They say that the Championship Playoff Final is worth almost £60m to the winner but one client did his best to take that amount from us in Monday's WBA v Derby game. The punter bought the time of the 1st West Brom goal at 53 for £500 and, as The Baggies didn't make the net bulge, the market made up 90, giving the client a profit of £18,500. I'm sure you would also like to know that the other three trades that the punter (now referred to as 'lucky g*t') placed on the game were all successful and scooped him a further £25k!

The second Test would not have been comfortable viewing for the likes of Marshall, Walsh and co. as England destroyed the West Indies at Headingley. One client had a right touch and bought Kevin Pietersen';s runs at 70 for £100 as he strode out to the crease with England looking comfortable on 254. A big bet, but it never looked in doubt as KP battered and bruised the Windies 'pace' attack to rack up a mammoth 226 (England's largest individual innings in 17 years) and force our Finance Director to write a cheque to the punter for £15,600.

Torturous times for England's 'first' team as they were pummelled by the Springboks in Bloemfontein on Saturday. One punter had taken the view that it was going to be a tight encounter and sold Shirt Numbers in the game at 72 for £7 (the total shirt numbers of all the try scorers in the game). His decision was one to regret as South Africa destroyed England's depleted side going over seven times in the match, six times by the backs. Plus, to rub salt in the wound, England's solitary try was scored by substitute James Simpson-Daniel wearing number 22 to bring the final total of the market to 116 and leave the client nursing a £308 loss.

It shows how bad the West Indies are that England are now strong favourites to win ANY Test match but that is the situation they now find themselves in. One client hoped that after a rain affected first Test that the Windies would show their mettle and put up a performance against England and so bought their 1st Innings runs at 285 for £5. The last thing that the punter would have expected was to see Ryan 'Sideshow Bob' Sidebottom taking two early wickets to initiate a West Indies collapse which went on to cost him £695. Great news for England though as they condemned their opposition to its heaviest defeat of their 79 years and 438 Test match history.