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Evening All,

Had to leave the home at halftime of the England game and only just returned. It was quite a nervy 2nd half as I listened to it on the radio even though England scored as couldn't even have greened up. Just grateful that they scraped a win.

Checking out the Scots now.

Is is just me or do Italy looks disinterested and pretty ordinary going forward

still keeping the powder dry

Can't believe Vieri missed that sitter. italy win looking unlikely at the mo. Greened up again and will wait to see how it pans out.

Bugger, moved too soon!!

Kids are home from a day out so greened up and closing out now or I'll get it in the neck from the missus. 93 whatever happens.

I have just been playing the book that it is, no great insight.

Just gone green on the Scotland game having got myself out of a sticky situation when scalping on the Scots. That'll teach me not to scalp on the underdogs!

Any excellent days work on the cricket, footy and horses! I think I'll take next week off!

For those interested in the tennis check out Blake v Nadal. Blake took the 1st set and Nadal has just levelled up. This could well be a good one to scalp on the Nadal side.

Thought Italy would have pulled it off, but still made a profit overall, so happy(ish)!

Just nipped in on Turkey vs Denmark, will now call it a day.

greed cost me in the italy game was looking for 1.5 lay on scotland to balance the book got close 1.54 cost me from being an excellent day .

See theyve finally settled the highest temp market this morning :-)

That delayed settlement irritated me and IMHO didn't do Betfair any favours.

For myself (and probably a few others who are equally daft) although I still had some funds on account I was not inclined to trade AT ALL when the majority of my account was tied up. Such was the free-money situation on this event that I had committed over 75% of my account.

To Mrs C's approval, I worked in the garden and earned some brownie points yesterday. Had my account been available to trade I'd probably have joined in the fun on the footie.

I did email Betfair asking why, when so far as I could see, the necessary information was in the public domain, they couldn't either settle the market or post a brief explanation on the forum BB. I got this reply:-
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Thank you for your e-mail.
I apologize for the delay when settling for, once the official result
has been verified we settle the market as soon as possible.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further
enquiries.

Kind regards

Sharon Reid

Betfair helpdesk
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Can you spot the evidence that this is a standard response? They were not even bothered to make reference to which market was in question. Now I don't doubt that they get deluged with email but they could head a fair proportion of it off if they made pertinent postings on their own forum.

Rant over :-)

not involed in the icvcameroon game ,swings all the way anyone trading will be quids in

I know I and several others pestered them to settle. It was very annoying but not entirely unexpected, as you say did themselves no favours. No trading today out in the garden giving it a long overdue makeover. Strange things going on in it, some shrubs have started to flower again!

Easy money from Brazil tonight - 2-0 up after 20 minutes

Make that 3-0 after 28 minutes - this lot are awesome and that is without Ronaldinho tonight

4-0 after 30 minutes - anyone who thinks England have a chance of winning the world cup - or anyone else for that matter - may need to think again

I would normally switch to the other markets now, but the liquidity is poor. Have opened a small position on total goals and next goal market.

Out of interest does anyone know how far the odds on Wales fell yesterday before the goal ?

Haven't seen the goal but read on teletext it was a deflection ... lucky sods :-)

I backed Brazil just before they scored the second , had a cup of coffee and it was all over !