Last-gasp United goal proves costly

I have written before about how my pessimism for my beloved football has proved costly before, no more so than when Man Utd won the Champions League back in May.

I have clearly not learned any lessons from that experience, as with Sunderland holding United nil-nil after 85 minutes I thought I was on to a winner backing the game to finish a draw. With the odds on a draw rapidly dropping I followed up my first bet with a lay bet, thus locking in a £2.80 profit if the game were to finish a draw with nothing to lose if either team were to grab a last minute winner.

However greed got the better of me and I again put £10 on the result being a draw hoping to lock in a bigger profit as the odds continued to slide towards the full time whistle. But before I could make the lay bet on the draw, Vidic grabbed an injury time winner and my £10 evaporated as quickly as Sunderland’s hopes of winning a precious point at Old Trafford.