BILLY BUNTER

Weblog: The football punter

Fish double comes before a bit of friendly ribbing

A WORD of warning to former world darts runner-up, Kirk Shepherd.

Watch your twitter account later this week, mate!

I’m only marking your card, pal, because Spurs are playing Shamrock Rovers on Thursday night andit only needs Shammy midfielder Karl Sheppard to do something despicable to Luca Modric and you can guarantee an army of confused Tottenham fans will be giving you both barrels by the morning.

Just ask multi-Olympic medal-winning cyclist and lousy referee Sir Chris Foy or whatever his name is.

Anyway before I text a few Spurs mates with some of my finest ‘a dyslexic walks into a bra ...’ gags, there’s the small matter of a few second round FA Cup ties to be resolved before the Europa League hogs the midweek limelight and I’m going to have a full-on fish double – Grimsby and Fleetwood.

I know Fleetwood let me down against Yeovil at the first time of asking but I’ve got faith in the Blue Square high-flyers dotting up this time away from home and I’m also fairly sure that Grimsby will see off Salisbury at Blundell Park.

They may be 15^th in the old Conference but did you know that the Mariners are the joint highest home goalscorers in that section.

There! That should have the boys from the plain quaking in their boots.