Our Double Dutch predictions for this weekend No 6

It’s Christmas and with that comes the annual “Double Week” where everybody plays twice. What a nightmare! How do you keep up with 20 games over the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th? Not easy. This is of course in addition to the problems that still continue due to the heavy snow fall.

Currently, the one game that I advise avoiding is Blackpool vs Liverpool- As Blackpool are new to the Premiership they are the only team without under-pitch heating and this tends to make me want to ignore it all together – just in case.

I’m sure you’ll remember that last week we managed to save our stake by waiting until the last minute before placing our bets and we moved away from it due to the eather. My intention this week is t place this post now and then another on the 27th intime for the second round of games.

The first game come as a little surprise but I think that Fulham should do well at the Cottage against West Ham. In previous seasons this would have been a much more interesting fixture but West Ham have been woeful this season. Mark Hughes men are experts at getting a draw but I think that the return of Dembele should be enough to give them a win over a team who falls apart the second they leave their ground. You have to remember that in all but one season of the premiership the team who is bottom at Christmas is relegated and this well known statistic must way heavy on their mind. They’re currently best priced at 2 with Totesport (click here). I personally don’t think that the price of 1.53 on West Ham’s relegation is particularly generous although I realy can’t see how they’re going to dig themselves out of the mess their in. May be 1.44 on Avram Grant being the next manager to leave? It would appear that the borrowed time he’s living on is about at breaking point.

My second thoughts go to the Spurs / Aston Vila match and this should really be an interesting game. The strange thing to notice when placing a bet is that the odds offered on an event happening don’t represent the true odds of it happening – they control the money that’s placed on the event. You can imagine that the odds offered on Spurs to win will be lower on a bookmaker on Tottenham high road than in Birmingham as he’s far more likely to get a large number of Spurs related bets. I think that if there was ever a game that Spurs have to win then this is it. They currently are holding in 5th but they’ll be aware that to break the top four they need to start pushing now. Aston Villa can forget European Football now I think, they haven’t got the squad and their position in 15 cements that. They’ve done well at home but with the return of Van Der Vaart and all players having had an extra days rest – Spurs should seal this although I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a close 2-1. They are currently best priced with Stan James at 2.4 (Click Here).

Our stake is £26.16 again and tha’s divided into £11.57 on Fulham (2), £9.64 on Spurs (2.4) and £4.95 on the double (4.68). This gives a total possible return of £69.43.

Happy Gambling!