The Premiership season reaches its climax this weekend and it has come down to the final day of the season with Chelsea and Man Utd scrapping it out for the title.
Both teams have home games with Chelsea 1-9 shots against Wigan at the Bridge, while Man Utd are 1-8 to beat Stoke at Old Trafford.
In their hearts most Man Utd supporters have thrown the towel in by now and glumly expect the Blue Army to steamroll Wigan on Sunday – we can only agree.
PG Fivehit
Man City 8-13 to win at West Ham and Spurs 1-2 to win at relegated Burnley – they are the first two teams down in our weekend Fivehit.
Back to Saturday and we begin our Fivehit with teams who need points for one reason or another. Tranmere (8/13) need to win at Stockport and hope Exeter fail to beat Huddersfield to stay in League One and they should collect three vital points in this one.
At the top of League One it is tight for the automatic promotion places and if Leeds fail to win at home to Bristol Rovers then it’s wide open for the other four teams and CHARLTON (5/6) can win at Oldham to give themselves an outside chance.
MORECAMBE (4/5) know a win against Aldershot on Saturday will see them qualify for the play-offs against a team who have already qualified, so hopefully a winning Fivehit this week.
PG QUAD
On to the weekend quad and we are banking on MILLWALL (1/1) to gave us a winning start with a win over fellow promotion chasers Swindon at the New Den.
BARNET (1/1) are on the brink of going out of league football but can survive if they beat already promoted Rochdale, and we think they can. WALSALL (1/1) can end their season with a win over MK Dons and making the quad up are HUDDERSFIELD (2/1) who could condemn Exeter to League Two football next season as they chase that remaining automatic slot.
PG XXX
We finish with the draw treble that rewarded punters who back the double with an 11/1 winner last week.
The Championship play-offs get under way this weekend – expect close games. We have opted for draws in both with BLACKPOOL taking on NOTTINGHAM FOREST on Saturday morning and CARDIFF tackling LEICESTER on the Sunday.
Overall, I have a liking for Cardiff at 9/4 to be playing Premiership football next season just ahead of Forest.
Making the XXX up is the visit of Sunderland to Wolves in a dead rubber at Molineux, hopefully a 3-3 draw with Bent netting a hat-trick.
We put Darren Bent up each-way at 50/1 to win the Golden Boot and he is third on 24 goals – two behind Wayne Rooney and Didier Drogba. In a poor team, that’s some going.
last PREMIERSHIP GOAL
Skybet have laid odds on who scores the last Premiership goal of the season, which is a lottery of a bet but the PG has invested a few pounds on... guess who?
Darren Bent at 14/1 to be the last goalscorer of the 2010 Premiership season is the bet for us.
Racing
The Punters Guide and his merry band of Belfast Media Group colleagues will embark on the short trip to Downpatrick on Friday night for a fundraising night.
For anyone who has not sampled the south Down race track for a evening meeting, well, it’s simple – you don’t know what you are missing out on.
The seven-race card gets under way at 5.30pm on Friday and ex- Man Utd players David May, Paul McGrath and Paddy Crerand will be in attendance.
If you are travelling down make sure you give yourselves plenty of time for travel – there are some roadworks en route to the venue. ANY TIPS let us know..
We delivered a very lucky Special Duty in the 2000 Guineas at 9/2 last weekend while Canford Cliffs grabbed third for us at 12/1 in the 1000 Guineas so hopefully another winner or two for this weekend. We start with the ultra-competitive Grade 2 Swinton Hurdle at Haydock on Saturday (3.35) and recent Scottish Champion Hurdle winner OVERTURN from the Donald McCain yard looks a great bet at 10/1 in this one as he chases a fourth win on the trot.
Another horse chasing four wins on the trot and worth a mention is CICERON and he could run a big race at 14s.
Back to the flat, and we have the totesport Victoria Cup (3.25) and the jolly in this MABAIT looks the one they all have to beat after he sluiced home from Tartan Gigha (a winner since) at Sandown.
Luca Cumani loves these big handicaps and has booked Kieran Fallon for the 6/1 favourite.
Splendorinthegrass won well on his seasonal debut and could be the each-way value in the race with Ted Durcan taking the ride on this 20/1 outsider.
11 comments:
have a good day
nap for the knowledge box in the 1st race at 8/1
sammy s
any luck on friday?
CB
results were good for the punters friday at downpatrick.You must have cleaned up?
sam.s.
ol' barney curley was at his lark yesterday. Did anyone get a touch?
lifted 220 quid on Bent for an each-way top goalscorer. Got chinned in the end but got a good sweat for the season
johnnyboy
I know the PG cleaned up on Saturday as I was behind him in the Springfield Road pitch and he was picking up £280.45 to be exact
heyhey PG
Ton
sure it was me ..
thursday nag: Foghorn Leghorn
Saturday?
i was asking about Friday?
With them results at Downpatrick you could not lose
CB
Drew a blank on Friday night mate.
spent too much time fundraising and looking after BMG staff but few guys with us won a few shackles which was great.
but last comment 'with them results at Downpatrick you could not lose' is the biggest pile off bullshit - Sean Grahams won a five-figure some at the North Down track on Friday night.
If punters like CB are going to comment here, let's make sure they are worthwhile comments instead of that last very poor comment that was senseless.
just found out that comments by Sammy S and CB are actually coming from an IP address here at ATN headquarters - now to pinpoint what machine..
Let us know who it is Gerard - very interesting
Liam
The plot thickens at teach basil. There has to be a story behind this as PG showed unusual signs of sensitivity to the aforementioned comments. Spill it gerard
johnnyboy
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