All in all a fairly average week on the prediction front last weekend. Even though I got five from eight correct it only equated to a 50 pence profit for the week because of the odds. This has reduced my overall deficit to £9 but that is nothing to write home about either.
Until the last minute of the Ireland v Australia game it looked like a clean sweep on the rugby following the Australia thrashing of England in the league four nations final and England's union teams less than impressive victory over Argentina. Brian O'Driscoll showed yet again why he is possibly the best player in the world currently with his last minute try that combined with the simple conversion led to the ending of Australia's hopes for a clean sweep of wins against the home nations.
In the football world cup play-offs I had three out of four successes with only France's win in Ireland not having been forecast - and plenty has been said about the second leg of this tie so probably doesn't need my input. BUT yet again there has been a travesty of justice that with modern technology needn't have happened and as well as Russia it is possible that France would not have been in South Africa next summer either. Of course FIFA won't be complaining because it is the result they wanted, especially after they introduced seeding to the play-offs in the first place.
Finally, in the tennis I was completely erroneous in my prediction of Nadal to win the Paris Masters as his semi-final conqueror, Novak Djokovic, went on to triumph in the final.
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