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Week off work. Tickets booked. B&B sorted. Wallet full of cash. Can't wait. So anyone with any good ante post bets on? The Good A sizeable bet on Punjabi at around 7/2 to get placed in the Champion Hurdle. Won one and placed once in the Champion Hurdle, surely even now at 2's to place it is a...

Anyone here help settle a bet? Back at the Goldstone, our oversized and overaged ball boy, Keith Cuss, decided that rather than return the ball to the onrushing Man City player he would do a rather skillful back flick header into the stand. Here's the bet : Did he head it back into the East or...

Has anyone ever done this? Thinking of entering a team this year and this is *supposed* to be a good one for first timers The Blenheim Triathlon

Reading the pre match Ryder Cup blurb I came across this little beauty. Ian Poulter who constantly acts like the cat that has got the cream, thinks he is the 2nd best golfer in the world and all round show off has a missus that looks like this. Is it me or were you also expecting a Doris who...

"I pinned the poem, 'If', by Rudyard Kipling, up in the dressing room but I don't think any of the players could make head or tail of it. I left it up for an hour but took it down before it got defaced." Luton manager Mike Newell thanks Kipling for ending his side's run of seven successive...

Up until the start of the week, I was using Betfair Poker as my game of choice. Unfortunately, they have released an upgrade, which causes the software to crash, Dollar betting only and requires the eyesight of a predatory bird to be able to read the screen. Betfair used to be the online...

Has anyone used any of the Trade magazines to sell their car? The trade in prices I’ve been offered have been nothing short of woeful so I’m selling mine privately. I’m currently thinking about putting an ad in either Autotrader or the What Car? Website. Just wondered if anyone has any good or...

HUMILIATION — for Kazakhstan’s leading television reporter. With a little help from Sacha Baron Cohen, The Times reached Borat yesterday, who told us he was upset that hoardings for his new film featured prominently in pictures of Paul Robinson’s bobble blunder. “I am very embarrass that...

SWITZERLAND 1. Pascal Zuberbuhler 2. Johan Djourou 3. Ludovic Magnin 20. Patrick Muller 23. Philipp Degen 6. Johann Vogel 7. Ricardo Cabanas 8. Raphael Wicky 16. Tranquillo Barnetta 22. Hakan Yakin 9. Alexander Frei SUBS 12. Diego Benaglio (GK) 5. Xavier...

With the World Cup upon us, our TV’s will be full of exotic sounding foreigners who make Michael Owen and Paul Robinson sound positively dull. My questions is what would this lot be called if they were born here? The obvious ones are Thierry Henry : Terry Henry Robert Pires : Bob Pearce. I’ll...

Any minute now. Press conference live on SSN. I'll post here when it comes up. Beckham is currently tell us not to have a scrap with the Germans.

I’m going to the Premier league darts in Stevenage (wonderful place, Stevenage Leisure centre, its like the Royal Albert Hall) tonight, can’t wait. Just off to get a Tattoo and an England Shirt to fit in. More to the point, can anyone think of anything witty to write on those stupid cards that...

My Warwickshire home this morning is under a dusting of snow, meanwhile Radio reports of snow laying on the M1 near Sheffield. I suspect, that undersoil heating and an army of volunteers to clear snow on terraces is beyond Crewe so possibly this might be called off. Calling Staffs or Black...

After 3 (of 10) ends the Men's curling team are 2-0 down against the Germans. Boo. Interestingly, the German captain is called Andy Kapp. As someone mentioned yesterday, I am strangely addicted to this curious mix of cleaning and skating. At 4.30 today Shelley Rudman goes in the 'Skeleton...

Just checked the official site and QPR is now sold out. Should create something resembling an atmosphere on Boxing day. http://www.seagulls.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/LatestDetail/0,,10433~757363,00.html What is capacity now with the new seats installed?

My wife wants me to make a Chirstmas album but i'm Struggling to think of ANY Christmas songs that aren't shite. Other than the Pogues and Kirstly Mccall (The fairy tail of the speedboat of New York) and the Waitresses (Christmas Wrapping), I might have to resort to Slade unless I can think of...

Everyone you speak to has heard one. Some say No others say its a cert. The one I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend of the next door neighbour uncle who works in Planning or something is that ; 'Its a dead cert and directly linked to the Olympic bid. The Chinese have already booked it...

Is this on TV anywhere? I can't find it on Sky or Eurosport

16:00 this fortcoming Saturday What have the NSC gamblers done thier money on? I have backed Forest Gunner at Various odds from 34-1 downwards and currently stand to make 1333.37 if it wins - which sure as anything means it won't. I have also backed Strong Resolve for the missus who backed...

Cheltenham Tipster Day 2 This is my last internet access of the week, so here are my tips for days 2,3 and 4 as I will be there for the remainding days this week. I cannot believe I am almost in the lead with one winner, Hardy Eustace at that! Good luck everyone for days 2,3 & 4 it will be...