Truly Glorious... And The Footy Season Is Upon Us Too!

Ah, Glorious Goodwood, dear reader. One of the great festivals in the racing calendars and one which, for the first time, I will be attending (on Friday).

I'm very much looking forward to that, but between now and then, we need to earn some bunce!

To help with this particular quest, I've been playing around with the draw again (strong high bias on the round course), and I've created an interesting little system.

You can see it on the 'Free Systems' page (click the link at the top of this page, next to 'blog').

My placepot fancies today are:

2.15 Zero Tolerance, Fort Churchill, Peruvian Prince (I might be looking at the quadpot after this!)
2.50 Aqaleem (strongly fancied today)
3.25 Asset, Dubai's Touch, Mutawaajid (strong e/w fancy)
4.00 Spirit of Sharjah (go Julia!!), Starlit Sands
4.35 Strategic Mount, Go Solo, Tilt, Cape Secret
5.05 Shallal (fancied though lots of unexposed nags), Royalist

144 x 25p = £36. See you at the payout queue!

Today's lays are:
Goodwood 4.35 Samurai Way
Beverley 4.50 Revue Princess

Finally, on the horse racing front, I've had a number of requests for the standard times and speed ratings spreadie that I use to calculate my numbers. In order to most expediently service these requests, I've put them up in cyberspace.

Please bear in mind that the standard times belong to Nick Mordin's team at nickmordin.com.

Times: www.nag-nag-nag.co.uk/speed/standard_times.txt

Spreadsheet (Excel): www.nag-nag-nag.co.uk/speed/070718.xls

Now then.....

It may or may not have escaped your attention that in the very near future, we shall be graced by the regular sight of 22 men kicking a painted pigskin towards a couple of white rectangles, in front of multiple thousands of partisan apes, all arbitrated by short-sighted drama queens.

Yes, dear readers, the football season is shortly upon us once more, and in this week of rejoicing, this is cause for yet one more 'Hallelujah'!

To get you in the mood, and to create some cross-reader bonhomie, I thought that I'd set up a Fantasy Football League (FFL). I'm sure you all know the premise: pick a squad; score points for goals, assists, clean sheets, etc; take the p155 out of your poorly performing mates; and try to win a prize.

The league I use is a free one (and in my opinion the best one), so it will cost you nothing to enter. There are cash prizes put up by Barclaycard and Budweiser, the joint sponsors.

And I will put up some racing related prizes as well, just as soon as I've worked out what they are.

I'm conscious that many of us get squillions of FFL invites each season, and the other great thing about this site is that you can enter the same team in multiple different leagues. So, for instance, my team will be competing in my Saturday football side (go Southgate County 5th XI!!), my old work league (go RBS techies!), and of course in the Nag3 Superleague.

Enough bluster from me - get over to http://www.premierleague.com/splash/fantasy/fantasy.html

and get signed up. Once you've chosen your team which will be entered of course into the overall competition, select the 'Leagues' button from the menu on the right hand side, and - where it says 'Join A Private League', enter this code:

533724-97750

(If you already have a team registered with PremierLeague.com, you simply do the 'Leagues', 'Join A Private League', enter code bit - easy as that).

The more the merrier, so get your mates to sign up as well, and then you can get beer / bragging rights out of them (or they can get them off you!).

I warn you, I'm a demon FFL player, so expect to royally whooped by the King of FFL!! ;o)

Paul's Each Way Selections, if there are any, will appear here later.

Get signed up for the footy now!!!
Matt