I have what I think were amongst my top 5 worst betting days ever over Friday and Saturday, the top two worst days will never be troubled, they are like Real and Barce were in La Liga a few years back, so far out on their own, the rest were only playing for third spot. Well, the last couple of days have made a big run at that bronze medal !

As always when this, or something similar happens, I scale things down for a few days, fewer bets and lower stakes and try to ride it out with as little further damage as possible, until things improve.

Italy Serie A: Milan-Lazio

It's déjà vu all over again in Italy and as you were at the top of the table with opening day wins for last season's top two Juventus and Roma yesterday and the pack are playing catch up from the get go.

Gamba Osaka (see previous post) won 3-0 this morning and virtually everthing was correct in the Catania-Roma preview before that (link), with the headline selection a winner at odds of 4.0 inside 35 minutes !

I should really be urging you to sign up to the clubgowi newsletter service, but if you have read those two previews ( and subscribers get 30 of them every week), you will surely be able to work that out for yourself !

Parma ended their mini blip with a 1-0 win over Napoli last weekend, but it was a fortunate win in my opinion and on another day, a match they could have lost comfortably. Ahead of the fixture I wrote:

Relegation "six pointer", the visitors are four points from safety and a further one behind Bologna and will surely be looking for maximum points today. They have won just once in 14 starts, that was an amazing 4-3 defeat of Milan in a match that without (too much) exaggeration could/should have been 4-9 and arrive today without two suspended players in much admired striker/right winger Domenico Berardi (21 appearances-12 goals -6 assists) and fellow front man Simone Zaza (23-5-0).