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Saturday, Jan 20, 2007 - 21:03 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

The Rather Big Match

That's Liverpool vs Chelski! May be catching it later - as my cousin said, "I don't usually watch Pool or Chelsea matches, but both of them together...". Liverpool do have a good home record. Go Reds! :P

($146.50+$1601.45 = $1747.95/$1900)

$10 on Liverpool to beat Chelski (at 2.50) - Great!
$15 on Liverpool to draw Chelski (3.05) - Okay.
$10 on Reading to beat Sheffield United (1.67) - It's not which club
$10 on Newcastle to beat West Ham (1.75) - you are, but which club
$10 on Portsmouth (-1.5) vs Charlton (2.30) - you're up against

I'm still feeling for the schoolboys (literally, they were Uni students) of Laos, who were put to the sword by Singapore 11 to nothing a few days ago. The unashamedly pro-Singapore commentator seriously rubbed it in ("what a humiliation!") though it was more a matter of Laos being poor than Singapore showing any exceptional quality. One couldn't accuse them of schoolboy defending, for one. It was worse than that. Alam Shah had a field day, though all he had to do was hit the target. Can't fault his finishing, and he had a scissors kick that went in off the crossbar to round off his seven goals. What Rooney would give for that!

They were rather poorer against Indonesia and were simply clearing the ball out in the final twenty minutes, which doesn't bode well for the semi-finals against Malaysia. 2-2 was enough, and Indonesia went out because they hadn't slaughtered Laos enough in their match (they only won 3-1), while Vietnam had the good fortune of playing Laos last and knew exactly what they had to do - win by three or more. They won by nine. That cost Indonesia manager Peter Withe his job.

On a completely unrelated tangent, I think I've found my first textbook error for the semester! On page 555 of Hal R. Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics, it sez "... If head comes up you get $14 and if tails comes up you lose $10. This bet has an expected value of $12..."

Looks like $2 to me. Is that right?



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