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Saint turns sinner Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier has confessed he hatched a plan to cheat
bookies out of £10,000 during his playing days. The Sky Sports pundit got his mates to place bets
on the first throw-in of a 1995 Premier League match coming within 60 seconds. Le Tissier planned
to get the ball straight from [.
Interesting quotes from Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson about Real Madrid striker
Cristiano Ronaldo. Fergie sold Ronaldo to Madrid for £80million this summer but remains a big fan
of his former player.
Ronaldo has settled quickly into the Real Madrid lineup and he has scored seven goals already
this season.
If you are Paul Hart - by far the bookies' favorite to become the first sacked manager in the
Premier League this season - you would need a miracle to save Portsmouth from relegation at this
point. Four games into the new season, Pompey are yet to scrap up a single point, which is a clear
indicator of how the team roster was in desperate need of major bolstering on the final day of
transfers.
In the eyes of some bookies, at least Troubled Blue Sq Premier League outfit Chester City have put
their points deduction worries behind them and shot to the top of the table. That's according to
the FreeBetting.net site anyway. Thanks to Matt Fairgrieve for the spot.
When Ahmed Hassan wheeled away to celebrate scoring a 92nd minute equalizer against Trinidad and
Tobago, Bahrain believed they were on their way to the 2006 World Cup. Colombian ref Oscar Julian
Ruiz Acost had other ideas. The goal was of the Best Banks variety. The sort of goal no one wants
to see disallowed, especially when the forward's cheekiness is executed with such fine
precision.
Milan will take on Marseille in a few hours to kick off their 2009-10 Champions League campaign.
Milan are the bookies' favourite but not by much and this is not a surprise for a few reasons. One
is that Milan do not have a good record on the road in Europe. In their last ten matches [...]
Peter Reid has surpassed previous efforts at disinformational and disorderly discourse with two
interviews (one in the September issue of World Soccer Magazine and one in Theo Guardian this
weekend).
For the interview with World Soccer, Reid was manager of Thailand, a job that he combined with
punditry on BSkyB and for Coral/Eurobet Bookmakers, and things.