Saturday

Hi

Totally agree with the return of the football season being a tough day. Looking at the results come in and guessing the odds I would be getting if I bet on a team to win or lose in play. It's going to take a while to watch football and not associate it with betting. Not sure if that would ever be possible???

Today is also day 28 gamble free. Congratulations to all those who have survived today and the urge to bet with all the hype and ads from bookies trying to lure us in.

Paul

Guard Up!

You've identified the threat before it arrives, which gives you time to put together your strategy for resistance. Whether that's change of scene, avoiding the company of sports bettors, developing a different inner narrative around sport, or pure blunt determination - - find it and use it.

I got through it. I am from the north east but support wigan athletic, so to avoid the pure I drove a 450 mile round trip to go watch my team and cost myself around £60 which is nothing compared to what I could have spent sitting at home watching the results come in.

Well done one to everyone who didn't take the life of the bookies on Saturday, I'm proud.

If the cost of a ticket and a drive will ensure that you are gamble-free, why not go every week? Save money and have fun all at once. "I have to go to the game. It's for my health!"

I would love to be able to sit and watch football with people who only cared about what teams they supported, seems like everyone's football bets are more important than their football loyalties, and that's just the normal folks and their 'fun' bets. Me n my recovering gambler got through it, well done to all of you who did too.

Saturday was hard for me too, and my boyfriend managed to slip up and told me all about his accumulator

keep going x

Tom- This is exactly my problem and probably many people on here, if you don't bet on the game then the bet you was going to place comes in, but if you do then low and behold it doesn't! The betting gods are cruel! I've learnt to say to myself that what ever happens if I bet on that game it will not come in and to an extent this is helping, however I have relapsed today and lost a further £700 to make it a total of £5000 down now. For me I'm telling myself that that's the end but the urge will always be there to have just 'one more bet'

We are totally deluding ourselves if we imagine that if we don't gamble then our missed bet always wins. There are no "betting gods". Learn to enjoy the game without the agony of worrying over every corner, free kick or late goal. It feels good.

Lads, learn to enjoy football again. It's a wonderful sport with opinions and debates!!

We always forget the games we would have put money on in between each game, that would have lost. Don't loath yourself for winning something you didn't bet on.

Detox! Get rid of the urges. Watch football and enjoy!!!

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