Sporting insight for this week’s betting from Paul Chandler-Burns (commonly known as PCB) – a professional gambler, racing pundit and member of the Secret Betting Club team. In football seasons past, the Saturday ritual for punters has inevitably meant  getting the bets on before heading off to a match with one ear pressed to a [...]

Where now for football’s want away starts? No moves yet for Cesc Fabgreas, Luka Modric, Samir Nasri or Carlos Tevez. I had expected Tevez to join Real Madrid, which is priced at 9/2 with Blue Square and 888Sport, if he was going to go anywhere in Europe but Inter Milan are now the favourites with [...]

Welcome to our new column from Scott Armstrong of The Sportsman, who will be providing a rundown of all the best weekend racing action every Friday.  Scott is a proven racing expert, thanks to his work at http://www.thesportsman.org.uk/ and has a keen eye for racing value, especially in the big feature races. Glorious Goodwood comes to an [...]

Welcome to our new column from Scott Armstrong of The Sportsman, this column recaps on last week’s action.  Scott is a proven racing expert, thanks to his work at http://www.thesportsman.org.uk/ and has a keen eye for racing value, especially in the big feature races. The weekends’s racing was overshadowed with the death of Rewilding in the King [...]

It is often said that the quickest route to the poorhouse is to chase your losses backing unraced two year old horses on their debuts. It is a good point well made, but that doesn’t mean you should dismiss inexperienced thoroughbreds entirely. It is well known that the biggest improvement that these youngsters make comes [...]

Welcome to our new column from Scott Armstrong of The Sportsman, who will be providing a rundown of all the best weekend racing action every Friday. He will also return each Monday with a follow-up analysis of how the weekend unfolded – look out for that on the SBC Blog. Scott is a proven racing [...]

This week has been a particularly difficult week in terms of transfer rumours, largely due to the fact so many teams are away on tour. That said, stuff has still been happening and it is just a case of sifting through it as we edge towards a comprehensive picture of each side’s squad. I have [...]

If we are to take a lesson from a very low key sporting week it is that patience is really has to be one of the key betting virtues. As punters we all want to win every week and see the bank balance ticking upwards. When there’s nothing doing we want to force the pace [...]

It seems every week the sagas involving Carlos Tevez, Luka Modric, Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas take new twists and turns so I’ll cover these four before moving on and getting into other, faster moving, speculation. Tevez – He wants to go, City have set a figure of £50million and no one is willing to [...]

We all know that specialisation is the key to winning money betting but how do we know where we should best apply our energies? That’s a question I’ve been giving some thought to not least because of a thought-provoking interview in the current SBC mag which is out today. Ben Aitken is certainly someone with [...]