I'm not Kean on Steve's job chances - Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

By Derek McGovern in Betting Blog

Published 23:00 24/06/11

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Statistics say that 25 per cent of Premier League managers will lose their jobs during the course of next season – a further sign that the economy has stalled.

Five went last season and five the season before – I have a suspicion it was the same five.

That’s a hell of a turnover but Premier League clubs have a hell of a turnover.

Directors of the top 10 clubs expect their managers to be winning trophies. Directors of the bottom 10 expect their managers to keep them up. Some clubs are going to be disappointed. Usually it’s West Ham.

I’ve done some checking and if over the last two seasons you’d backed every manager in the Premier League not to be in their job come the end of the campaign, you’d be me.

Victor Chandler are betting on how many top-flight bosses pick up their P45 before they pick up their summer-holiday suitcases and make five or six their 11-10 favourite.

I’d be tempted, however, to have a dabble on six or more at 2-1. That way you can cheer every time a manager gets the boot when your normal reaction would be to cheer only if Fergie gets the boot.

Chandler are also betting on which gaffer is first shown the exit door and my advice here is the same as it always is – if you have any red-hot information, please tell me.

Blackburn’s Steve Kean is 9-4 favourite for the chop, but be warned that in the last seven seasons some long-priced outsiders have won the Sack Race, including Jose Mourinho (left, at 33-1), Iain Dowie (25-1), Paul Sturrock (20-1) and Martin O’Neill (16-1).

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Bet of the Day

One night I had sex with a girl from one o’clock to five past two. I love it when they put the clocks forward. Get on Nicolas Almagro at 11-8 to beat Mikhail Youzhny at Wimbledon today.

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The iconic jacket Michael Jackson wore in his hit video Thriller is going under the hammer this weekend.

Bidders at the auction won’t put their hand up to signal an increased offer. Instead they have been instructed to theatrically grab the crotch, preferably their own.

It’s one of many Jacko items up for sale in ­Hollywood, along with a fedora, a glove, and three noses, one black.

Auctioneers reckon bidding could well go through the roof and even dangle over the balcony, that’s how popular Jacko (inset) was.

He was a black performer who whites could relate to, and then, later in life, a white performer who blacks could relate to.

The ground-breaking Thriller video turned Jacko into the biggest-selling artist of all time. It also turned him into a zombie.

Bookies Victor Chandler offer 5-4 that Jackson’s iconic red jacket is flogged for more than $600,000 (£376,000) and 2-1 that it fetches less than $400,000 (£250,000).

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GEORGE CLOONEY is back on the market but only gorgeous women who like pot-bellied pigs need apply.

Pot-bellied women need apply triple make-up.

Clooney split with drop-dead gorgeous Italian model Elisabetta Canalis when she mentioned the ‘B’ word that sends shivers down his spine – Batman.

Lizzie talked of babies and marriage and George was Out Of Sight before you could say Good Night And Good Luck.

Most of the time women really are their own worst enemy – but they still blame men. Hills quote just 11-8 for Clooney’s next girlfriend to be in her 20s. There’s a name for men in their 50s who date 20-somethings – jammy gits.

A teenage girlfriend is a 12-1 chance and there’s a name for men in their 50s who date teenage girls – billionaires.

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