Author Archive: David Macleod

An insurance professional based in Edinburgh, Scotland, David Macleod is our local expert on Scottish Football. David is an avid footie fan, and is happiest crunching numbers to help write his Bettng on The Football page...

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Betting On The Football: March 25, 26, 27

| March 25, 2011 | 0 Comments

Our midweek betting set (22/23 March 2011) was a bit up and down, with our single and double coming in, but our treble and four-fold both failing. The really good news though is that our Long Term Betting Strategy (LTBS) bet came in when St Johnstone scraped through against SFL2 minnows Brechin City by the [...]

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Scottish Premier League Table As On March 21, 2011

| March 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

Here’s how the Scottish Premier League Table stands, as on March 21, 2011   Pos Team P W D L Pts F A 1 Celtic 28 21 4 3 67 61 17 2 Rangers 27 21 2 4 65 60 24 3 Hearts 30 18 4 8 58 44 28 4 Dundee United 29 12 [...]

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Betting On The Football: March 22, 23

| March 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

Our weekend betting set (19/20 March 2011) could have been better had the mighty Partick Thistle not inexplicably lost 1-0 at home to lowly Cowdenbeath, a game we had in our double, treble and fourfold.  But hey -  we won our single!! Again, as in the midweek, our Long Term Betting Strategy (LTBS) bet came [...]

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Betting On The Football: March 19, 20

| March 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

Disaster!!! Our midweek betting set (15/16 /17March 2011) was all over before the Manchester City game even kicked-off. Chelsea’s failure to beat FC Copenhagen at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night caused the disaster, because we had Chelsea to win in our single, our double, our treble, and our four-fold. The one chink of light was [...]

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Scottish League Cup Final Preview: Celtic Vs Rangers

| March 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kick Off:- 15:00 GMT, Sunday 20 March 2011 Hampden Park, Glasgow It has now been just over two weeks since the infamous Scottish Cup encounter between these clubs where we had bad fouls; verbal abuse between players and managers; near-brawls between Rangers Assistant Manager Ally McCoist and Celtic boss Neil Lennon; 10 bookings ( 3 [...]

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Scottish Premier League Preview: Kilmarnock Vs Motherwell

| March 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kick Off:- 15:00 GMT, Saturday 19 March 2011 Rugby Park, Kilmarnock Kilmarnock’s defeat at Ibrox on Saturday was only to be expected and we can’t read anything into it, other than it was probably closer than most people would have predicted. With only 1 home game in their last 5 they will be looking forward [...]

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Scottish Premier League Preview: Hearts vs St Mirren

| March 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kick Off:- 15:00 GMT, Wednesday 19 March 2011 Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh Third vs fourth clash, although fourth-placed Killie are miles (16 points) behind the Jambos. Much everybody outside of Tynecastle believes that the Hearts title challenge is over following their recent defeats in Glasgow to the Old Firm, but manager Jim Jeffries would never subscribe [...]

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Scottish Premier League Preview: Dundee United Vs Inverness CT

| March 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kick Off:- 15:00 GMT, Wednesday 19 March 2011 Tannadice Stadium, Dundee Dundee United boss Peter Houston took a lot of positives from his team’s performance in the Cup draw with Motherwell, including an outstanding midfield performance from Danny Swanson, and a superb overhead-kick goal from the always-excellent David Goodwillie. The Arabs will certainly be looking [...]

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Scottish Premier League Preview: Hamilton Academical Vs St Johnstone

| March 17, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kick Off:- 15:00 GMT, Saturday 19 March 2011 New Douglas Park, Hamilton With just one point from their last 5 games, and with an increasingly despondent-looking squad of players, Accies are really looking doomed now. Any idea that punters may have had that the undoubted talent in manager Billy Reid’s squad would eventually come to [...]

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Which Curry Do You Want — The Boycott Or The Tendulkar?

| March 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

This is a story from The Herald (newspaper) Diary. Matt Vallance recalls that when the great batsman Sachin Tendulkar was playing for Yorkshire, a Bradford curry house offered two special curries: the Boycott and the Tendulkar. “Both,” says Matt, “gave you the runs, but you got them faster if you had the Tendulkar.”

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