The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Monte's Multiple: Australia have earned the right to take this one easy

Jaymes Monte / 10 November 2009 / Leave a comment

Australia in unassailable position, Higgins and Trump can share the spoils and Rochdale have the mental edge. Jaymes Monte picks out his three midweek selections for his weekly treble.......Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 13 February 2008 / Leave a comment

Brotherly feuds have been around ever since Cain and Abel squabbled over some sacrifices in the Old Testament. Last week the latest in the series came courtesy of my namesake Jamie (Murray) and older brother Andy. It all revolved around...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 31 January 2008 / Leave a comment

"In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea, and he told us of his life, in the land of submarines". These are of course the opening lines of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and I've...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 23 January 2008 / Leave a comment

I read an interesting interview with Michael Essien a couple of weeks ago. At the very start, the interviewer asked Chelsea's midfield enforcer if he had a nickname. "Yes, they call me Bison", he replied. "Would you rather I called...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 15 January 2008 / Leave a comment

Tennis has the "Magician" Fabrice Santoro, a player whose entire gameplan revolves around frustrating his stronger and more talented opponents into making unforced errors. Understimate the 35-year old at your peril though as Agassi, Sampras and most notably Marat Safin...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

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

Turkish Delights allegedly get their name from the word ahbisa (jelly), the ancestor of Turkish rahat lokum, the long name for the sweet. When an English traveller visited Turkey in the 19th century and tasted the delicacy, he was so...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 27 November 2007 / Leave a comment

A friend of mine once applied for a job as a black cab driver. The requirements were that he didn't have a criminal record, spoke perfect English and had a valid, clean driving licence. This was a guy who had...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 20 November 2007 / Leave a comment

It's tough to keep a good man down but it's even tougher to keep a good Pacman down. After a disastrous start to the Pacman's Midweek Multiple with a barren four weeks, last week's selection came up trumps at odds...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 13 November 2007 / Leave a comment

It's a little-known fact that Charlie Chaplin once came third in a contest aiming to find the best lookalike to...Charlie Chaplin. And that a team of under-nourished prisoners of war featuring a cockney actor and some guy called Sly recovered...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 06 November 2007 / 9 Comments

Since penning my thoughts on a suitable selection on the Betfair Multiples product this time last week, I have put on a stone in weight and wandered around the streets aimlessly, head down and answering monosyllabically when spoken to. The...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

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

History is littered with great "big and little" partnerships: Asterix and Obelix, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker and Big Sam and Little Sam. But that's the whole point about these partnerships: they only work as a unit, not when they're...Read more »

The Pacman's Midweek Multiple

Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 22 October 2007 / Leave a comment

I didn't exactly get off to the greatest of starts last week with my multiples column, having tipped a lay of Russia in the football and a back of Pakistan in the 1st ODI against South Africa. But I'm not...Read more »

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Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 16 October 2007 / Leave a comment

Watching Inzamam play his last full international on Friday brought about an end to an era for me as he's been around ever since I've been watching cricket. People may question his attitude, fitness, running between the wickets and anything...Read more »