Chelsea Travel to the scene of their 2008 Champions League final defeat to Manchester United on Tuesday when they face Spartak Moscow on a plastic pitch. Having dropped 5 points away from home in their last two games and are likely to start without Drogba, Lampard, Cole and Alex they look vulnerable. Spartak have a 100% record in the champions league so far, just like Chelsea, however they last played on Friday and have not had to travel. As we [...]
After 7 games the ratings table is starting to take shape. I always prefer to have a ratings system that reflects recent form and this can be seen with positive ratings compared with league position for Stoke, Blackburn and Everton. Gambling Man Rating league position value rating 1 Chelsea 1,588 1 0 2 Man Utd 1,359 3 1 3 Man City 1,291 2 -1 4 Stoke 1,124 7 3 5 Arsenal 1,095 4 -1 6 Blackburn 1,086 13 7 7 [...]
Shaky Arsenal vulnerable to high scoring Chelsea.
As promised here is the first of Gambling Man’s ratings table. They are up to date after the 6th round of matches and were based on a starting position which reflected last year’s league position and move the rating by taking a percentage of the oppositions start of day rating for the result and the goal supremacy. I have run a rudimentary analysis of the ratings position against the teams current league table and displayed it as a “heat index” [...]
Gambling Man reviews the Weekend
Gambling Man Previews the premiership game between Chelsea and Man City today
There will be big clues to the outcome of both the Premier League and the F1 World Championships this weekend when the F1 circus hits Singapore and Chelsea visit Manchester City. Despite a season of dominance in qualifying and in terms of raw pace by Red Bull the Milton Keynes team find themselves in a three way tie for the driver’s championship with both McLaren and Ferrari. Erratic driving by the undoubtedly quick Vettel has cost Red Bull dear and [...]
back the three of them in a treble
There are only a few days to go until the start of the Premier league season, the Charity Shield is behind us and the majority of the transfer information is now available to us so it is time to make our tips for the champions.
Chelsea are the bookies favourites with a best price 7/4, however they are on the slide and I know
Derby’s strength last season was their defence and they managed to shut out the opposition 16 times last season and a combination of the extra squad experience in the Championship, pressure from the TV cameras and a weak strike force against a strong defence leads me to think that 11/10 for Leeds is too short and there is value elsewhere.
