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Football Betting: English football in good health

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 07 June 2009 / Leave a comment

As England's senior team already have one foot on the plane to South Africa and the Under 21s look in good nick ahead of the European Championships next week, Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco reflects on the general state of English...Read more »

Premiership Betting: Déjà Vu and my own view on who will win the Premiership

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 14 September 2008 / Leave a comment

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco on how Premiership events so far have an all too-familiar look to him and why he won't be making the same mistake as last year....Read more »

Carlos Queiroz and getting the big decisions right

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 13 July 2008 / 1 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco discusses the factors that led to Carlos Queiroz walking out on Man Utd to become the manager of Portugal and how important it is to get such decisons right......Read more »

How Man Utd won the 2007/8 Premiership

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 17 April 2008 / 3 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco thinks Man Utd's name is as good on the trophy but what were the decisive factors in the boys in red delivering the goods again?...Read more »

Reflecting on the state of the "Beautiful Game"

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 07 April 2008 / 1 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco spends the whole weekend watching football and reflects on the state of the modern game......Read more »

If England don't do it under Capello, they never will

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 26 March 2008 / 3 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco praises the FA for securing the services of Fabio Capello and separates the wheat from the chaff in England's squad to face France on Wednesday night...Read more »

I'll miss pantomime villain Robbie Savage when he's gone

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 17 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco looks at the career of Robbie Savage and wonders whether all the bad press is justified as his Derby County side prepare for life in The Championship...Read more »

Going, going, gone! All Premiership players for sale...

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 26 February 2008 / Leave a comment

With the Indian Premier League of cricket auctioning off the world's best players, Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco wonders what would happen if the same was done with Premiership players...Read more »

Why I hate the FA Cup

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 08 January 2008 / 5 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco on why you can bet your life that he won't be talking about the romance of the FA Cup.......Read more »

Cindy Crawford and being wrong about Arsenal

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 30 December 2007 / Leave a comment

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco on why Arsenal's superb season caught him completely off-guard...Read more »

Lampard is the most overrated player in the Premiership

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 17 December 2007 / 4 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco tells us why Lampard is not half the player he is made out to be, and it has nothing to do with his weight......Read more »

The concept of betting value and finding your niche market

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 11 December 2007 / Leave a comment

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco looks at what is value in football betting, specialising on a particular market and losing Damien Duff...Read more »

Greed is threatening to ruin the beautiful game

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 04 December 2007 / 1 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco recalls the "Bogarde" affair, the Ronaldo World Cup 98 incident and the part played by the FA's greed as England failed to qualify for Euro 2008...Read more »

Capello or Mourinho are the FA's best bets

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 27 November 2007 / 2 Comments

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco on why the FA shouldn't look beyond the two favourites on Betfair's next England manager market...Read more »