The Footy Trader

photo credit: Angie Torres

What a game and didn’t Spain really deserve to win it. They out played the Germans all over the field. Excellent defence, brilliant mid field and Fernando Torres took his chance this evening and got a second goal of the tournament. As I write this I can hear car horns being tooted in the town 5 km away. They have obviously run out of fireworks at this stage.

The camp site where I am working for the summer has about 3oo German youngsters staying, I think they will all be crying into their Bratwurst for a few days. At least they are enjoying the Spanish summer sun even if the football didn’t go the way they would have liked.

The Germans didn’t get too many chances on goal and Spain could have had more goals. It was a surprise that  the final score was only 1 – 0.

I didn’t even have any money on the game. I was too tired to set anything up even though many of the betting sites had extra offers for the duration of the tournament. Mind you they might have special offers for Wimbledon.

It is going to be a long old time between now and the start of the Premiership……..

For me the best player of the Spanish side was Senna. He really did a super job in the midfield.

I had Turkey as my choice for the Matched Bet in the game against the Czech team but the Turks pulled off an amazing turn around that left me with a pile of money in the Bookies that should have migrated over to Betafair.  At least the the Swiss game did the job for me so I have some money left in Betfair to work with.

I was just a bit miffed with the way it worked out and I will have to bring the money over to Betfair from the bookie all 330 Euro of it, bit by bit. AS I don’t have as much as I would like in Betfair at the moment for the lay bets.

The upshot of it all is that I will not see much of the 100 Euro that was the bonus by the time I have the money used up in matched bets or have to a point where I can withdraw the cash  from the bookie.

If I had BetAngel up and running I would have perhaps greened up by putting in a back bet towards the end of the game. I expect it could have got matched and I would have been quids in, but that is over and done now – no point in thinking of what might have been.

I had matched bets trades working on both of these games today and the plan all came together. Seeing as Spain is my team in the Championship too seeing as I live here in Spain and England is not in there.

I had a free tenner from Euro Bet and I used WInUnited for the other one. I actually got a free bet of 50 Euro at WinUnited – It was supposed to be 50% which would have been 30 Euro but I think they made a mistake. Didn’t matter to them in the end as I lost the bet there anyway. Which was in fact part of the plan. I had lay bets on at Betfair covering the back bets so, every one should be happy at the end of the day, WInUnited is €60 up from my deposit and I have a good percentage of the free money effectively cashed out via the lay bets at Betfair.

I will have to have a look to see what offers are available for tomorrows games and see if we can keep this thing going.