Last season Bohemians 1905 got relegated and Cardiff City reached the FA Cup final. This season, both armed with season tickets, we, Jonas (Cardiff) and William, plan to chronicle our experiences attending the games of the respective clubs.

For Cardiff, it is particularly emotional as this is their last season at Ninian Park, a ground they have lived at since 1910. For Bohemians the pressure is greater as their fans expect an immediate return to the top flight.

Our hopes for the season include lots of flowing football, some cracking goals, a promotion-a-piece, the odd fit streaker (female) and, ultimately, a pre-season friendly between the two clubs in the summer of 2009 (preferably over two legs and involving some kind of trophy named in our honour.)

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Art attack

I chatted to Jonas earlier tonight. He is understandably delighted as Cardiff snatched a 2-1 win in the 90th minute. I look forward to his in-depth thoughts on the game.

Meanwhile, another thing Jonas and I are both keen on is gambling on football so I am going to discuss my successes and short-comings in that particular art and I hope he will too.

I am a big fan of big bets - by which I mean accumulators and the like, not whacking down my entire week's wages or anything. Today in the Championship I got six right in an 11-game accumulator that had it come off would have netted me five grand (might as well be ten or none as six I know, but I was over half way which will do on opening day which is always notoriously difficult to predict) and using the same 11 predictions I also put on a doubles bet. A total of 55 lines, at 5p each (total stake £2.75) and getting six games meant I got 15 lines right and profited by the princely sum of £1.10 and my stake back. Three of those six I got right all came with goals in the last minute (Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol City) which is usually the point in the game when something happens I didn't want to happen.

I was also delighted to discover the website I use for online betting offers the Gambrinus Liga this season. So, tomorrow I have another accumulator on the six Gambrinus games (starting at 10.15am with Viktoria Zizkov v Teplice, a game I hope to attend if I can drag my weary arse out of bed at that time of a Sunday morning) and also a trebles bet.

Meanwhile, tonight, I designed the masthead on this blog. Isn't it pretty? I know Jonas is gonna love it when he wakes up and logs on tomorrow. I just wish my Photoshop skills were enough that I could make the Bohemians bit green-and-white-striped instead of just green. I did fanny about with it for about 45 mins, trying to merge layers and rasterize text and shit but got stumped. Like the picture I promised in my first post, at some point, it will get done.

Finally, a sweepstake for any readers we may have already picked up. How many posts will it take Jonas or myself to inadvertantly refer to the other one by their real name...?
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