10,334 people packed themselves into the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham to watch the new look Crusaders roll around in the snow with the Leeds Rhinos. There had been much publicity about the fact that Brian Noble's side had been hurriedly assembled and spread betting punters were queuing round the block to buy Leeds Rhinos' supremacy before kick-off – not me though! I fancied the Crusaders to put up a fight and stepped in and sold the Champions' supremacy in-play for £15 at 27.

Unbelievably (I'm beginning to sound a bit like Chris 'Unbelievable Jeff' Kamara), the Crusaders opened the scoring and were very much part of the game when the sides were locked at 6-6. Sadly, they conceded five tries in the last quarter which turned a potentially decent profit into a £10 loss. The 34-6 final score line was a little flattering but a lot better than it could have been – I forgot until the commentary reminded me that the Rhinos had beaten the Crusaders 68-0 in Newport only five months ago! There's nothing like doing your research!

I watched the Morning Line on Channel 4 and was left feeling certain that Doncaster would be on and Cheltenham would be off. Nick Luck told everyone that things didn't look good at Prestbury Park and that the general feeling was one of pessimism. Well, within an hour, Doncaster had been abandoned and Cheltenham had been given the green light and I was in serious danger of missing the opener.

I'd love to be telling you that I bought SPs, but I didn't. Baccalaureate sprung a massive 100/1 surprise first up and beat Paul Nicholls' red-hot favourite Pistolet Noir (I reckon he'd have had to tip-toe quietly back into his box at Ditcheat that night as his trainer didn't look happy with him).

My first bet of the day was a £10 buy of Hey Big Spender on the index in the next at 18 (£320 profit), but the bad news was that my second bet of the day was in the same race and a £10 buy of Pigeon Island at 12 (who fell when booked for a place). Anyway, I cannot complain as I was still £200 up going into the third.

However, after two disappointing fixed-odds win bets on Private Be and Carruthers (both finished second), I decided to return to spread betting. If I had bought both on the spreads, I'd have won money. I should have sold Seven Is My Number as well… it wasn't even good enough to finish seventh!

My last crack of the day was a £10 buy of Katchit at 12 in the Cleeve Hurdle and a £10 sell of Lie Forrit at 26. Well, Lie Forrit was well beaten and eventually pulled up and there was a moment approaching the last when I thought Katchit was going to reel in Tidal Bay. Sadly, he could only muster third place, but still I made over £200 on the race.

I left Cheltenham and listened to Five Live and the start of the Chelsea game. I was desperate for a bet, but just couldn't work out what to do. All the headlines had been about John Terry and I half thought about buying his goal minutes at 6 for an interest. It was surely time for him to give his 'you know what' a rest and let his head or feet do the talking for a change!

Headline on the back of most newspapers… 'Terry scores away from home again'! So predictable! What was even more predictable was the fact that I didn't buy his goal minutes and missed out on what would have been around an £800 profit. I'm getting a bit bored of the story now and I'm not sure why this country is so interested in Terry… or more importantly, the exploits of Little Terry!

I travelled up to London to the Emirates Stadium to watch a poor excuse of an Arsenal team crumble at the hands of a very beatable United side that had no Vidic or Ferdinand. I also couldn't believe my eyes when Nani dazzled in a United shirt for the first time and lobbed our hopeless keeper for the opener. As the author of Arsenal fan site Arseblog put it… "For the first Nani, who thus far in his career has done little but look like a cast-off member of 5 Star, was made to look brilliant by Clichy and Nasri's tame effort to double team him".

By the time I was queuing for a half-time cuppa and some Maltesers, we were 2-0 down thanks to a Rooney wonder goal – he is beginning to look like the real deal! Or should that read the Real Madrid deal…

Anyway, all United fans reading this and annoyed by that last comment will be thrilled to hear that I bought £150 of Arsenal supremacy at 0, sold £8 of first Arsenal goal at 51 and bought £15 of Nasri goal minutes at 9. That's a lot of losses to add up – I think I'll ask Rooney to help me with the maths.

There are plenty of rumours circling that John Terry has lost the England captain's armband. I don't know why he doesn't just ask Wayne Bridge to check under his bed because that's an obvious place to look!

Back to the diary and I got back on the punting road to recovery by selling £100 of goals in the Sunderland v Stoke match at 2.3. The game ended goalless and I won back £230.

John Terry's playing away from home again… too easy. I decided to oppose Chelsea on their travels to Hull and sold their supremacy at 1.75 just after kick-off for £100. I also sold £100 of goals in the game at 2.9.

Hull took the lead on the half-hour mark and Drogba levelled things up just before the break. My supremacy bet was still looking alright, but I had major worry over my total goals position. I decided to ride the storm and pray for a goalless second half. I watched Holby City (really stressful and caused me far more anxiety than a dodgy spread bet) and flicked over to find the sides were still locked at 1-1 deep into the second half. The game finished that way and I managed to claw back another £265 – the Emirates nightmare was becoming a distant memory.

Tottenham take on Leeds in the Cup live on ITV and I'm convinced Spurs will run out comfortable winners. I have bought £100 of supremacy at 0.9 and £7 of shirt supremacy at 13. I have also bought £7 of Beckford's goal minutes at 18 as a hedge… he can score a consolation goal in the 90th minute to make it 5-1 Spurs!