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February 2010 Blog Posts (10)

CALL THE SHOTS - your own Premiership selections here

FootballMad, the local footie tipster and fan of the Matchbet betting exchange system, in a rare public uttering captured by your correspondent a moment ago, tells us:

"After a few weeks' absense, I am resuming my predictions on the Premiership, and as usual I have bet equal amounts on all my…

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Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 27, 2010 at 12:43 — 1 Comment

Essential Betting Information!

What we all need in these awful winter racing days is: ESSENTIAL BETTING INFO.

This is always to be found with our buddies at BetCatalyst, the successful racing site growing rapidly under Richard Stoddart's skilled hand.

Richard's racing pedigree is undoubted: he is a former Senior Trading…

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Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 27, 2010 at 9:22 — No Comments

Footie Tipsters fighting back on Matchbet betting exchange

Stupefy has had a better Premiership this weekend, with three correct forecasts, out of five matches. on Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal. Stupefy didnt, though, anticipate Villa's goalfest over Burnley; nor Everton's handsome margin over ManU.

FootballMad, our resident specialist, was raving elsewhere and didnt post his forecasts; we eagerly await his next pronouncements. Remember, look at… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 22, 2010 at 8:39 — No Comments

Hot tip from Shrewsbury expert

Urgent message from Graham in Shrewsbury, with IMPORTANT NEWS for the membership:

Morning Gordon, Yes I love my racing and definitely enjoy a bet. My main selection for today is Elusive Fame in the 3.30 at Southwell

(theres nothing like putting your head in the noose) 3-1 I think is a

sporting price. I also enjoy a bet on football - silly things like

corners and bookings. Big match tonight with Becks facing Man U looking

forward to that one. Good Luck… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 16, 2010 at 11:40 — No Comments

Three cheers for our founder

John Tuohy ('J2E') is back home, sitting up and taking notice, and I spoke to the great man yesterday evening. We are meeting on Thursday and I hope this will lead to a gentle resumption of his skilled and pithy comments on sporting matters.

He is having intensive physio exercises on his typing finger, so no eacuses there.

As a focus for Betfair tales and news, he is widely renowned. With the BF… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 16, 2010 at 8:41 — No Comments

St Valentine's Day Massacre coming up? PRIZES ON OFFER

What fate awaits the footie tipsters over on www.matchbet.com/tipsters tomorrow?

Their launch/relaunch last week was "red all over" - just getting my sights in, mouthed FootballMad through gritted teeth. His buddy, Stupefy, was nowhere to be seen in the editorial corridors of The Sports Exchange [quite right, hallowed… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 12, 2010 at 11:52 — 4 Comments

Cheltenham Festival briefing

Great rundown on the opportunities at Cheltenham in 4+ weeks' time, from Richard at www.betcatalyst.com. Well worth a trot round the course. I hope he's going to update it soon?

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 12, 2010 at 11:43 — No Comments

FootballMad raves again...was it worth it?

FootballMad, our Monster Raving Loonie FootballMad footie tipster, has emerged from his mauling in the first months of the Premier season. Brave man! Was it worth it, one has to ask. Visit the forecastson our Matchbet buddies' site at www.matchbet.com/tipster and judge for yourself.

He's been joined by a new independent tipster, Stupefy (sic), who doesnt appear, on fhis first outing, to have quite got… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 7, 2010 at 22:20 — No Comments

Recreational Drugs anyone?

I am being urged by a doctor friend of mine to eschew alcohol (my recreational drug of long habit) in favour of other substances. It'll probably improve my blogging style [that wont be difficult - Ed] and will do me less damage, Dr Drug tells me. He's a big cheese in the medical uses of cannabis and opium - prescribed not proscribed, I suppose.

This is all a closed book to me, I was learning to be a chartered accountant during the Flower Power days and it all passed me by, any tips… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 7, 2010 at 13:23 — No Comments

Snouts in the Trough

I am indebted to Guido Fawkes, proprietor of the non-party-san political blog, for exhaustive coverage of the financial affairs of our elected Members. Read him on www.order-order.com (or something similar) and in The Thunderer column of The Times yesterday (not his best form, I have to admit, perhaps a bit cowed by the printed page).

The sheer dexterity and penny-pinching ingenuity of these average sort… Continue

Added by Gordon McIvor Wilson on February 7, 2010 at 10:26 — No Comments