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Beat the Bookies: Week 23

By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 30/12/2010

WITH no football last week hardly, the only tip we could come up with (Sunderland to win at Old Trafford) proved well wide of the mark. At least it was long odds!

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As there has been so little football of late in the lower leagues and it's New Year's Day, our only advice is to expect the unexpected. It's a bit pointless looking at form as it's all so long ago. Effectively it's like the season almost starting again.

Our advice this week therefore is to back every Blue Square Premier game to be an away win.

We don't normally recommend multiple bets, as they are poor value if all placed with the same bookmaker, However this week is exceptional, so we are making ad exception!

  • AFC Wimbledon v HAYES
  • Altrincham v WREXHAM
  • Barrow v SOUTHPORT
  • Bath v NEWPORT
  • Cambridge Utd v HISTON
  • Crawley Town v EASTBOURNE BORO
  • Fleetwood Town v DARLINGTON
  • Gateshead v YORK
  • Grimsby v MANSFIELD
  • Kettering v TAMWORTH
  • Kidderminster v FOREST GREEN
  • Luton v RUSHDEN

    The total odds of all the matches coming in as away wins is over 11 million to 1 with Sky Bet! Therefore we recommend just betting on lesser perms, such as 4-folds or 5-folds.

    We've chosen this week to do all 4-folds, 495 combinations at 5p each, a total bet of £24.75. The maximum possible win is over £14K!

  • Monkey's bet: Grimsby to win 3-1 (17.0, Bet365)

    Selected Bets

  • All BSP matches to be away wins, 4-folds from 12 games, Various odds, Sky Bet

    Previous Fixed Odds Bets (1 or 2 bets, around £10 per week each of Rob's own money)

    DateBetOddsProfit/Loss
    22/12Sunderland to beat Man Utd13.00£-10.00
    09/12Redditch to beat Grimsby9.00£-10.00
    09/12Tottenham to beat Chelsea3.00£-10.00
    03/12Birmingham to beat Tottenham3.50£-10.00
    25/11Luton to beat Charlton7.00£-10.00
    25/11Newcastle to beat Chelsea5.50£-10.00
    18/11Histon to beat Luton11.00£-10.00
    18/11Birmingham to beat Chelsea5.50£45.00
    11/11West Ham to beat Blackpool1.95£-10.00
    11/11Crewe to beat Gillingham3.00£20.00
    05/11Dover to beat Gillingham7.00£60.00
    05/11FC United Manchester to beat Rochdale11.00£100.00
    28/10Altringham to beat Hayes4.00£30.00
    28/10Kidderminster to beat Southport2.60£-10.00
    28/10West Brom to beat Blackpool2.62£-10.00
    22/10Man Utd to beat Stoke1.74£7.40
    22/10Birmingham to beat Blackpool1.95£9.50
    15/10Man City to beat Blackpool1.62£6.15
    15/10Wrexham to beat Hayes2.63£16.25
    08/10Mansfield to beat Rushden3.70£-10.00
    08/10Darlington to beat Hayes1.73£-10.00
    01/10Wrexham to beat Darlington3.70£27.00
    01/10Newcastle to beat Man City8.50£-10.00
    24/09Kidderminster to beat AFC Wimbledon3.40£24.00
    24/09Newcastle to beat Stoke2.00£-10.00
    16/09Wolverhampton to beat Tottenham8.50£-10.00
    16/09Sunderland to beat Arsenal5.50£-10.00
    09/09Sunderland to beat Wigan3.00£-10.00
    09/09Histon to beat Crawley5.00£-10.00
    02/09Kettering to beat AFC Wimbledon3.00£-10.00
    02/09Oxford to beat Morecambe2.10£11.00
    27/08Morecambe to beat Gillingham2.25£-10.00
    27/08Stoke to beat Tottenham5.20£-10.00
    20/08Stoke to beat Tottenham3.30£-10.00
    20/08Altrincham to beat Crawley3.40£-10.00
    13/08Wolves to beat Stoke.2.38£13.75
    13/08Morecambe to beat Rotherham2.88£-10.00
    05/08Barnet to beat Chesterfield6.00£-10.00
    05/08Reading to beat Scunthorpe by 3 or more goals.5.00£-10.00
    Total £110.05

    Previous Monkey Bets (£10 per week of the Monkey's pretend money)

    DateBetOddsProfit/Loss
    18/11Grimsby to win 3-118.00£-10.00
    11/11Grimsby to win 3-119.00£-10.00
    08/11Grimsby to win 3-123.00£-10.00
    28/10Grimsby to win 3-115.00£-10.00
    22/10Grimsby to win 3-123.00£-10.00
    08/10Grimsby to win 3-121.00£-10.00
    06/10Grimsby to win 3-117.00£-10.00
    01/10Grimsby to win 3-121.00£-10.00
    28/09Grimsby to win 3-117.00£-10.00
    24/09Grimsby to win 3-117.00£-10.00
    10/09Grimsby to win 3-121.00£-10.00
    02/09Grimsby to win 3-123.00£-10.00
    30/08Grimsby to win 3-126.00£-10.00
    27/08Grimsby to win 3-126.00£-10.00
    22/08Grimsby to win 3-126.00£-10.00
    20/08Grimsby to win 3-112.00£-10.00
    13/08Grimsby to win 3-134.00£-10.00
    15/10Grimsby to win 3-113.00£-10.00
    Total £-180.00

    Every month I try and beat the bookies but now you can try and beat me - with pretend money. Just sign up and join the Grimsby Town team at OLBG.

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