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Is it fair that the team who wins the
league does not win the title? The Guinness Premiership
Playoff Final between league 'winners' Gloucester
and Leicester may not be the right way to settle a
league title but one Irish client didn't care as he
bought Leicester's Performance at 63 for €20
(Win: 25 pts, Draw: 10 pts, Try: 15 pts, Conversion
/ Penalty / Drop Goal: 5 pts, Missed Penalty / Drop
Goal: -5 pts, Yellow Card / Sin Bin: -5 pts, Red Card
/ Sending Off: -15 pts). The Tigers had stormed into
a 22-6 lead by half time with three tries, two conversions
and a penalty. Tuilagi and co continued the blitz
in the second half, going over four more times to
cement a whopping 145 make-up and €1,640 profit
for the client. Bet you he will be on the same bet
when Leicester take on Wasps this Sunday.
It must be nice when you're not invited
to one golf event but end up going to another and
winning it. That's what Lee Westwood did last weekend
when he triumphed in the tongue-twisting Valle Romano
Open de Andalucia. One client bought the Englishman
on our Leaderboard Index at 11 for £50 (1st:
60 pts, 2nd: 40, 3rd: 30 and so on until 8th). Although
the punter would not have been overly confident after
Westwood's average first round of 72, the Ryder Cup
hero looked different class as he turned it on to
shoot 64, 65 and 67 to finish two shots clear and
take his 17th tour title. This elegance from the Worksop
boy delivered the client a £2,450 profit and
Westwood his first win in nearly four years!
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To say that the players in the Sheffield
United v Wigan 'trapdoor' match last Saturday showed
passion is the understatement of the year! One client
obviously had no faith in their commitment as he sold
bookings in the match at 54 for £5. Not a good
move as the match saw some monstrous tackles, the
size of which belonged on the set of an 'adult movie'
rather than a football match. In total 8 players were
booked and one was sent off for a second yellow to
bring the final total of the bookings market to 105,
leaving the bemused punter's pockets shy of £255.
Mr. T from London has a Warnock-like
beef with the refereeing officials this week.. "'I
bought the weekend's Bookings Bananas at 450 for £2.
The bet got off to a good start with the Saints v
Derby game yielding 6 bookings and the FA Trophy Final
a further 4. So at 12 x 8 = 96 (bookings: 2pts, reds:
5pts) I only needed a further 3 bookings to be well
in the money. Unfortunately the ref in the Bristol
Rovers v Lincoln game appeared to have misplaced his
cards after booking Nat Brown. There were a total
of 34 fouls committed by 18 players after that, including
6 handballs. I was under the impression that a deliberate
handball was an automatic booking? If it wasn't deliberate
then it shouldn't be a free kick, should it? There
were two players who each committed 3 fouls plus a
handball and yet they still went uncarded! One of
these actually committed 2 fouls in 2 minutes! Incredibly
there was only one booking in this maelstrom and I
went for a loss of £ 516. I've got it wrong
many, many times but on this occasion I think I was
robbed!".
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FA Cup Final Here's an
interesting one from our plethora of markets on the
big game. Total Throw-Ins are up 2 to 40-43. Do you
know something we don’t?
Heineken Cup Gloucester were savaged
by the rampant Tigers in the Guinness Premiership Final
last weekend. Will Wasps suffer a similar fate at Twickenham?
Leicester are up half a point to 52.5-53.5 on our Heineken
Cup - Outright Index.
European Football Nails are being bitten
to the quick in Spain (even Frank Rijkaard's dreadlocks
are shaking). Barcelona are down 8pts to 45-47 on our
Primera Liga - Championship Index after their disappointing
draw against Real Betis last weekend.
Super League "I can move, move,
move any mountain". Gloucester's rugby supreme,
Tom Walkinshaw, was heard whistling the ditty after
convincing Lesley 'The Volcano' Vainikolo to switch
codes earlier this week. The Bradford Bulls, who are
due to lose his services at the end of June, are down
2pts to 61-64 on our Super League - Outright Index.
Formula One Eddie Jordan says that
Lewis Hamilton won't win the Drivers' title this season.
I'm sure the Stevenage speedster isn't shedding any
tears. He's currently sitting pretty on top of the standings
and is up 4pts to 32-35 on our F1 - Drivers Championship
Index.
Politics So Tony Blair is leaving No.10?
Boo-hoo! Now let's talk real politics. The Irish General
Election is now less than a week away and Enda Kenny's
Fine Gael party have come in for some support. Their
Total Seats are trading up 1.5 to 50.5-52. |
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FA Cup Final goal
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