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I hope you've cancelled that call for the emergency services

Proper mess made of it tonight. Somehow started playing the 2.5 collapse just before France scored. Not content with one hit I did the same again and spent the rest of the match digging myself out of a very red hole.

Can't complain. Before this match my pot was up 90% from 9 June so it was time to give a little back and for the the ego to get punctured :-)

It wouldn't have made much difference to my performance but I found the latency rather high tonight. It seemed to take a lot longer than usual to get a bet placed. Any one else?

BOLLARDS.

Been trying to back mexico at 14s, got within a nats of it bieng matched then mexico scored!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Possible first real shock of the WC? Mexico playing really well, although would expect Argentina to push on in the second half. Heinze should have gone, clear red card, ruined what was an extremely accomplished first half performance by the referee.

only saw the last 5 mins Heinze a very lucky boy - cert Red and a shocking decision benefitting the game favs

I'd win a stupid amount if Mexico go on to win the world cup. You can imagine how much I shouted when their first goal went in!

id settle for them winning here tonite scrip ;-)

wat like 67p scrip? ;)

a profitable 90 mins, now a bonus 30 mins ;-)

what a stunning goal

Yep, it certainly was. Shame though, I was rather hoping Mexico could pull it off

Backed Italy heavily and then some more..then the red card.

Layed it al off now so stand to lose a fortune if Italy win and all square if they wont.

The draw = full time and not the final result after extra time?

Incredible.

Ouch, sorry to hear that.

Cheating diving Iti cost me a few quid too :-(

PS congrats on 10000 posts on the thread!!!

diving my arse !!! definate penalty , beautifully put away.

lol Bos, you keep lurking with those patriotic blinkers on ;-)

Mr Euro

Italy 1 - Australia 0 (Italy scored with a penalty in the last minute of extra time)

"...Layed it al off now so stand to lose a fortune if Italy win ..."

Ouch, too! I'm truly sorry about that for you.

Scrip, can't you help this guy on a 'one to one' or something? Take a 5k fee off him and let him spend a full day with you? Something like that?

(Actually, I do believe 5k wouldn't be enough and it would actually cost you money - but 'Hey! This guy needs serious help before he ##### up completely!)

fundie, he made the most of it, yes, but if a defender is going to lie down infront of someone who is running in the penalty area then he is asking for trouble.

Should have done another "bakko" and lumped on Italy, lol

Got shafted by Italian diver here as well. Gave back all the profit built up during the game and some more.

Switz/Ukraine was a good trading match though. Scalping the time decay markets throughout proving to be a steady earner. It got better in Extra Time as the draw odds seemed to start very high at 1.76 and thus collapsed very quickly. Seeing the fear of losing undermining both teams chances of scoring made this relatively easy money.