Good times

Last weekend proved to be a good one for me with 7 winners compared with 3 losers, although I'm struggling a bit with the snooker. also there was a profit made with me correctly predicting that Bolton and Villa would draw and West Brom would beat Sunderland. It's coming to the end of the football season, and it's tight at both ends which is exciting.
Performance of the week goes to Jenson Button for picking up another GP win, could we have two British winners of the title in a row, that would be nice.

Mixed sport

There is quite a lot of sport happening this weekend, of course we have all the football, along with F1, snooker and lots of tennis and rugby. A lot of the football picks itself in terms of winners so I'm going for wins for Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal. there is a chance to make a little bit of cash with Bolton to draw with Villa at 23/10, West Brom to beat Sunderland at 11/8 and Newcastle to beat Portsmouth at evens and they really need to.
As for the snooker i picked three guys earlier in the week, one has gone in Ebdon but the other two are safely through.
The F1 heads for Bahrain this weekend, and Mclaren are looking a bit more competitive, so Hamilton at 10/1 to win maybe a good bet, but Rosberg at 20/1 is a great bet and that's where my money will be.

Quality football

We have been treated to some great games in the last few weeks, but non better than Liverpool and Arsenal on Tuesday. Ok i got the prediction wrong but to be honest i don't care when you see football like that. Tonight the games were a little quieter and i notched another correct prediction with Man Utd beating Portsmouth, and pretty much sealing the title.

Pictured is Andrei Arshavin who scored 4 goals in the game at Liverpool.

Midweek football and snooker

Ok so because of the FA Cup games at the weekend there are 3 midweek fixtures in the Premiership. They should provide straight forward wins for Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Utd, the closest one should be Aresenal travelling to Liverpool.

Also as some of you may know the snooker World Championships have started, and I've been asked to give some predictions on this. Now snooker isn't a strong point of mine, but here goes. Looking at the odds Ronnie O'Sullivan is short at 15/8, i would look past him though as he has a tough draw. Good bets are Peter Ebdon at 33/1, after just winning the China Open, and maybe as an outsider Shaun Murphy priced at 14/1. Till the next time stay lucky!!

Celebration

Celebration is in order as i went past 50 winners on this blog, since the new system started. This weekend was a bit mixed though really with 5 winners and 5 losers, but i managed to make money again, which is the best news.

So keep following, as i head for the next milestone of 100 winners, something i never thought I'd achieve when i first started this blog.

Also being celebrated this week is the winner of the Chinese Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel, well done on the victory.

Challenge The Hammer results

This was a mixed week for my selections, but in this competition i still managed to pick up 3 points, with Chelsea beating Arsenal 2-1 as i predicted. Also i predicted Spurs would beat Newcastle and they did but i got the score wrong. Matt took me on and also got 3 points by predicting Chelsea would beat Arsenal, and Portsmouth would beat Bolton 1-0.
A draw again this week that keeps me ahead, get in.

Challenge The Hammer Round 3

My predictions for Challenge The Hammer this week are-

Chelsea v Arsenal 2-1
Man Utd v Everton 2-1
Portsmouth v Bolton 2-2
Sunderland v Hull 1-1
Spurs v Newcastle 2-0

Again take me on if you are hard enough!!

Looking forward to a top weekend

This weekend again sees a lot of sporting action we have a big Premier League football schedule as well as the two FA Cup semi-finals. The next round of the motor racing season hits China, and teams will be looking to catch Jenson. I'm also pleased to say the domestic cricket season got underway yesterday, unfortunately the weather has dampened it as it usually does.
So there are again a few good bets to be had this weekend, Middlesbrough and Fulham to draw 12/5, Stoke to beat Blackburn 11/8, along with Portsmouth to draw with Bolton at 11/5 and Sunderland to draw with Hull at 23/10. These should keep us all in profit.
The FA Cup is a fairly predictable affair with the four clubs all in the top six in the league, i see Chelsea beating Arsenal at 7/5 and Utd beating Everton at odds on.
If you feel Jenson Button can pick up another GP win as i do he's priced at 11/10.
Other predictions for now are Villa to beat West Ham, and how we need too, Spurs to win at home to Newcastle and Man City to be victorious over relegation threatened West Brom.
Remember all my odds come from William Hill.

Challenge The Hammer round 2 results

This week in the second ever Challenge The Hammer, i picked up 3 points for correctly predicting Villa and Everton would draw, Chelsea would beat Bolton and Utd would beat Sunderland.
My good friend Alan also got 3 points for predicting 1-2 in the Utd game and saying Chelsea would beat Bolton. So all square, so i stay undefeated going into round 3!!

