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December 2009 - Football Food For Thought

Football Food For Thought. Opinions and thoughts from the betting.betfair team from the Premier League to the Champions League to the World Cup. This is where opinions come to live and whatever your football PoV it is sure to disagree with someone here!

Premier League Betting: Why the English think management is an Italian job

Mancini is dressed for success.

First it was the Americans with their chewing gum and nylons, now it is the Italians who are over here and over-exposed. Dan 'The Betting Man' Fitch looks at the merits of Capello, Zola, Ancelotti...

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Dan Fitch

29 Dec 2009

Premier League At Christmas: What to buy the footballer who has everything?

Mr Wood is ready to see you now Arsene

One of the toughest things about Christmas is what to buy people, especially when they earn £100,000 a week. Dan 'The Betting Man' Fitch is on hand with some advice for those having to buy...

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Dan Fitch

22 Dec 2009

Premier League Betting: Bellamy the player was punished for being Bellamy the person

Craig Bellamy sees red but whereas the fiery striker may not he everyone's cup of tea, he didn't deserve to be dismissed

Frank Gregan dissects the controversial sending-off of Craig Bellamy at the weekend and wonders whether it was a case of the Welshman's reputation unfairly costing him......

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Frank Gregan

16 Dec 2009

Premier League Betting: Why Harry the Scrooge is right to cancel Xmas

Ledley King was arrested after a drunken night out, whilst Peter Crouch was pictured hanging his head out of a convertible in the wee hours and Giovani Dos santos was pictured passed out on the pavment after Spurs' X-mas bash last year.

The players at Tottenham are not going to be given a Christmas party this year. After their display against Wolves, Dan 'The Betting Man' Fitch doesn't believe they deserve one....

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Dan Fitch

15 Dec 2009

Premier League Betting: Putting Frank Lampard on the spot

Frank Lampard missed a late penalty against Manchester City on Saturday afternoon which cost his side at least a point. Frank Gregan wonders whether the blame lay with the England man or the linesman who...

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Frank Gregan

9 Dec 2009

He may have been the Best but he wouldn't cut the mustard these days

Paul Moon looks back at the career highs and off-field lows of the great George Best and wonders whether the wing wizard would have "made it" in the days of regimented diets, alcohol bans and...

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Paul Moon

8 Dec 2009

Master Of The Multiple? Then get in our special league and prove it

£40,000 booty up for grabs for punters who show their punting prowess in our new game...

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Joe Dyer

8 Dec 2009

Premier League Betting: Managers need to get physical to become a hit

After the reported fight between Stoke City's Tony Pulis and James Beattie, Dan 'The Betting Man' Fitch examines just what motivates managers to get physical....

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Dan Fitch

8 Dec 2009

Premier League Betting: Bullard The Jester Is No Joke For Hull

Jimmy Bullard is the undisputed comedy king of the Premier League. Dan 'The Betting Man' Fitch looks at his importance to Hull and other football funnymen....

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Dan Fitch

1 Dec 2009