Champions League woes

Firstly, I'm not a Man Utd fan, but having seen them play [on TV] quite a few times this season they've been the outstanding team of the year so far in my opinion.

Unfortunately, just when they needed to perform at a crucial stage, they were shockingly inept and have now crashed out of the Champions League Semi-Final with a 3-0 defeat away to AC Milan. Having watched the dross of Liverpool v Chelsea from last night (I thought the first leg was bad, but jeez, these two teams are dire) I was convinced that Man Utd would get to the final and give Liverpool a good spanking but it now looks like it Milan will that get that honour.

Somehow I can't see Liverpool coming back from 3-0 down again which is going to be my predicted scoreline. You can currently get 4/5 (bet365, Paddy Power, SkyBet) for AC Milan to win the champs league and much as I'd like an English team to win it, I just can't see it happening now.

I hate the lottery

Not won a thing AGAIN tonight and I can't remember the last time I had anything back :( Being bored I decided to work out how much this is costing me.

I've had 5 lines every wednesday and saturday for the last 12 years and what have I won.... about 3 tenners a year and 4 numbers twice which paid out around £40 each.

so, (12 * £30) + (2 * £40) = about £440 I've won in total.

Considering that it's cost me (12 [years] * 52 [weeks] * (2 [draws] * 5 [lines]) = £6240 then I'm down by £5800.


£5800 !!!


And of course that's only going to increase further as I know my numbers off by heart and you just know that the day I don't put them numbers on it will be the day they come out. What would you do if that happened? Let's hope we never find out. :o

In the meantime, I'll just keep donating to Camelot in the 14 million to 1 chance that one day my numbers might just be drawn!

Let's get it started...

One of the things I've decided to do this year is to learn to play the guitar. As a christmas present, my wife brought me a nice black acoustic guitar to learn on. It's nothing fancy and didn't cost much (probably because she thought I'd be bored of it after a week, I'll show her!!!) but it's good enough to practice on. She also bought me Guitar for Dummies which I'm going to work my way through. I'll keep you posted how I get on as I go along!

So, here I go... into the IUnknown!

My first step into the world of blogging! I'll probably spend more time customizing the site to get it to [hopefully] look nice than I will writing anything down, but hey ho, that's me.