One of the great things about spread betting is that you don't have to have a view about the result or the quality of the game in order to have an exciting bet. Take the Cup Final for example, a dreadful game where it was difficult to make money but one client found a way. He had a dabble on one of our specials called 'The Joy of Secs' and bought £5 at 160 (longest stretch, in seconds, of the match without a stoppage). No worrying about who scores or lifts the trophy with this bet as Chelsea and United managed to keep the ball in going for 240 seconds during yet another dull passage of play. The punter didn't care though scooping a £400 profit, almost enough to buy a programme at the new Wembley!

What a finish to the season in Spain! If you haven't heard about it then listen, as Real, Barcelona, Sevilla and Valencia are fighting it out for the title and it could go down to the wire. Barcelona tore apart Atletico Madrid last weekend and one client made off with a sackful of cash after buying Barcelona's Team Goal Minutes at 63 for £20. The Catalan giants simply blew away Atletico at the Vicente Calderỏn winning 6-0 with the goals being scored at the business end of the match to give the market a final make-up of 357. This netted the client a fabulous £5,880 - who said that the Premiership is the best league in the world?

 

Now for one of those losing trades that went from bad to worse in a heartbeat. On Wednesday night one client suffered about as much agony as some of the Liverpool fans stuck at John Lennon Airport. He sold the time of the winning goal at 35 for £5 (the time of the goal that wins the game) in the Champions League Final. With Milan 2-0 up with eight minutes to go the punter was only looking at losing ten times his stake (because the winning goal would be Inzaghi's first after 45 mins) until Lewis Moody, sorry Dirk Kuyt, popped up to score an 89th minute consolation goal for The Reds which meant the winning goal was now Inzaghi's second in the 82nd minute and the client experienced a 47 point swing which saw him lose £235.

You remember last week's good trade with the punter who won big by getting with Leicester? Well unfortunately he falls into the other category this week after getting with them once again. The client bought Leicester's Multi-Points at 210 for £3 in the all-English affair that was the Heineken Cup Final. To most people's surprise Wasps out-thought and out-muscled the treble chasing Tigers to limit them to only 9 points in the first half and zilch in the second half. This was not good for the punter's bet which requires points to be scored in the both halves in order to avoid losing one's bananas. But Fyffes were lost as the market made up a doughnut, meaning the client lost £630.