Thursday, 14th March 2002

The Racing Post

For some bizarre reason that erstwhile authoratative journal The Racing Post starts to wobble like The Millenium Bridge when it attempts to dip their toes in the water with it's coverage of Italian football.

I don't know wherer they get their information from but they are consistently wrong with their observations and so-called 'tipster' Ian Coyne has to be the worst tipster in the world. I can't recall him getting one single Italian Football bet correct, and they're almost as bad on their Spanish football coverage.

Added to his inability to spot a winner, he can't get through a single paragraph without refering to Deportivo La Corruna as 'The Galicians' , he can't think beyond calling a goalkeeper 'a cat' and if anyone ever scored two goals he appears to have 'bagged a brace'. God forbid if the Galican Cat ever bagged a brace, he'd go into overdrive. I'm thinking of putting my cat up against him in a tipping contest. Correspondent Steve Davies is not that better informed though his betting selections are a little better.

This Thursday's paper held the assumption that 'there is a question mark over the fitness of Milan striker Andrei Shevchenko' well there might be to them but everybody else seemed to know that he'd been left out of the squad as early as Tuesday and hadn't even made the trip to Cyprus for the game. Still this is par for the course with them - I eagerly await this weekends Serie-A 'tips'.

Real Madrid - 3pts @ 15/8 - LOST
Inter 3pts @ 5/6 - WON
Torino 1pt @ 5/1 - LOST
Bayern Munich 2pts @ 6/4 - LOST

Total LOSS 3.5 pts

Bayern Munich - 7pts @ 4/9 - WON
Gala -v- Barca - 3pts Draw @ 11/5 - LOST
Liverpool -v- Roma - 4pts Draw @ 11/5 - LOST
Man City/Carlisle/Blackpool-Brentford (Draw) - 1 pt Treble4 - LOST

Total LOSS 4.9 pts