Going for a team that has spent most of the recent past on the blacklist, so with more than a touch of trepidation.

65. Atletico Madrid to beat Austria Vienna £215.62 at 1.05


24' in and Atletico are up 1-0. The fact they're virtually already qualified and maybe don't NEED to win, well, it means nothing to me. It's Vienna. They should give them a sound beating.

4-0 FT.

Not going to be around tomorrow as I'm off to see the Sterophonics in Glasgow, no idea what time I'll be back on Friday, so may not have a bet - all a bit up in the air.

My bet tomorrow:

66. Lay Sheriff Tiraspol v Tottenham at 32 - liability £224.44


Quite a bit shorter than normal, works out at around 1.032, but my running average is still currently above 1.05, so I'm happy to take low odds on something I have no intention of paying much attention to. There's surely no way Spurs will lose at home to a Moldovan team they cruised to victory against a couple of weeks ago, even if they play Adebayor and the tea-lady at centre-back.

Just the one bet yesterday, discipline got the better of me yesterday evening. Not gambling discipline, but the discipline that is imposed on me at Milla Towers - I'm not far enough along in the run to make it worth arguing with the ball and chain about. Think it's probably wise not to feel the need to push things along though.

Anyway:

68. Lay Real Betis HT/FT at 24 v Barcelona - liability £241.27


No real analysis needed here I think, Betis are struggling, Barca aren't.

The NFL plan fell through as I fell asleep when the game was still relatively close. Did wake up in time for the Hoobs playing a game of cricket, but BF didn't have a market open.

So, off to Romania, which should be fun.


69. Gaz Metan Medias to beat Concordia Chiajna £249.78 at 1.07


C. 20m in, Gaz Metan 1-0 up, Chiajna down to 10 men. Chiajna look to be pretty rotten away, losing their last three and Gaz have won their last three home games. The extra man should be enough to avoid an upset here.

your doing well here Milla keep it going mate

Short format darts, living on the edge for this one.

70. Phil Taylor to beat Kevin Painter £263.91 at 1.04


Currently 2-0 Taylor in the race to 5. Taylor already qualified but has just taken out a 147-ish finish, so he's playing to win.
Just gone 3-0 now.

Placed tomorrow's bet now, since I'm busy most of tomorrow.

71. Lay New Zealand at 19 v Mexico - liability £272.52


The Mehicans had a particularly bad qualifying campaign, especially losing to Honduras (which won me a few quid) and drawing with Jamaica at home (which cost me considerably more than a few quid) and half of Mexico seems to have had a shot at managing them through the campaign. Somehow they managed to sneak through to this play-off with the Kiwis.

I looked up the NZ squad on Soccerway and it seems that most of their players play in the A-League, which seems to be the latest fashionable place for footballers to end their careers, hardly an elite league. Any team that has Rory Fallon in their national squad, one of those unique types who loses about 2 feet when he jumps for a header, can't be up to much - when he played for us last season my son genuinely thought his first name was "Fuccksake".

Enough Fallon-bashing, Mexico won't lose to an Oceanic team in front of over 100k people - and if they are down in the last few minutes, hopefully there'll be a riot or something

Having said all that, I'm nowhere near brave enough to back Mexico at 1.22 though.

What a fookin goal that was! Nice1

Any time turned out to be in the 88th minute. 2-0 FT, never in doubt

I'm off for a stiff drink and a packet of cigarettes.

Onwards

1-1 in the 56th minute.

I've spent most of the last half hour muttering "Backing a goal? You ****g mug" or words to that effect, so a bit of a relief, even though it was never in doubt really.

Stuff to do tomorrow, so off to check out the fixture list.

No worries on getting matched in the Nigeria match, looked pleasingly routine.

Million and one things to do this weekend, but finally grabbed time for Sunday's bet.

74. New York Giants to beat Green Bay £325.32 at 1.07


Placed at 20-6 NY at the end of the 4th. Since then GB have scored a TD after doing very little all game, down to their third choice QB and haven't looked very good at all the last couple of weeks, while the Giants have won their last three.

76. Spain U21 to beat Albania U21


20 mins to go and the Dagos are up 1-0.

Final score 2-0 Spain.

Mini-target reached after that, however since it's my birthday tomorrow (on international day, cheers mum ) that presents a different kind of logistical challenge to getting a bet on, hopefully Argentina v Bosnia at 1am or the NFL present opportunities before I go to bed tonight. It's either that or the afternoon Asian internationals while the wife is at work.

First world problems and all that

Cheers Sherrie, hopefully this goes on a bit longer, although I can guarantee my bottle will have gone well before the £55k mark

Goals at the wrong time in the Argie game meant I missed the chance for that, attempted to get on over 36 points in the NFL at 17-17 at 1.05, which would have been a guaranteed winner thanks to BF's overtime rules - unless it was a tie after OT of course, but only got £205 of the challenge bank matched before more points came along. That money will be going into the yacht fund.

Was tempted by the NBA, but I haven't been following the new season that closely - would rather leave it a few weeks before getting heavily involved in that. The game I was looking at, Warriors v Jazz, annoyingly looks like sailing in.

NFL staying close so it looks like Asian internationals tomorrow are the way I'll be going.

Wednesday's bet is a bit of a no-brainer.

78. Uruguay to beat Jordan £366.30 at 1.07


The tie is pretty much over, but if they can win 5-0 away then they surely should win at home against a team that have lost recent away games to the mighty Iraq, Oman, Syria and Bahrain - I watched Bahrain yesterday and they were ****g rotten.

Yemen had lost 17 straight, so was pretty confident. Was regretting it a bit in the second half, believe me

Started back on September 3rd with £10 on a UAE Cup game, seems like ages ago.

September 3rd is ages ago but well worth the discipline and nous that you have shown so far, great effort chief.

Christ, smallest in-play coupon I think I've ever seen on the footy!

Really well done on this so far though mate