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There has been talk that a couple of missing Barcelona players got themselves booked on purpose so that they didn't have to form a guard of honour for their most hated arch-rivals and league champions, Real Madrid. Real, who clinched the title with a 2-1 win at Osasuna on Sunday, had the smug pleasure of being greeted onto the pitch by the Catalan giants. One client will feel equally as smug after buying the bookings in what might have been deemed as a meaningless match at 49 for £150. Real dominated the game from start to finish, humiliating their nemesis 4-1, Barca's heaviest league defeat for three years. More importantly yellow cards were flashed in the first half to Toure, Marquez and Sneijder. And in the second half the ref got busy with Henry, Valdes, Xavi, Edmilson, Heinze, and Pepe. To cap a quite miserable night for Frank Rijkaard’s men but a cracking one for the punter, Xavi was shown another yellow card to bring the total for the market up to a meaty 105 leaving our man to wallow in his £8,400 profit.
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We had this very unfortunate sequence of events in from Mr. M from Surrey this week…"Gambling is a strange medium. Only three weeks a go I was gloating after a successful Masters and then we have this weekend. I was with Thomas Levet over McGinley in a match. I left work for the gym and Thomas had a three shot lead with two holes to go. Then he goes: quadruple bogey, triple bogey and Paul McGinley finishes birdie birdie! I find out this lovely news when I get back in the car. The next day I'm with Aaron Baddeley over VJ. I take the kids for a pizza in Dorking and drink a couple of bottles of wine with the lovely wife. Arrive home and decide to go to bed with Baddeley leading by three with a hole to go. Yep, you've guessed it! I awake in the morning, turn on the PC and learn that Baddeley made a triple bogey on the last and VJ birdied it! A £1600 profit turns into a £450 loss! Anyway, the cheque is in the post (honestly) and I promise to win this week."
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Championship Playoffs Neil Warnock's Eagles are brimming with confidence ahead of the forthcoming playoffs following their 5-0 drubbing of Burnley last weekend. Palace are up half a point to 10-11.5 on our Championship Playoff Index.
Guinness Premiership We are guaranteed a grandstand finish to the regular season this weekend with the top-two sides, Gloucester and Bath, locking horns at Kingsholm. The Cherry and Whites are up seven to 51-53 on our Outright Index (regular season only) after beating Wasps last Sunday.
Super League What a 'magical' weekend we had at the Millennium Stadium, well Wakefield supporters definitely did. The Wildcats tore Castleford to shreds (54-16) and in so doing, stretched their league winning streak to four games. They are up three to 8-11 on our Super League Outright Index.
Mildly interesting / useless sporting fact of the week Golfer Thomas Levet suffers from severe vertigo and once described his symptoms like this: "Imagine being in a car that is spinning for 45 minutes. Or imagine a hamster spinning on its wheel. Except I'm not the hamster, I'm the wheel!"
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...matches since Palace conceded 2nd half goal
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...avg time 1st goal in last 3 Watford v Hull games
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...pts scored in last
Gloucester v Bath match
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...no. classified finishers
in last Turkish GP
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...avg TGMs in last 4 games between Chelsea and Bolton
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...Ballack avg goal mins in last 2 league matches
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...avg MU team goal mins
in last 3 v Wigan
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in last match
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