And Nalbandian kicking the line judge! How bad luck would that have been!

Trevh I don't get it, ROT, yield, ROI all the same to me. As long as your winning

DFC a jockey taking the wrong course or a player giving away a silly penalty is bad performance or human error. Part & parcel of betting on sport. Luck can only come into betting if you are overstaking or betting with no proven edge IMO. It should all even out in the long run. Unfortunately in this day and age the human 'errors' might well be deliberate. I've watched many Mickey Mouse football matches where the players are deliberately missing (Argentina & Turkey immediately spring to mind).

I watched a dutch league game where the losing side had a last-gasp penalty for a consolition goal. I was on overs so needed him to score. He missed and his own team mates came up and patted him on the back, like relieved or something. What the fck? We know it goes on, we just hope to be on the right side the next time. I tried match reading IP, I thought "I know a lot about football - should be easy". Naaah, the ref kills you every time.