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issue 37 posted at 11.00am on 24 August 2007...

The Mole is glad that he wasn’t a seller of rain for the months of July and August! Although if he had been he would be out of house and hole and might have even been forced back to just three pizza lunches per week! But the good news is that summer may make a brief re-appearance this Bank Holiday weekend. So, it should look nice outside the window of the pub or living room when you're getting stuck into another bumper, action packed, sweaty palmed, belt loosening weekend of sport – and we’ll be with you every step of the way.

Yours in sport
 

Just the idea of an England friendly fills your head with mediocrity doesn’t it? Even if you bother to watch it the only way to get yourself through the game is to have a bet on it. But, not many sell the time of the first England goal and when they do the laughter from the trading floor can be heard all around Lambeth. But that's exactly what one client did, slotting £50 at 51 in Wednesday's Germany 'showpiece'. After the early few minutes you would've thought that the punter was in real trouble as the pace dawdled. That was until England’s most popular midfielder put his Chelsea head on and cracked one into the top corner inside the ten minute mark. Well Mr. Punter, our traders aren't laughing at you or your £2,100 profit now.

A ‘Thai massage’ style trade (happy ending) from Mr. B in Kent…..“I play cricket with a fella and we've managed to recruit him into the world of spread betting. Now he's 18 and earns a bowl of rice a week so the stakes have to be ignored. But he had one of the unluckiest bets I've ever known on the Spurs v Derby game last Saturday. He bought Steed Malbranque’s Goal Minutes (for something stupid like 10p, but ignore that) at 8 and his man scores twice but he makes nothing from it! It made up 8 with him scoring in the second and sixth minute! As you can imagine, this amused us in the pub that night, but his day wasn't all bad, he was given orders by yours truly to find me a bet. He thought for a couple of seconds and pulled out some incredible stats on Barnet's recent plight so I sold their Win Index for £75 and they duly got beaten by Hereford 2-1! Needless to say our boy did not purchase a beer all evening and got very drunk, after all it was the least I could do!
 

Shock horror as England did a passable impression of a decent one-day cricketing outfit on Tuesday, convincingly brushed aside India in the first of their 27-match one day series. Although one client must still be in shock after opposing not one, but TWO England batsman who went on make centuries. He sold the runs of monsieurs Cook and Bell at 30 and 31 respectively for £5 each. Unfortunately for our man this wasn’t a fanciful and unbelievable tale but a Cook and Bell story as the centurions scored a total 228 runs between them. ‘England’, as the fraudsters were known, went on to win the day-nighter by a cool 104 runs leaving our client to nurse a £835 blow to the hip.

How long do you think Sven can resist until he explodes at a post-match press conference and shrieks “see, I told you I could do it”! Maybe he won’t but you wouldn’t blame him if he did after the Swede gave City fans their finest hour for years. One client who saw too many England games got firmly with United and bought their Team Total Goal Minutes at 83 for £200. To be fair the punter was robbed of his money as United totally bossed the game and were dreadfully unlucky to not win by at least three clear goals. But the Brazilian one-cap wonder that is Geovanni scored the only goal of the game in the 31st minute to condemn the client to losing almost the same amount as Sven is still getting paid per day by the FA!
 

Premiership Fergie’s face was red with rage (not wine) following United’s defeat at the City of Manchester Stadium last Sunday. The defending Premiership champions are down two to 38-41 on our Premiership Outright Index.

Rugby World Cup The Irish may have beaten Bayonne 42-6, but last Thursday’s warm-up turned into a very heated affair. Will injury problems dash Ireland’s World Cup dreams? Eddie O’Sullivan’s men are down two points to 30-33 on our Rugby World Cup Outright Index.

Bundesliga Bayern Munich splashed the cash during the summer and it looks to be paying dividends. Die Roten made it two wins from two starts when cruising to a 4-0 victory against Werder Bremen and they are up three points to 44-47 on our Bundesliga Outright Index.

Big Brother There’s only a week to go till the 2007 winner of Big Brother is named (the end couldn’t come soon enough right?) Liam, the tree lover from the North East, has been the biggest mover of the fancied three. He’s up two to 21-24 on our Big Brother Outright Index.
 

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...pts scored by St Helens
in last match v Catalans
 
 


...avg Spurs goals in
last 7 at Old Trafford
 


...avg Lge goals scored by Sun. in last 13 at home to L'pool

 
 


...avg time 1st match goal in last 2 Eve v B'burn games
 
 


...winning time in Men's
100m Final at 2005 WC
 
 


...avg SA pts in last 6
games at Murrayfield
 
 


...% Turkish GP winners
who started on pole
 
 


...MU's TGMs in last
match v Spurs
 
 


...mins since Newcastle
scored v Boro