No strange results in this week’s games after all; worth noting after all the hype that comes at this time of year. Birmingham nearly caused an upset - but didn’t. Although Fulham did win away at Man City, this result in itself is not too surprising given the recent form of both teams. Good luck to Sven as he looks like he’ll be moving again at the end of the season.

As for this week’s performance, there was a rare divergence in the performance of the Funds with the Aggressive and Balanced Funds seeing gains whilst the Trading Fund lost out. I’m surprised the Trading Fund didn’t lose more than 3.5% as it only managed 4 out of 10 winning match bets.

The Balanced Fund showed it’s worth again with 9 out of 10 winning match bets (Derby failed to beat Arsenal!), a gain on the week of 6.56% and a yield to date of 12.46%. That yield really does impress when compared to the Trading Fund yield, started at the same time, which is at just 6.87%. Given the outperformance of the Trading Fund in terms of absolute returns a lower yield indicates larger bets and hence higer risk. The Balanced Fund however is able to earn stable income week to week by better pricing the odds.

Weekly movement in Aggressive Fund: +4.53%

Days ahead/(behind) target (began 29/9/07): -101 days

Weekly movement in Balanced Fund:+6.56%

Days ahead/(behind) target (began 23/2/08): +33 days

Weekly movement in Trading Fund: -3.50%

Days ahead/(behind) target (began 23/2/08): +159 days