Winner Stays On / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 20 March 2011 /

If Only keeps on winning and quite frankly, we're pretty sick of him...

Have you ever been to a restaurant and discovered a dish you really love and vowed to eat it as often as possible? The second and third times it's still great but by the time you're stuffing your face with it for the seventh or eighth, it's not just that special anymore. You almost wish they took it off the menu or were all out of that day - you've had enough.

Or maybe there's a wonderful spot on a quiet, sleepy Greek island with white-washed villas where you can sit and watch an impossibly dreamy sunset every day. You hold hands with your loved one, sip a glass of chilled white wine whilst gazing into their eyes and think life doesn't get any better. You then return the next day and do it again and it's still great but after a week of doing it, it's just not the same. After a while you start to wish it rained while the sun set, or that the wine was warm or maybe even that the sun didn't set at all.

That's pretty much how we're starting to feel about If Only here at Betfair Towers. He was a breath of fresh air, a maverick tipster, a perennial winner, an entertainer and more importantly... he wasn't Paul Robinson. We were excited about his good run and we wished him all the best as he slowly but surely arrowed in on those five wins in a row. He did just that of course but then we noticed a change.

There was a slight spring in his step, a little bit of arrogance, a slightly nauseating unflappable self-belief. It's like he was football tipping's answer to Kevin Pietersen. So just as happened with Paul Robinson, we turned on him. And we urged others to do the same. We may or may not have leaked his address to others and may (or may not) have encouraged them to bombard him with hate mail. We stalked him through the streets of London and left random ladders hanging about and released black cats into his path. Let's hope all our efforts pay off. Let's hope he gets knocked out this week. If Only this weeks' contestant The Wat can take him out.

This week's matches:

Iraklis v Panionios
Sporting Lisbon v Leiria
Hearts v St Mirren

If Only's Selections

Iraklis v Panionios - Back the draw at 3.05
Sporting Lisbon v Leiria- Back Sporting on the -1 Asian Handicap at 2.1
Hearts v St Mirren - Back over 2.5 goals at 2.16

The Wats' Selections

Iraklis v Panionios - Back under 2.5 goals at 1.55
Sporting Lisbon v Leiria - Sporting Lisbon to be leading at half-time and winning at full-time at 2.56
Hearts v St Mirren - Back over 2.5 goals at 2.16

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