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I don't really know what to say. https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/17/doncaster-woman-paragliders-hamas-israel-palestine-19674545/?ico=mosaic_home

WEEK 11 - FISH PIES ALL ROUND It appears my spreadsheet is corrupted. Why is there a load of green everywhere? Week 11 becomes the best week we have had as a forum by quite a distance. We owe this largely however to the bet of @Pyfish who lands a league best profit of £77.50 with his extremely impressive double. He was made to sweat by Northern Ireland and San Marino after the hosts rushed into an early 2-0 lead, but the game largely petered out and they only added a 3rd at the death. Lincoln suffered a rare home loss to an improving Burton meaning he lands the juicy win, and meaning he will be in profit for another 4 weeks at absolute worst regardless. @Machado is the subject in early week 12 controversy, and I have decided as a one-off as it may not have been clear that he can take his pick again as the week works from Tuesday to Monday on this, and he picked another game from the time period of week 11. I do it from Tuesday to Monday because of Monday night football games which are usually from the weekend before, and to me Monday to Tuesday does mark the new week. We'll call it a lucky escape. Luckily though for week 11 he claimed his 4th win in 6 picks, delving into the depths of the Turkish Cup to go against an out of sorts Denizlispor and go for a dour game between two teams who produce very little. A word on @CaaC (John) though. Bloody hell. He was extremely unlucky this week and as I'd previously stated, if he'd landed a winner this week he would've finished the season, at absolute worst, assuming he lost every other remaining week - £260ish up. Turkey was a big pick and in-fact, the best single priced winner chosen all season. Scotland, we all saw what happened, extremely unlucky to not take the lead in the second half and ended up losing the game 2-0. It's unfortunately a loss this week though, and he drops in the table along with 4 others. @RandoEFC lands another winner on the handicaps. Poland making trickier work of it with their 0-2 win in the Faroe Islands, but Portugal absolutely obliterated an abject Bosnia and the game was 0-5 by half time. This puts him above @Stan who loses for a fifth straight week and down to his worst overall position of the season. I think you have to sympathise again here, as of his six legs of the double, five of them won at an absolute canter, he was just let down by the lack of cards in Swindon's win over Newport. Pretty unlucky again for me. @Lucas drops into the extremely low reaches of the English game, but Warrington Rylands cost him what would've been a solid win that put him back near to breakeven. It's eleven, it's heaven. For the fucking bookies. I mean to be honest I'm not particularly angry this week, I think my logic was correct and I am a firm believer that with correctly applied logic, wins will find you. It was a pretty long shot and it came extremely close. I think under 4.5 goals is a bit of a hack. Under 4.5 goals was 8/11 as a single, yet combined with the almost certain outcome of a Northern Ireland win it boosted it pretty handily. Luxembourg's performance in Iceland wasn't brilliant, the first half was abject but they equalised immediately after half time. I think the sickening aspect here is that they missed an open goal in the 93rd minute. Such is the way for me this season. Something will land soon. I've had a pretty productive last three days on actual bets so I think it has to really. It's our best week of the season though, largely because of Pyfish, but good choices from most people and even the losers came extremely close. Back to a proper week of the calendar for the upcoming week. Probably a delayed table from me though as I'm landing back from Norway late on Monday night. Going to watch Lillestrom v Valerenga - might even have to include something from that game on this. WEEK 11 STATS Winning bets: 3/7 (42.9%) Winning selections: 10/14 (71.43%) Weekly forum position: +£61.24 (ranked 1st out of 11) OVERALL STATS Winning bets: 18/78 (23%) Winning selections: 67/149 (44.97%) Total forum position: -£230.64

Life Update: As of last month, I now own a place, fully paid for, in Bangalore. It's a 3BHK but with the way real estate is skyrocketing in the city it felt like the right time to get a place considering this place is literally going to be hard to get a place to rent in the next 5 years for folks working here. I will say this, I wish I had done this five years ago versus now but having poured money into a house at home it didn't seem feasible. The house itself came up to 250K USD and judging by the market and how places are going for even more now (upwards of approx. 600K) if you want to live anywhere near the city it seemed like a steal.

A rocket coming from the Gaza side of the border failing and crashing down? Israel's committing enough war crimes on it's own to where if even Al Jazeera, which is not exactly unbiased in the conflict, is agreeing that this hospital was struck by a failed rocket... it probably was the case. Hamas rockets failing and killing Palestinians isn't really anything new. It's not exactly state of the art rocket technology they're using. It's not like Hamas killing more Palestinians somehow absolves Israel of bombing a school or bombing areas they've told people to evacuate to. Those are pretty clearly war crimes, I don't think we need to have more fabricated to make the case that the IDF's committing war crimes. Hamas is also very clearly capable of killing Palestinians as well.

@Dr. Gonzo I mean within about a minute you should realise its not for kids, and definitely within two

I’m glad United won’t be owned be a sports washing state backed puppet that never actually had 2 pennies to rub together and promised the twitterati everything they wanted to gain favour. Call me cynical though.

A ban in Italy would have no bearing in England unless it was a ban applied by UEFA or FIFA.

I like how @CaaC (John) thinks the 'bald' isn't enough so now has to code in a 'win'

I should change my name to Viva St Pauli.