The Betfair Football £10 Bet of the Day
Day 128: We're backing Nottingham Forest to lead Scunthorpe at half-time and full-time at [2.96]
You would have to be lacking in almost any compassion not to feel the slightest pang of sympathy for supporters who own season tickets at the worst home club in the top six tiers of English football, Championship strugglers Scunthorpe United.
Regulars at Glanford Park have only had one home league win to celebrate throughout the campaign and that came against fellow relegation battlers Crystal Palace in August, so it's not unthinkable that some fans were still on their summer holidays and missed the one moment of joy.
They simultaneously hold both the record for the worst Championship defence and attack, losing two of their last three in north Lincolnshire 5-1, and have been beaten in eight of their last nine games as hosts, trailing at half-time in five of the last six in which they've tasted defeat.
Their latest optimistic visitors, Nottingham Forest, are perfectly poised to take advantage of their habit to provide early gifts too given that all six of the goals that they've scored in their last four encounters have come before the break, one against Watford earlier this month as early as the first minute by Marcus Tudgay.
Forest have now gone ten matches without a loss in the Championship and Billy Davies will surely be targeting three points here as that result would take them past Cardiff and Norwich into the second automatic promotion spot, so [2.96] looks a great price for them to be ahead by half-time and hold on.
Our bet: We're backing Nottingham Forest to lead Scunthorpe at half-time and full-time at [2.96], meaning that - before factoring in commission - we stand to win £19.60. The same punt pays only £15 with Victor Chandler and SkyBet. Sign up for a new account now and have losing bets up to a total of £30 refunded for a week.
Total profit: £80.60
Published: 16 Feb 2011
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