with. Assuming they didn't drop and remained consistent in that very form, they would have being at the top of the table by now. But it is always difficult for a club to remain consistent throughout the season especially when they do not have a good squad depth.

Tottenham is enjoying their stay at the 5th position in the table and this will remain pending the outcome of other matches this weekend. Oh no! Tottenham is not threatened even if Manchester United happens to win Liverpool because they are 6 points ahead of Manchester United. So, even if Manchester United impossibly wins Liverpool, they will remain at their 6th position.

Robert Lewandowski has been one if the best players in Europe for more the past decade and considering all his achievement in football, I think he can boldly say that he's delivered great performance and impact in European football of the past twelve year. If truly he has received offers by the Saudi teams, I don't think player of his age and achievement will want to remain at Barcelona when he knows he can't be as impactful as he was when he was younger.
Lewandowski undoubtedly will make a good signing for any Saudi team if he gets the chance because the league isn't as competitive as the leagues the Poland has played all his life in Europe. From my own personal perspective about Lewandowski's future, I think the Polish striker is definitely gonna leave the Camp Nou next summer and a move to the Saudi Pro League wouldn't be a bad idea since their financial packages are always juicy.

Tottenham Hotspur's win tonight after their convincing win against Newcastle last weekend I think goes a long way to explain how good of a side they can be and their level of determination to return to the summit of the English Premier League standings. Before the their last weekend win against Newcastle, they had already gone five league games without a win in which they lost three and shared points in the rest two of the games including draw against Manchester City. During that period, a lot of their first team players were out injured as well as those that were suspended but since last weekend that Romero came back to the squad, they've been performing well especially in the defense side of the team.

Their next league game will be against Everton who's been absolutely on fine form this season despite their point deduction for financial fair play violations and that game is definitely gonna be a very difficult game for Tottenham Hotspur but I believe they can still take all three points from the game of they can play at their best like they did tonight.

Lyon is one of the traditional clubs in France and over the years has been one of the top clubs in the league but since the start of the season, they've been absolutely poor with their performance while Monaco where 20 points better than Lyon before their game on Friday night have been on of the best teams on the league this season. But surprisingly, Lyon who were the away side in the game, defeated Monaco tonight. What even made the result of the game more shocking is the fact that Monaco failed to score in the game as well despite playing in front of their home fans. I don't think there's any game in the French Ligue 1 this weekend that's gonna produce a more surprising result than we saw tonight.

Lyon who's been struggling since the start of the league and were at the bottom of the league table before the game tonight have moved up to the 16th position of the league after that surprise win and I think the result is gonna go a long way in improving the general performance of the team as they continue to fight for safety in the French Ligue 1 standings.

Barcelona is currently not financially stable enough to outrightly sign a player of Victor Osimhen's quality and that's because of the current financial crises at the club. However, if they should for any reason have the financial power to sign Victor Osimhen, I don't think the Nigeria international will like to join a club like Barcelona because I don't think he'll fit in with Barcelona's style of football. Xavi Hernandez plays a possessive style of football that allows the midfield players to be the main focal points of the team while Osimhen enjoys attacking football that provides strikers more chances to score goals.

Victor Osimhen has been linked with a lot of top clubs in Europe especially English Premier League clubs and that's why I think the current African player of the year is definitely gonna leave the Diego Armando Maradona stadium next summer but I don't expect Camp Nou to be his destination.

Karim Benzema a five-time tournament winner of the competition, scored a goal in his club's FIFA Club World Cup game against Auckland City to become the first player in the history of the competition to score in four different editions. His goal in that game also took his total number of goals in the competition to five goals which makes him the third all time top scorer in the competition two behind Cristiano Ronaldo and one goal behind second all time top scorer of the competition Gareth Bale.

That being said, Benzema scored again today but his stoppage time goal wasn't enough to stop African champions Al Ahly from defeating Al Ittihad and send the out of the competition. The performance if Karim Benzema and his teammates today was very poor in my own opinion and that's why they were beaten by the better team in the game. They return back to the Saudi Pro League to continue from where they stopped in the league. Benzema is currently 35 years of age but judging by his current strength and general performance, I think the former French international still have few years to play professional football again.

