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| What an eventful cup third round. Goals, fights, broken limbs and of course, plenty of upsets and let's just say our FA Cup 3rd Round Upset Index has been a bit lively! With 10pts per Champ side through, 20 per League One, 30 per League Two and 50 per Non-League team to succeed, the opening price of 280-295 was bought hard by one punter for £50. With only one all Prem tie taking place, it was going to be volatile. Saturday's games got off to a fantastic start when the North-East fell to the rest of the country with Stevenage wiping out Newcastle, Burton doing the same to Boro and Notts Country bringing down Sunderland (80 unexpected pts). With a profit available to the client after the Saturday games our man hung in there and despite no further points on Sunday he was rewarded with 50 as non-league Crawley dumped out Derby on Monday night. With four replays next week including Arsenal's tricky trip to Leeds, the minimum the punter is looking at is a 55 pt profit (£2,750). |
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| The NFL is something I would love to get more serious about. But as the season is no more than four months long, by the time it comes around and I start getting into it, it's over! Thankfully I've managed to grab hold of its coattails with enough time to understand how big an upset there was on Saturday night. In the words of my friend and Sporting Index NFL pundit, Nick Halling "The Seahawks are officially the worst team ever to make the playoffs", so when they're pitched against defending champs New Orleans (who are 12 point favourites and someone's waded in and bought £500 of them on the Supremacy market), the last thing you'd expect was for the team, who were 7-9 coming into the game, to pull off one of the greatest upsets in NFL playoff history. But they did, thanks to Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and his four touchdown passes (Saints had only given up 13 all season) carrying them to an astonishing 41-36 victory, which left one big punter with a £8,500 hole in the wallet. |
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