I read an interesting article in The Sunday Times of 13 Oct 2013 in which the author shares with readers that he engages in betting the soccer team he does not support so that if his favourite soccer team wins, he will be happy and if the team does not win, he will be happy too as he will have won some monies and not feel the blues of not having his favourite team win. While I applaud the author for coming out with such a novel concept, I was also thinking that if I were the author, I would have a better strategy: why not, I do not bet on the soccer teams at all? If the favourite team that I support wins, I will be happy; if not I will just go for a long run to improve moods and then use the monies which I would have ......