The final whistle has been blown in the English Premier League game between Nottingham Forest vs Tottenham Hotspur at the City Ground and the away team was able to fight till the last second of the game to claim all three points in a match that was filled with controversial moments that the VAR had to be introduced on intervals for clear decision to be made. Brazilian Richarlison and swedish forward player Dejan Kulusevski goals were what Tottenham Hotspur needed to grab all three points from the game. The home side gave their best but unfortunately for them their best wasn't enough to stop a Tottenham Hotspur team that was on their riot mood through out the match. Tottenham Hotspur after convincingly winning their last league game against Newcastle was in their best tonight and that's why they were able to stop the home side from finding the back of the next despite playing the last 20 minutes of the game with 10-man.

Tottenham Hotspur's win tonight takes them to 33 points which is also the same number of points of fourth placed Manchester City who welcome Crystal Palace tommorow at the Etihad for their own match week 17 game. Tottenham I think still stands a chance to return at the summit of the league if they continue with this kind of performance if tonight.

I've closely followed the development at Liverpool since the start of the season and I don't think that there's anyone who has done same that will want to write them off as potential winners of the UEFA Europa League competition. The fact that they lost to Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise doesn't in anyway make them less of a favorite to win the trophy. Before the game yesterday, Liverpool had already secured top spot as the group winners of their group and you don't expect the manager of the side to field a strong side when they already have a very busy schedule. He rested most of the first team players so they can be fit for the most busy three weeks in the English Premier League.

Liverpool had a very poor campaign last season and are very determined to make up their shortcomings this season by winning as many trophies as possible. For a truth, the English Premier League title is more important than the UEFA Europa League competition but Jurgen Klopp is convinced that his team can win the two trophies and I expect them to at least reach the semi finals of the Europa League competition.

There's no team in the English Premier League that's not a strong opponent regardless of who they're facing and that's why I don't think it'll be a good idea for Tottenham Hotspur to underrate their hosts tonight. Tottenham before last weekend's win against Newcastle had gone five league matches without a win and during the 5 match winless run, they've lost against teams like Chelsea, Wolves, Aston Villa and West Ham and that's why I think they're very beatable. Tottenham Hotspur's manager Ange Postecoglou I know is manager that is always cautious of his moves and would never want to underestimate any opponent.

That being said, Tottenham Hotspur who were at the top of the league before they lost to Chelsea are currently trying to return back to the summit of the league standings and their convincing win against Newcastle last weekend is a proof that they're very determined to achieve their goal to topping the league table once again and if they can replicate that same performance against Newcastle tonight against Nottingham Forest, I think they're going to grab all three points from the game.

I don't think that there's anyone who would've predicted after fourteen German Bundesliga games that Bayer Leverkusen will not just be at the top of the league standings but also be the only team in the league not to have lost any league game. The Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen has not just been the most consistent team in the German Bundesliga this season but have also been playing with more determination than any other side in the league including reigning champions Bayern Munich. The playing pattern that Alonso has adopted into the team has set them aside from the rest of the teams in the league and if they can continue with their current performance, they're likely to finish the season with the Bundesliga title and end Bayern Munich's dominance in the league.

Bayern Munich who are currently four points behind Bayer Leverkusen and having played one game less than the current leaders of the league are undoubtedly the strongest squad in the league in terms of quality of players and would definitely fight for the title till the end of the season so it'll take continuous consistency from Bayer Leverkusen to maintain their place at the top of the league.

One of the wrong things Alex Faguson will do is not to support any coach that is handling Manchester United. Even if he doesn't support that particular coach with his mind, he will not go public about it. Going public to say his dissatisfaction about any coach will drop the confidence of that coach because Sir Alex is an icon of Manchester United. If he doesn't endorse a particular coach, it means Manchester United doesn't endorse the coach.


Manchester United had all it takes to be in a good form
Firstly, they were supposed to re-enforce the team by making strategic signings and because they failed that is why injury dealt with them and as everyone can testify, Manchester United has the worse champions league outing in the recent time.

