First Goal : Dimitar Berbatov returns to his old haunt, White Hart Lane, on Saturday evening and we are taking the Man Utd striker to open the scoring against his former club at 5/1

weekend soccer
Martin Rogan and Emmanuel Adebayor provided the Guide with two 4/1 winners to keep us just ahead of the bookmaker last weekend.
Our PG quad looked good at around 4.40 last weekend, then two late, late goals at Southampton and Newcastle thwarted the bet.
Back to the drawing board with two weeks left to get the Christmas cash in.
Punters GUIDE FIVE-HIT
We start with our odds-on FIVE-HIT and the first live game of the weekend. We have taken ARSENAL (8/11) to take all points at Middlesboro in Saturday’s lunchtime game.
Hopefully that will start the ball rolling and we move to the Championship for our next two selections.
CRYSTAL PALACE (4/6) are in great form at present and should collect at home to Doncaster.
READING (8/15) are another team who are playing at the top of their game at the moment and their pursuit of Birmingham and Wolves can continue with a win at home to Norwich.
LEEDS (4/6) have been wobbling of late but should get back on track with a win at home to Colchester.
Making this week’s five-hit up are HIBS (4/6) who can follow up that Celtic win with another victory at home to Hamilton who were hit for seven by Rangers last week.
Punters GUIDE XXX
On to the draws and we start in the Premiership. FULHAM are proving a difficult team to beat and we are banking on Hodgson’s team to take a point at Stoke.
Another team who can’t stop drawing are BRISTOL CITY, nine already this season – we hope it’s ten on Saturday when they visit SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY.
We end our XXX with the late kick-off in the Premiership when Man Utd pay a visit to White Hart Lane to to take on a rejuvenated Spurs team. We expect a hard-fought draw here for the champions.
All the above draws priced at 12/5. The rest is up to you, don’t forget those doubles.
Punters GUIDE QUAD
MAN CITY (5/4) start this week’s quad at home to Everton who have all their strikers out injured – three points looks the bet for Mark Hughes and his team.
WIGAN (1/1) could take advantage of Blackburn’s awful current form and bag the three points that could see Paul Ince leave Ewood Park.
BIRMINGHAM (11/8) are the form team in the Championship and Alex McLeish’s team can grab maximum points at Preston.
Making the quad up are MILLWALL (13/8) who are flying and currently second in the table – we are banking on the Lions to take all points at Walsall.

horse racing

A CRACKING weekend of top-notch racing ahead and yours truly will be in Dublin for the office Christmas Party – so a few winners is vital to pay for the expensive drink in the Temple Bar district.
Let’s shoot off with the Boylesports Gold Cup (2.30) where the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Imperial Commander bids for his second Gold Cup after hacking up in the Paddy Power equivalent back in November.
The well-beaten runner-up that day, Barber’s Shop, has since franked the form and the 9/4 on offer, although short for this kind of race, looks a good punt.
The each-way punt of the race for us is Irish raider FINGERONTHE PULSE who was last seen chasing home Noland at Down Royal – if he jumps round he will be there or thereabouts.
Sean Graham Bet: Imperial Commander 9/4, Silverburn 11/2, Finger On The Pulse 12/1, Possol 12/1, Three Mirrors 12/1, My Petra 14/1, Big Bucks 20/1, L’Antartique 20/1, Notable D’Estruval 20/1, Nozic 20/1, Private Be 20/1, Sky’s The Limit 20/1, Battlecry 25/1, Exotic Dancer 25/1, Lord Henry 25/1, Maljimar 25/1, Oslot 25/1, Ring The Boss 25/1, Scotsirish 25/1, Abragante 33/1.
The Boylesports.com International Hurdle (3.05) looks the Champion Hurdle trial of the season so for and what a mouthwatering race it is.
Champion Hurdle ante-post favourite Binocular, as expected, leads the betting market for Saturday’s big race at 7/4.
I’m looking elsewhere and I have sided with reigning champ KATCHIT who has had two prep runs this season and will be primed for this come Saturday. He absolutely loves it round Cheltenham and 7/2 looks better value than the favourite. Each-way bet for the race has to be bridle horse Harchibald (10/1) who also knows his way round Cheltenham.
Sean Graham Bet: 7-4 Binocular, 3-1 Chomba Womba, 7-2 Katchit, 4-1 Crack Away Jack, 10-1 Harchibald, Celestial Halo, 14-1 River Liane, 16-1 Solwhit, 25-1 Khyber Kim, Serabad, 50-1 Won In The Dark.
Another few Saturday selections: Starluck (12.15), Punchestown (1.10), Buck The Legend (1.55) and Diamond Harry (3.35). If they win I’ll be staying in Dublin.

weekend bets

Local punters took the PG advice last week and lumped on Martin Rogan to beat Audley Harrison.
He was as big as 4/1 with Sean Grahams and punters took full adavantage of that fat price.
Layers report heavy losses on the fight – one local guy staked a grand on the Springfield fighter.
We have stayed quiet on the reality TV betting – until now, that is. Eoghan Quigg has made the final of The X-Factor and yours truly backed him at 7/2 last week. Eoghan is now as short as 5/2 to win the final on Saturday so for the sake of my bet – vote Eoghan.
The Christmas No.1 betting is now as good as void with The X-Factor winner always guaranteed the top spot, so in effect they’re betting without the favourite.
Leona Lewis leads the betting on 10/11. We are putting two up against her.
First is the Peter Kaye character Geraldine McQueen, who’s a cracking 5/1 bet to get that second spot.
Boyzone are another ex-boyband who have made a comeback and their new single, Better, is probably their best to date and the 33/1 on offer could turn out to be the value bet of the year.