What are the odds Preston replace Phil with Bill? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day
Phil Brown was always going to leave Preston once winter hit – it was then that his position as manager became untannable.
After failing to save Preston from relegation last season and in the wake of a dismal run of form, Brown must have known he was baking in the Last-Chance Salon yet said his sacking came as a shock.
Bronze said he should have been given more time – £5 for three minutes is simply extortionate. He will now swap Deepdale for Deeptan.
In the race to replace him, Billy Davies is 13-10 favourite with Victor Chandler for reasons that escape me.
There can only be one winner – and, looking at the candidates, it sure as hell won’t be Preston.
To replace Brown (VC bet): 13-10 B Davies, 4-1 D Jones, 7-1 G Alexander, 8-1 S O’Driscoll, 12-1 D Unsworth, 14-1 bar.
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Luke Donald is No.1 in Europe, No.1 in America, and also world No.1 – but I really don’t fancy him for Christmas No.1.
Ultimately golfers are judged on one thing – winning Majors. Tiger Woods has 14, Rory McIlroy has one, and Donald has yet to break his duck.
In Grand Slam events, Donald is known as an also-ran but it could be worse – at my golf club I’m known as the guy who keeps switching the balls.
Boylesports are asking which of the three will next win a Major and I know who my money will be on – the loser.
The beauty of this bet for Boylesports is that they may never have to pay out on anyone, which reminds me of my days as the school bookie. I was 34 at the time.
Tiger followers were relieved to see him do the business a week or so ago but that was a false dawn. Her real name is Judy.
His first win in yonks came in the Chevron World Challenge in which only 17 participated – Tiger’s had larger orgies.
In fact, he remembers the time before he was famous when he went to orgies just for the grapes.
Donald ain’t an option because he always under-performs in Majors – and in other competitions when I back him.
That leaves McIlroy, whose triumph in last year’s US Open was the best result of his career – apart from nailing Caroline Wozniacki.
At 7-4, he’s crying out to be backed.
Next to win a Major (Boylesports): 5-4 T Woods, 7-4 R McIlroy, 5-2 L Donald.
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It promises to be a grim Christmas Day for anti-royalists, with both The King’s Speech and the Queen’s Speech on TV.
One’s an over-hyped monument to tedium with mediocre acting that seems to go on for ever. And so is the other.
She’s a clever girl is Her Maj.
She learned years ago that the only way to stay awake during a lengthy speech is to give it. She’s living proof that a woman’s word is never done.
Hills offer a tasty 11-10 for the annual boreathon to draw in more than nine million saps. In 1987 the audience was 28million and 15million in 1996.
This year it’s believed the ratings will include people who record it and watch it later – which will swell the original figure by none.
Talking of swelling the original figure, Her Maj is 11-2 with Hills NOT to mention Wills’ and Kate’s wedding and 4-1 with Ladbrokes to say the word “pregnant”.
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BET OF THE DAY
Petrol prices are so high nowadays, London cab drivers are taking the correct way to the airport.
Get on Cheltenham at 11-8 to win at Barnet on Friday.
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