What a weekend

Some really good sport this weekend, and i have to say the golf was amazing.
As for my predictions i had 6 winners compared to 4 losers so up again, and a small profit of £3.75, so not too bad. If Perry had hung on in the golf that would have been more, so blame him not me.
So this weeks performance of the week has to go to the winner of the US Master Angel Cabrera, well done even though you did pip my prediction to the post.

Challenge The Hammer Round 2

This weekend I'm going for-
Middlesbrough v Hull 0-0
Sunderland V Utd 0-2
Chelsea V Bolton 2-0
Stoke V Newcastle 1-0
Villa V Everton 1-1
So who will step up and take me on this week?

This Weekend

Right there are some obvious winners this weekend, with not much money to be made on them. Liverpool are already 2-0 up and will cruise that one, I'm also going for Portsmouth to beat West Brom, Utd to win away at Sunderland, Chelsea to beat Bolton, Spurs to beat West Ham, Arsenal to be too strong for Wigan and Man City to win at home against Fulham.
There are some good bets though like Middlesbrough to draw with Hull at 9/4, Stoke to beat Newcastle at 7/5 and Villa and Everton to draw at 11/5.
Also Sunday sees the climax of the US Masters, so i will try and pick the winner of that. It's a bit of a shot in the dark but Kenny Perry is looking good currently joint top and priced 5/1, Europe's best hopes lie with Sergio Garcia 14/1 and Padraig Harrington 18/1. Then one outside bet is Todd Hamilton attractively priced at 40/1.

Challenge The Hammer results

Well the first Challenge The Hammer proved to be a very tough one to call, and i must say thanks to Jose for taking part, but I'm not sure that's your real name.
Anyway i collected 1 point for correctly predicting Barcelona would beat Bayern Munich, other than that the results were bad for me. But my challenger failed to guess and of the results right giving The Hammer a 1-0 win!!

The 1st Challenge The Hammer

To launch Challenge The Hammer I'm going to predict the winner and the correct score of the 4 Champions League games this week. I'll looking for someone to take me on and give their predictions of these games, and we'll see who wins. There'll be 1 point for picking the winner and 2 points for the correct score.

So I'm going for Villarreal to beat Arsenal 1-0, Man Utd to beat Porto 2-0, Barcelaona to beat Bayern Munich 3-1 and Liverpool to edge Chelsea 2-0. All i need now is someone to take me on, if you're brave enough.

Generally a good weekend!!

A very good weekend of predictions for me, in total i picked 10 correctly and only 2 incorrectly, one of those being the National.
The football went really well for me and some of the good bets came in, plus Jenson Button won the Grand Prix just as i had predicted.
Also I'm introducing a slide show to celebrate the best performance of the week, and to start us off I'm concentrating on the winner of the Grand National Mon Mome.

Football and F1

There seems to be some good bets for today's football, there are some close games hence some good odds. I'm going for Blackburn and Spurs to draw priced 7/4, Also Hull and Pompy to draw at 11/5. Then wins for Bolton over Middlesbrough at 23/20 and West Ham over Sunderland at 23/20. A bold prediction is Fulham to beat Liverpool at 5/1, but i think Liverpool will win this one.
Other predictions are Arsenal to beat Man city, Chelsea to win at Newcastle, Stoke to beat W.B.A, Everton to beat Wigan and Man Utd to overcome Villa (I'm sorry to say).
Jenson Button is on pole again for the Grand Prix at the weekend and is 7/4 to make it two wins out of two.
Good luck with this weekends predictions.

Let Down

From the mid-week selections that i made, i had good success with six winners compared to only two losers. But i went for trying to win some money and Northern Ireland won when i called a draw, and Italy let me down in the five timer. I have some good bets for the football today and tomorrow so hopefully we can boost those winnings. Oh and just a congratulations to England in the cricket for winning the one day series in the West Indies, just as i predicted!!

Tips for the National

OK I've been checking out the form for the National tomorrow, and it is a bit of a lottery but here goes. My choice is Black Apalachi currently priced around 14/1, this horse won over the course in November so knows his way round, it has a massive chance especially if we get a little rain before the race.

My dad has gone for Rambling Minster priced around 10/1, has good form of late and will be a low weight which always helps. I will be back tomorrow with football and rugby predictions.

Midweek Internationals and final 1 day international

The football looks pretty straight forward tonight, so not much money to be made. I quite like the look of a draw between Northern Ireland and Slovenia at 11/5, should be worth a bet. Also you could do a 5 timer with England, Scotland, Italy, France and Brazil to win at 11/5, this also looks a good bet.

Other than that i expect Germany to win in Wales, and that's it for the home nations.

In the cricket on Friday, it really could go either way, but I'm backing England to win and come out of the tour to the West Indies with just a little bit of pride.

I'd also like to wish Alan Shearer good look with his new job at Newcastle, he really is going to need it, I've put a picture up of him before he gets all the grey hairs through stress!!