Published on March 8th, 2010no comments
After the scourge of a brutal winter comes the gamblers scourge of unpredictable pitches. It looked like the usual rant of a madman when Sir Alex Ferguson suggested that the turgid pitch had “killed Wayne Rooney”, but he may have a point. The problems with the Wembley pitch are well documented, but elsewhere in England – as the permafrost threatened to lift across the country – an unprecedented number of managers claimed the pitch as a factor in iffy results. There were grumblings at Peterborough in The Championship as the poor surface did nothing to help a home side that prefers to play it on the deck, but the worst pitching – inevitably – further down the leagues.
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Published on March 3rd, 2010no comments
So we have three teams within three points of each other at the top of the Premier League, and the bookies are undecided as to who is going in it. Chelsea (61 points) and Man Utd (60 points) are impossible to split at 6/4, while Arsenal (58 points) are a little bit bigger on 11/4. Exciting stuff, eh? And, here’s the thing: it’s going to get a lot more exciting because the outsider is going to rip right through the field and win.
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Published on February 25th, 2010no comments
So, Wayne Bridge has decided that he cannot play alongside a man who stole his girlfriend away from him, forced him out of the club he was happy at, and still managed to maintain his relationship with his wife, and his place in the national team. Despite Fabio Capello insisting otherwise, it is not a surprise to me. Throughout this whole, tawdry, and, rather predictably for overpaid superstar Premier League players these days, entirely predictable, Bridge has been an absolute gentleman.
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Published on February 22nd, 2010no comments
We are now creeping towards the 100-day marker for the world cup in South Africa in the summer, which is starting to have an intriguing side-effect on the Premier League. It is a very difficult thing to spot, but any team with a number of World Cup-bound players in it, is going to suffer a little as those players begin to get the injury-sweats. To pick up an injury at this stage – with only a couple of weeks before national managers make provisional decisions about their final squad – would be absolutely calamitous, and the players are more than aware of it.
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Published on February 11th, 2010no comments
It’s been a while since my last missive, but I have an excuse: I was busy getting married! While I was otherwise engaged (geddit!) the football season has slowly sputtered to life after many weeks of snowbound frustration. Chelsea have wrestled some kind of lead at the top of the Premier League, while (as I predicted) both Newcastle and Leeds have managed to let slip seemingly unassailable leads at the top of the Championship and League One.
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Published on January 4th, 2010no comments
Happy New Year to you all, here’s hoping 2010 is just as profitable as
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Published on December 21st, 2009no comments
As I begin to pen the penultimate newsletter of the year, I can’t help looking back on what has been a crazy year for football. The sacking of Mark Hughes over the weekend brought the madness of football to a deafening crescendo – or the game to a sickening low. It has to be noted that while the rest of the world inhales deeply on the pipe of austerity, football at the top level continues to be unable to see through the thick cloud of hot air it has created for itself.
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Published on December 14th, 2009no comments
The Premier League aside – and we still have midweek games to go this week in the English Premier League – we had a very profitable weekend with some very generous odds. I hope you all got a decent price on Leicester City beating Sheffield Wednesday at home. We advised 4/5, but I know that the slightly more generous 10/11 was still available on Betfair only two hours before kick-off. Leicester’s 3-0 victory highlighted what is now happening in the Championship: the form lines are starting to work themselves out, which is good for those able to pick through the clues to find winners.
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Published on December 9th, 2009no comments
I received an unsolicited email last week giving me a “surefire way to beat the casinos”. All I needed to do – and if I told anyone the author “would kill me”, apparently – was place £2 on black and then after every loser raise the stake 2.5 times, and then stop at a winner and start the process again from £2 to be guaranteed profits every time. “Be careful, though, because after a while the casinos will start barring you. They hate winners, mate,” my new virtual friend warned. “They hate winners…” It’s been said enough times about bookies, too. No oddsmaker likes a winner.
It’s so not true.
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