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Tobias Gourlay suspects that the stars are not a good form guide and looks beyond the Big Two to find the value in this weekend’s Spanish-football markets.

Ed Nicholson looks at a pair of key fixtures for two of the giants of English football

Can anyone beat anyone in the BSP? If it’s an outsiders paradise then why are they outsiders? Gary Boswell mulls over these questions and more while selecting the best bets from the weekend’s non-league football.

Can anyone beat anyone in the BSP? If it’s an outsiders paradise then why are they outsiders? Gary Boswell mulls over these questions and more while selecting the best bets from the weekend’s non-league football.

I’m hoping the Patriots will have the balls to go ahead and sign this dude.

The 2010 NFL football season is shaping up to be an interesting one to say the least with two of the league’s biggest and longest tenured running backs parting ways with their respective teams.

The releases of LaDainian Tomlinson and Brian Westbrook have set off a firestorm of rumors and speculation about where the two backs might end up next season. Both still have a little something left in the tank, so it’s just a matter of finding the right team for their skill sets.

As far as LaDainian Tomlinson is concerned, he limits his prospective employment to teams capable of winning the Super Bowl. He has reduced his options to a very small field. And then he’s going to have to take a very modest contract, given his performance level in 2009 (730 rushing yards, 3.3 per carry, 20 catches) for a very good team.

There is a reasonably good chance no Super Bowl contender will offer Tomlinson, 30, that chance. But history says that Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots might, or Mike Shanahan in Washington could. This is not to say the Redskins are a Super Bowl contender.

It appears that unless Tomlinson is willing to join a team like the Cincinnati Bengals or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his best chance to reach the Super Bowl still might be through San Diego. And he just cashed out there.

One good fit for Tomlinson are the New Orleans Saints…

Hypocritical calls for football players to set perfect examples to youngsters benefits neither players nor fans, says Max Liu.

Frank Gregan wonders why every bloke in the country fancies himself as a football manager and gives us his own verdict on how England should play.

This week’s multiple cocktail includes a shot of International football, a dash of ODI cricket and a quart of Premier League Darts….

I know this isn’t the place to vent teeny-weeny spleens, but is anyone else increasingly irked by the phrase ‘get a result’ in football? Pundits, managers, players and fans will often be heard saying ‘I think we can go there and get a result.’ A result is simply the outcome. A 2-1 defeat is a result. A 6-0 drubbing is a result. What they mean is ‘I think we can go there and get a draw or even a win,’ in other words a favourable result, but they never say that do they. Anyway, now that’s off the chest, let’s concentrate on the Kempton placepot, in expectation of a profitable result.

My my, teams are really letting some once great running backs go these last couple of days huh?

Brian Westbrook won’t be playing for them Eagles no more once the 2010 NFL football season gets here. Yes, just like LaDainian Tomlinson not playing for them Chargers anymore. You see, after two cases of concussions last season, the Eagles finally let him go, stirring up some rumors that he may just call it quits and walk away from football.

However, Brian Westbrook claims that is simply not the case. ”My plan is not to retire. My plan is to continue to play football,” he said in an interview with a local radio station in Philly. ”There’s 32 teams out there. Hopefully I’ll have an opportunity to go and play with another team.”

Yes, after two concussions that kept him out for a good portion of Philly’s last campaign in the NFL, Westbrook feels he can still play football and bang heads with guys like Jared Allen and Patrick Willis. And in case you’re wondering, no, he doesn’t have a death wish.

Westbrook, who thanked Philadelphia Eagles fans and coach Andy Reid for all their support, said his agent has already heard from three or four teams about his availability for 2010. Of course, we don’t know if those three or four teams play in the NFL. Hell, he may end up playing for some team in Canada for all we know.

Westbrook also said that he understood why the Eagles…