The Championship kicks off today so it’s time for me to get properly started with this little experiment. The problem is until we get further into the season there’s not much I can do in terms of research before a game so things will start off slowly.

I’m watching the Birmingham v Sheff Utd game at the moment were I took a lay of Birmingham @ 2.04 before the game. The only other position I’ve taken so far is on my team Norwich away at Coventry. In the pre-season friendly’s the defence leaked quite a few goals (which often happens in friendly games anyway) but the new signings are not match fit and have only played a few games together. I have backed ‘any un-quoted’ on the correct score market @17.5 in case we get a 4-0 hammering!

I was messing about with some of the friendly games over the last couple of weeks and made a loss which was to be expected. I just wanted to have a little play around with some ideas and get used to the way the odds would move etc. I know I could have paper traded but I’m using minimum stakes and I don’t think there’s any substitute for the real thing. The psychology of trading/betting is as massive part of what kind of results you get and with paper trading you leave out this very important ingredient.

It’s going to be a long and slow (probably painful!) journey.