I don’t think Liverpool playing at Eastlands will through the same sort of barrage at them as Spurs did, but neither do I expect City’s offense to be at the height of their powers this early in the season.
It is a well known fact that winning in the premiership the weekend after a champions league game is a difficult task and teams like Manchester United and Chelsea have huge squads and lots of champions league experience to help them overcome this particular disadvantage and the often don’t get it right
lay villa, city or celtic in the europa leauge tonight
There are four british short priced favourites playing in the Europa Cup this Thursday. In these situations the bookies expect to take a load of money on the UK team and hardly anything at all on the plucky foreigner. It therefore goes without saying that there is value elsewhere. The same is always true when England play, they are too short with UK bookies and should either be backed with a foreign bookie or opposed. A fun bet I sometimes [...]
Tottenham v Manchester City (1245 BST) Gambling Man has written a lot about Man City over the summer so it should come as no surprise that my first match review for the premiership season should be on Man City’s visit to White Hart Lane. I still believe City are too short for the premiership but that doesn’t mean they wont be a big threat where ever they play. The first game of the Barclays Premier League matches last season’s fourth [...]
Gambling Man has heavily opposed this bet and today Stan James have come out with us to0 – they are offering to refund all losing stakes (as a free bet up to £250) placed between now and the start of the Premier League season on the outright market if Manchester City win the title.
The top 3 in the market are Rooney, Drogba and Torres (what no Heskey?) but 5 of the next 6 don’t even play for a Premiership team yet including Diego Forlan at 10-1
The fact that Mancini’s men never looked like doing this would suggest that as a manager, a team and a club; Man City have some way to go before they can justify such a short price
