Saturday night saw a tremendous advert for the inaugural Four Nations rugby league tournament currently taking place on these shores. After England limped to a win over the tournament's whipping boys France, the fireworks began at the Stoop on Saturday night when Australia locked horns with New Zealand with the late drama making one client very happy. After a dazzling match which saw both sides level at the break, New Zealand were on the verge of a shock as they led by a converted try with just two minutes to play. Australia went for broke, getting within 5 metres of the Kiwi line. Cameron Smith's misplaced pass was well picked up by Tony Inglis who battled his way through to the line before popping it to Smith who went over. Immeasurable joy for the client who had bought the hooker's Try Minutes at 9 for £100, landing him £6,900. Try Minutes; there's simply no other bet like it!

Games between Liverpool and United have a reputation for being something of a war of attrition. And with so much so early riding on this game, Sunday's encounter was no different. But it was not chances and goals that interested this client who sold Liverpool's Team Card Minutes at 145 for £10. The punter's gaze was firmly fixed on the exotically named ref Andre Marriner from Birmingham, who faced a busy afternoon. Our man was going great guns as it seemed big Andre only had eyes for United players, booking Evra and 'Lazy'tov in the first half. As the time ticked away it seemed the client was destined for a winning trade. But Andre turned on our man booking Mascherano on 72 minutes for unsporting behaviour. But the client could deal with that, all he wanted was no mo...oh Jamie, what have you done? Carragher sent Owen crashing with three minutes left and was lucky to only get a yellow. Surely that was the end of it, the 159 mak...oh Javier, what have you done? Mascherano's unnecessary late challenge on Van der Saar in injury time meant a second yellow and a red card counts double in this market. 180 points to the bad and total of 339, which ensured a £1,940 loss for the unlucky chap.

Football Each of the top four have wobbled at some point and now Liverpool, after looking like a shadow of their former selves, turn over the Champions when some (including this Mole) least expected it! Rafa's Reds yo-yo back up four points to 22-25 on our Premier League Championship Index.

NFL New Orleans launched an incredible 4th Quarter comeback to beat Miami 46-34 on Sunday. The visitors racked-up 22 points in the final fifteen minutes to keep their unbeaten streak alive. Are the Saints the team to fear? They're up four points on our Super Bowl Outright Index to 52-56.

X-Factor Judges favourite Danyl Johnson put in another crowd pleasing performance but was made to go head-to-head with Miss Frank in the weekend elimination. The 27-year-old teacher survived, but has his confidence taken too much of a bashing? Johnson is down four points on our X-Factor Elimination Index to 15-18.


Mildly interesting / useless sporting fact

You might have heard about Dragan Stojkovic's 'goal' from the dugout a couple of weeks ago. Well new footage has been unearthed by the Asian equivalent of Skinner and Baddiel which shows the Serbian legend has lost none of his talent. The instinct to just get up and boot it is tremendous. Click here.