For the penultimate time this season our pundits are back to look ahead to the QPR match and other value in the weekend markets.
No winners last week, although Brian still has ten quid live on the snooker – he is £106.78 in debt, the Challenger account is down by £16.04.
Brian Power
I am like others a creature of habit. Despite what I say on here, every week I head off to the bookies to place a couple of quid on us to win 3-1. It doesn’t matter who we play, how we are playing or where. I religiously place my bet and hope that I will be collecting from the lady behind the counter on Monday. Over the past few years it has happened but most of the time I am left with a slip that is scrunched up and thrown into the waster paper bin. This week I expect to be doing my Michael Jordon impression at around 4.55 on Saturday but I will go for us to win 3-1 as it happened for ages and it will at some point so why not this week?! will also have a punt on Routledge to get the first goal.
. I am going to back away from my normal four team bet and have a trixie (doubles and a treble). Man Utd play Spurs on Saturday evening and I am going to have a first scorer bet on that game and will go for a Spurs player to score first even though I think Utd will win the game.
Finally I am going to have a punt on this weekends racing and Hoo la Balloo is the big race at Sandown. It came third last year and I expect it to come out on top this time round. I was lucky enough to go on a tour round Newmarket recently and they showed us what a Blacksmith did. The Blacksmith asked if I had ever shooed a horse. I replied that I hadn’t but I once told a donkey to get lost.
For the weekend:
£5 QPR to win 3-1
£5 Wayne Routledge to score 1st goal
£5 trixie
Wolves 8/5
Bristol R 9/4
Dagenham & R 11/10
£10 1st scorer in the Man U v Spurs game - Wayne Rooney 9/2
£10 win - Hoo la Baloo 6/1 generally available
Previously advised
£10 S Mcguire to win World Snooker Championship 8/1
The Challenger
It was a case of so near and yet so far for me last week. Had Vine’s shot dipped a bit lower of Helguson shown a bit more composure I could have been leaving Wolves with £36 in my arse pocket on a draw bet, I got one of my two cup finalists and had ASrsene Wenger picked Andrei Arshavin that may well have paid out as well – Arshavin showed everybody what they were missing with an unbelievable display on Tuesday night where he only touched the ball four times and scored with every one of them. Stoke and Blackburn drew but Pompey got a late winner to wreck my double and although Doncaster did beat our opponents on Saturday at 3/1 Watford wrecked the other half of that bet. With two columns left, I’m going to have to go some to finish in the black.
For the weekend:
QPR 2 Plymouth 0 £10 15/2 VCBet
£10 Damion Stewart to score first 25/1 Bet365
£10 draw double Fulham v Stoke, Everton v Man City – both 5/2
Berbatov to score v Spurs, £5 first and £5 last both 5/1
Super League win double Salford and Wigan both 5/4