Cos it's not just Guardian podcasters who know about world football...

Regular readers of our betting tips (all four of you), will know that we're not the big bucks gambling type. We're more the subtle “quid here, two quid there, fingers crossed a 30/1 accumulator comes in” punter.

Well not tonight. Because we reckon we've... [More]

Money, money, money...mo-ney!

We've got a good feeling about this one chaps and chapesses, which is why we're sharing it with the world/our minimal readership/no one (delete as appropriate). We're having a bit of Brentford, Notts County, Scunthorpe and QPR, not to mention a bit of a wussy approach by having both the Inter win and the draw in the "Big One". Hey, at least we're not backing the favourites from Catalonia. As you see below, should all five come in, a few quid wins £85, one wrong gets a little over our money back...

What? It's our Champions League punt of course. What did you think?

It's the biggy. The one the football world has been waiting for. Two sides who play the game just as it should be played duel this evening in a game being billed as a battle of the football purists. So who will reign? We don't know, we're not watching Forest Green v Barrow, we've got ITV1 on for some little shindig between a team consisting of mainly Spanish and French players masquerading as an English club and a South American side pretending to be a Spanish institution. Should be a giggle. Especially when there's a considerable amount of moolah (see: £9.99) on it...

Wor Bets

Eight games, eight predictions = muchos cashos...

Feeling lucky punk? Good, then you're in the right place. Because ahead of tonight's eight Europa League second-leg ties we've decided to have a bash at predicting each and every outcome in a beasty eight-fold. See below... [More]

Can the Arse do it without Fab? We reckonzzzz...

This evening the Arsenal host Porto without the guidance and guile of their talismanic captain - take a bow Sir Cesc of Fabregas. The stats, signs and possibly even the stars seem to be against them, not having overturned a first-leg deficit in the CL in nine attempts. However, priced at 4/6 (with Ladbrokes) to qualify this eve, you just gotta fancy'em.
 
Bosh them in a double with a recently Neil Warnocked QPR, who face Plymouth and are massively overpriced at 4/5. They should be a 1/2 shot. The double pays 2/1. Thank us when it comes in. Scold us when Porto's three-pronged attack does a job on Campbell and co...

Dave's Book Club was a bit of a struggle...

Everybody hates a gloater...

So we won't say a thing.

We did tell you though...

International friendlies = betting madness. Not that it's stopped us...

International friendlies are shite. There, we said it. Managers pick silly teams full of silly players, meaning that unless you do thorough research it's a bit of a shot in the dark. And we just don't do research. Conversely, we love shooting in the dark, so we're getting tucked in anyway...

It's the long-awaited return of our piss-poor bets...

Apologies for our long absence from tipping, we'd like to tell you that we've given it up as a New Year's resolution, but that would be a lie - as one look at our Betfair balance would prove. Still, we should've probably been in touch about our tenner on Egypt to win the African Nations at 10/1 before the tournament, which is looking peachy at the minute. Nonetheless, nobody likes a smug post-event punter, so we're back with our bets this Saturday, providing you with a weekly betting scapegoat...

We've got a deep-sea diver on a four-fold today, and we fancy it...

Shakin Stevens, he was a laugh wasn't he? Also, a bit of a bullshitter. "Snow is falling, all around us, children playing, having fun." Maybe so Shaky, but if those children have no local football team to go and watch because the sodding snow has had their game called off, then we'd beg to differ about the "fun" part to those lyrics.

Anyway, it means today that there's already big games called off at Blackpool and Cardiff, not to mention a whole host of League Two fixtures. So our weather warning today isn't to watch your step, it's to make sure you don't frustratingly back a game that's been curtailed by the white shit from the sky. So fingers crossed our four-fold, which we're pretty confident about (always a worrying sign), will not be affected: [More]

We think this must be what a hotstreak looks like...

Last Wednesday, thanks to some shoddy Champions League performances, we won £240. Yesterday, thanks to a fiver double on Man Utd and Villa, we won £25. Admittedly, it pales in comparison to the first effort, but nonetheless we make that two betting wins in a row.

But, like a gambling addict trying to explain to his wife why they have to re-mortgage the house, we won't discuss our losses, that's just uncool. Instead, we'll spunk some of our winnings on yet more bets, given that there's more Carling Cup action tonight coupled with everyone's favourite secondary European competition, the Europa League. So here are our picks for this eve: