Football betting tips on who the favourites are to win this seasons Premier League
The Premier League is coming to its climax and is closer than ever before, realistically 4 teams are in with a shot of lifting the title. With 13 games remaining, bookies preseason favourites Manchester united are well a drift and are now 400/1 for the title! Looking at the current table Chelsea lead the way … Continue reading
Arbroath
Gayfield Park Saturday 3 March 2012 Scottish League Division 2 Arbroath 2 East Fife 2 Pretty Arbroath: birthplace of the smokie, Dominik Diamond and a 36-0 win for the local football club against Bon Accord in an 1885 Scottish Cup tie. Bon Accord had travelled the eighteen miles or so down the coast from Aberdeen, … Continue reading
ASV ASKÖ Salzburg
Toni-Kronreif-Sportzentrum Itzling Saturday 24 March 2012 Austrian 2. Landesliga – Nord ASV ASKÖ Salzburg 2 USK Hof 0 Two days in Vienna followed by an early morning train to Salzburg: what could go wrong? Every beer was “my last one” until I eventually left the bar in a taxi. The drinks had been plentiful since I … Continue reading
Aberdeen
Pittodrie Stadium Saturday 3 March 2012 Scottish Premier Division Aberdeen 1 Celtic 1 Northumbrian countryside disappeared as the early morning train continued over the border towards Edinburgh. Thirty minutes passed as I waited for the connecting train that would take me further north, towards Aberdeen, for what would be the first game of a Scottish … Continue reading
FC Viktoria Plzeň
Stadion města Plzně Sunday 23 October 2011 Czech 1. liga FC Viktoria Plzeň 4 FK Viktoria Žižkov 1 Spurred on by a seven goal early morning thriller at Admira Praha, we, this large groups of ours, waltzed from Metro to train platform. Apart from the Belgians who rolled into Burger King – “We don’t have them … Continue reading
On the road with Hebburn Town
Focus Scaffolding Sports Complex Saturday 10 March 2012 Northern League Division 2 Whitehaven 2 Hebburn Town 3 Onwards to Whitehaven… The bus pulls into the Hebburn Sports and Social Ground to be met by the committee team of chairman Billy Laffy; secretary Tom Derrick; treasurer John Bolam, who is off to the Sunderland game later … Continue reading
Northallerton Town
Regency Stadium Saturday 21 January 2012 Northern League Division 2 Northallerton Town 2 Birtley Town 3 A Northern League game can mean only one thing: mates and beers. OK, that’s technically two things or, if you wish to continue being pedantic, many more things as pies, chips, lager, spirits and wedding parties can also be … Continue reading
Gillford Park
Gillford Park Stadium Saturday 7 January 2012 Northern League Division 2 Gillford Park 4 Birtley Town 4 Steve Skinner makes and receives around fifty phone calls a day in the name of Gillford Park while sending out an additional 100 letters a week, looking for new sponsors, new funding, for the football club he helped … Continue reading
Dumbarton
Strathclyde Homes Stadium Monday 2 January 2012 Scottish League Division 2 Dumbarton 3 Arbroath 2 The opening game of 2012 for me and it had to be special. Fixture lists were scoured and suggestions were binned: Stalybridge Celtic was too far to travel on New Year’s Day with the expected hangover (though as it turned … Continue reading
Boldon C.A.
Boldon Colliery Welfare Saturday 3 December 2011 Wearside League Boldon C.A 2 Coxhoe Athletic 0 The South Tyne Alliance Cup Final played on Good Friday 1934 shouldn’t really be known as being significant, yet for Charlton Athletic the match between Boldon Villa and Pyman’s was the start of a goalkeeping career that would see a … Continue reading
Gannin' Away 