I got my season off to a nice start with a ?200 profit on the LA Galaxy game, but I had to risk a big loss in the process.

For the Feyenoord game I am going to be a lot more conservative, and I am just going for:

?20 on us to win 1-0 @ 11/2

?10 on us to win 2-0 @ 7/1

My mom says 2-1 but I'm actually going for 3-2. Don't know why though. Can't see us letting in that many goals. On the other hand we will probably be facing better strikers today than earlier in the pre season.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but having seen our other pre-season games and the fact that we were playing away and had just got back from the US and were probably a bit jet-lagged, I put a tenner on the draw at 21/10.

Nice double save, Carlo!

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but having seen our other pre-season games and the fact that we were playing away and had just got back from the US and were probably a bit jet-lagged, I put a tenner on the draw at 21/10.

Nice double save, Carlo!

Nice one Jack.

I thought about betting on the straight win (@ 10/11), but decided against it.

I think for first few monthes our defence would be a little shaky while Jose would be sorting all defenders especially on the right flank - our weakest spot, achilles heel if you want, which cost us a lot of points and especially conceeded goals.

I think we would score more than last year(we have reasons for that) but would conceed enough too.

So betting, 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 is not the best the thing to do.

Though I understand my role in this business here.

So betting, 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 is not the best the thing to do.

You may well be right sergyMS, but I am ever the optimist. Ferreira, JT, Carvalho, and Ashley should be very familiar playing together, and with cech behind them, and one from Makelele/Mikel/Essien/Diarra in front, I think we should still hope to see plenty of clean sheets.

But I agree, for pre-season, is not the time to be confident for a clean sheet.

Cheers, TT