It’s taken 7 weeks of games to come home, but come home it did.  Courtesy of Taylor-Fletcher and a 0-1 away win for Blackpool at Birmingham, the Championship Fund was boosted by 35%.  The odds were 9.6 and the Fund wagered just over 4% after calculating the odds offered 82% value.  Along with other winning bets this weekend the Championship Fund has moved into a positive position overall.  We’ll see over the coming weeks whether it’s a case of one leap forward followed by many small steps back.  It would be nice to stay above water before the next big win comes in.

By contrast the Premier League Fund fell back this weekend mainly due to losses on Liverpool and Pompey.  It does however remain ahead for the month of September.  The portfolio theory of running more than one fund is working well with any significant moves in one fund being offset by the other.  With just one week of games left in September i’m hoping the Trading Fund will break through the hurdle of 200% gains.

After the poor showing in the last week of August I was pleased to see September get off to a great start.  The Premier Fund recorded a gain of 16.5%, the Championship fund contributed a gain of just over 6% and the Trading Fund made hay with a gain of just under 24%.

A large part of the gains from last weekend came from Liverpool burying Man Utd at home.  Depsite what Andy Gray might have been looking at I thought Liverpool were the better team throughout the whole match.  They may have fallen to an early goal but apart from that lapse which came in the first few minutes Liverpool were very controlled.  I think the Reds are a great bet for the title if you want to see any decent return on your money. Continued

It’s been 2 weeks since the last set of games and August was not a great month performance wise.  The tips for the Premier League only just scraped a positive return of 2.84%.  The Championship and Trading Fund did even worse with -23% and -31% respectively.  It wasn’t great timing to double the stakes in the Trading Fund and only goes to confirm the idiocy of chasing gains.

2 weeks in the Premier League has once again seen an amazing amount of news.  Keegan leaves Newcastle and is then reported as having a meeting with Ashley just 8 days after resigning.  Man City get new owners which make Chelsea’s stars look like street beggars.  West Ham appoint Zola as a new manager and next day lose their shirt sponsor as XL Holidays go bust.  Continued