The blog Gambling and Other Wholesome Interests , which is where the GOWI of clubgowi came from and where everything was started way back in 2006, was eight years old yesterday, that is ancient in blog years and it has been officially retired from today. It is worth one final look for old times sake and there are some stats there you might find of interest
I will be back later in the day with a look at tonight's football.
Good Luck.
Tours are only two points off third place and with home games against Creteil and Auxerre up next, with fancy their chances of a big promotion push, especially if they can avoid defeat today. Two things about that, I do not think it will be so easy now that Laval are on a roll and if there is a team unsuited to playing for a point in Ligue 2, it would be the visitors.
Everton ( see previous post) won comfortably last night and we are having a very good month with free to view content, both on the website and the "old" GOWI blog, where everything started, eight years ago on Monday.
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is still suspended and banned from St James' Park this evening, which means no assistance from him against visitors Everton. Despite a respectable 8th place in the English Premier League for Newcastle United, 2014 has not gone well.
We have opposed Chamois Niortais FC in a couple of Ligue 2 road games recently, most notably at Nimes, when they suffered a heavy defeat. Three points today at Stade René Gaillard would be hugely valuable, taking them not just above Angers, but up into 3rd.
Just three home wins for Eintracht Frankfurt this season at the Commerzbank-Arena, way below the Bundesliga average of 44.39%, indicate where they have fallen short, they had seven at the same stage last season. Today they entertain a SC Freiburg side who have had an even greater fall from grace, 5th last season, they are now in the bottom two and desperate for points.
I wrote in the results update on Wednesday, that " it "feels" like we are about to go on another strong run". That hasn't happened yet, but we had a small profit on the Europa League games yesterday and took an outright position and already have wonderful value with that. The vibe is very good going into the weekend and we have six newsletters scheduled over the next three days, which will cost long term subscribers about 8 euros.
Normally I would be loathe to bet a team giving up a big handicap start in a match they did not need to win. However, like in the first leg and as we saw from Atletico last night, PSG are a team looking to establish themselves at the very highest level and every performance is the chance to improve,learn something and perhaps more importantly, throw down a marker to the more established major European clubs. PSG have an eight point lead at the top of Ligue 1 and will be able to coast to the title there and I do not think they will be overly concerned about the upcoming domestic fixture.
The results page has been updated to March 10th, the graph has plateaued out for 2014 after a good January, poorish Februrary ( although there was plenty of money to be won with non official suggestions last month) and it "feels" like we are about to go on another strong run. I tend to have a good instinct for predicting major upturns, so remember, I told you so !
Good Luck.
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In addition to our main "Winter" staples of England, Italy, Spain and France, J-league started last week and MLS football saw the first round of games this last weekend, so we have six of our main seven leagues in action at the same time. When Brazil gets underway next month, all seven and alert followers will know that we had an incredible run right through September, October and November last year when the Magnificent Seven were all "in play" together.