Que Sera Sera

Que Sera Sera.

As my parents are in Scotland I have been on a different PC in the house so wasn't checking my emails on Hotmail all day yesterday. If I had then this would have been yesterday's story.

I woke up this morning and clicked onto MSN and checked my emails and there was one sitting there from Paul Cheung.

Paul, if you recall, was the writer at Inside Edge magazine who was responsible for the Gambling God competition.

My participation in the final of the competition was ropey to say the least and when I hadn't heard from him in the weeks following the last selection I gave up all hope of winning.

What will be, will be.

I didn't even want to win. I wanted to finish second so I could go to the FA Cup in Wembley this May. I thought it ironic that I didn't want to win yet was angry that I didn't win anything.

Today's email was titled 'Gambling God' so I clicked on it wondering what it was about. It had been over six weeks since the final so I assumed it was the final leaderboard.

How wrong I was!

Congratulations David, I’m delighted to tell you that you came second in the Gambling God 2006 final and as such have won a pair of tickets to the 2007 FA Cup final, plus £200 worth of ante-post bets. You racked up a very respectable 27.68 pts profit. I have contacted bet365 and passed them on your details. You should be receiving an email from them within in the next few days explaining how to claim your prize.

This has been a few days of peaks and valleys. I collapsed on the 28th December, was signed off on the sick on the 3rd January and now this arrived in the email box!

I have something to aim for now.

I'm Going to Wembley.