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[The Camel]

Reminder - we are involved in the Peterborough - Brighton game tonight, too.

We badly want Brighton to win.

And we want Danny Swanson to score for Peterborough.

Between those, we might get there.

Some weird stats on the game, from BBC Sport.....

• Brighton are chasing a sixth successive victory over Peterborough.

• Posh have scored just two goals in five league meetings against the Sussex club.

• Peterborough are on the longest current unbeaten streak in the Championship of nine games (W4, ), yet find themselves just one place and one point above the relegation zone with four to play.

• No club has lost more home games in this division than the 10 of Posh, and they've only managed two clean sheets at London Road.

• Fifth-placed Brighton are on a five-match run without defeat (W2, ), and are two points better off than fellow play-off challengers Nottingham Forest, who are in seventh.



 The Seagulls have drawn an unequalled 17 of their 42 league games, and are the only club with as few as nine defeats in this division, with the exception of leaders Cardiff, who've also lost nine.

• Gus Poyet has not seen his side lose a league game from a winning position this season, but neither has he witnessed them winning one from a losing predicament.

Meh, I'd take a point happily tonight.

Even a defeat, after the way the other challengers results have been going of late, wouldn't be too disastrous.

Just making sure Ulloa doesn't get injured tonight is my priority!

[TightEnd]

Another IPL choke, this time the biggest of the lot as Bangalore, go from 129-3 chasing 153 against the winless Delhi Diabolicals to end at 152 and take it to a Super-Over

I have a theory, 48 hours in gestation in my shell-like, as to what is happening here....and it ain't that great for the integrity of this competition

its about keeping the teams at the bottom in the hunt for the final four for gate receipts, TV audiences etc etc, until much later in the 16 game round robin phase....

Having watched a lot of cricket over 30 years....something just isn't right, I smell it in my bones.

If these spidey senses are right, Delhi win the Super Over here

[tikay]

Another IPL choke, this time the biggest of the lot as Bangalore, go from 129-3 chasing 153 against the winless Delhi Diabolicals to end at 152 and take it to a Super-Over

I have a theory, 48 hours in gestation in my shell-like, as to what is happening here....and it ain't that great for the integrity of this competition

its about keeping the teams at the bottom in the hunt for the final four for gate receipts, TV audiences etc etc, until much later in the 16 game round robin phase....

Having watched a lot of cricket over 30 years....something just isn't right, I smell it in my bones.

If these spidey senses are right, Delhi win the Super Over here

The problem with that theory is that I assume a LOT of the team, or teams, would need to be in on the coup, & I'm not sure that 6 or more Pro Cricketers are capable of keeping schtum. One or two, yes, but it really needs more, surely? It is nothing new in cricket, but I'm not sure this particular one adds up.

[TightEnd]

A couple of players per team is all it needs

Unlikely, I accept

[Graham C]

I should also add that I had a house guest for the weekend, & I needed to spend a little time up the allotment.

That's gotta be code for something surely !

[TightEnd]

Nah, Delhi are just a disappointment then :-)

[Karabiner]

I should also add that I had a house guest for the weekend, & I needed to spend a little time up the allotment.

That's gotta be code for something surely !

 

[MajorMajor]

I honestly think its pressure over a very, very short format. Anything can happen and does! I love it!

[The Camel]

03: The corner drops to Swanson on the edge of the area and his half-volley is brilliantly stopped by Kuszczak. #PUFC 0 #BHAFC 0

[tikay]

Bolton, who we backed to be relegated, & are now Top 6, 1-0 up away to Leicester.

Not ideal for the Brighton bet, either.

[tikay]

03: The corner drops to Swanson on the edge of the area and his half-volley is brilliantly stopped by Kuszczak. #PUFC 0 #BHAFC 0

In Chompy we trust, right up there with Eso.

[The Camel]

Barnet going down.


 








Only 12 months too late.

[tikay]

Leicester go from 0-1 to 2-1 up in minutes.

Palace losing, which I think we like.

Blackburn winning, we don't like that.

[Tonji]

Quick question for maths guys please.

One firm offers EW 1/4 odds 4 places paid @ 18/1, another firm same but 3 places paid @ 22/1. Which is better value?

Thanks.

[tikay]

Forest a goal down, too.