Firstly:
We have to understand that player like Mbappe is a big name and whenever media lacks something substantial to write about they will drag big names into the picture and make headlines with them. Other big names are

• Ronaldo
• Messi
• Bellingham
• Haaland
• Vinicius  

And many others. Currently the media has nothing to write about Ronaldo and Messi concerning transfer because they are out of Europe. Other supper stars are committed to their clubs, so it is only Kylian that they can write about.
  Secondly
If Real Madrid will be patient of not giving any offer to Mbappe till now, I do not think that waiting till he becomes a free agent will be a problem.

Whether we talk about Liuz Enrique or we talk about PSG, it is all the same story. When the club is not good, the coach cannot be said to be good. Take the case of Chelsea football club as a case study. Right from Graham Porter to Lampard and now to Pochetino, we cannot condemn Chelsea as a football club and exenorate the coach. When the club is good, the credit goes to the coach and when the otherwise happens, the blame goes heavily on the coach too.

We have seen PSG performance so many seasons in the champions league and we can agree that they have been excellent but yet they could not win the champions league. Therefore this season that we can say that they are performing below expectations, there's no magic that will make them win the champions league.

Paris Saint Germaine management has done everything within their power to lift the UEFA Champions League title but the closest they came was when they reached the 2020 final which they lost to Bayern Munich. They've signed a lot big players as well as high profile managers to achieve the that feat of becoming the European champions but despite all these actions, they're yet to lift club football's most prestigious trophy.

One thing that the management of PSG has failed to understand is that it takes a lot of consistent years of top football performances to achieve what they've been longing for. They're always signing big players and managers with the aim of getting quick positive result which hasn't even worked for them as a club. They were close to being eliminated from the group stages this season because of their poor performance but I think they're gonna improve with their performance in the knockout stages of the competition or face early exit from the knockout stages.

This one of the reasons why the gambling thread is always discussing issues concerning gambling while educating many people about gambling. Sometime ago, someone introduced a topic on "gambling responsibly" which many people contributed their respective opinions about gambling responsibly and how a gambler should not exceed his gambling limit. I've always said this on this thread that if a gambler can't gamble responsibly or can not control his emotions after losing money in gambling, it's absolutely unwise for such person to even engage in gambling activities in the first place because he's very unlikely to manage his emotional feelings when he loses big.

According to the news I heard about the incident of the guy that committed suicide after losing a lot of money in gambling, more than 50% of the total amount of money he lost in gambling that made him took his own life was borrowed and it was borrowed after he went bankrupt by losing all his money to gambling and in his quest to get back the already lost money, he decided to borrow money to gamble more with the hope that he's gonna win big at the end of the day but unfortunately for him, he lost all to gambling and became depressed immediately. He couldn't manage his emotions about his huge loss abd decided to take his own life.

May his soul rest in peace and I wish others will learn from his experience.

Gambling is one game that can be won by either the rich or the poor and that's because of the fact that both rich and the poor can be lucky on their own days. There's a popular saying that gambling is a game of luck and anyone can be lucky but one thing we can shy away from is the fact that the rich is more likely to win in gambling than the poor because of their gambling strategies. For instance, if a rich man wants to gamble, he picks the biggest odds that gives him more winning probability and stakes a huge amount of money in them while when a poor man wants to gamble, he picks the smallest odds that offers him little winning probability and stakes on them while hoping for a miracle to happen for him to win.

Being successful in gambling is absolutely different from winning in gambling because for you to be successful in gambling, it'll take you a lot of winnings and that's why it's very rare to see people who say they became successful through gambling because getting more wins than losses in gambling is actually a very difficult task that needs more luck than strategy and experience to achieve.

Following the defeat at Chelsea, Tottenham went four English Premier League matches without a win before their last weekend game against Newcastle which they convincingly defeated the Magpies. Their performance in the game against Newcastle was one of their best performances this season in the league and I think it'll go a long way to boost the team's morale and confidence as they continue to fight for a return to the top of the premier league standings. They face Nottingham Forest this weekend and if they can replicate their performance against Newcastle when they visit Nottingham Forest this weekend, I don't think the hosts will be able to stop Tottenham Hotspur from taking all three points from that game.

Tottenham Hotspur's manager Ange Postecoglou won the the English Premier League manager of the month for the first three months of the season because of their very impressive performance in the first three months of the season and I'm sure he'll definitely want to see his team return back to consistency once again which another league win at Nottingham Forest will be a good step to do that.