BILLY BUNTER

Weblog: The football punter

Here's hoping skewed logic leads to a tidy profit

COME on Cesc.

You spent long enough in England to know how the national team shapes up.

Weren’t you paying attention?

Fabregas has had a moan at Capello’s tactics during Saturday’s dire match at Wembley in which Spain played lots of neat tippy-tappy stuff in not particularly dangerous areas and Joe Hart lumped the ball long.

A contrast in styles, I agree, but it’s nothing new.

Pass-pass-hump, pass-pass-hump is how we’ve been doing it for years and it never fails to get us to at least the last 16 of World Cup finals and sometimes the quarter-finals of Euros.

You can mock, Cesc, but just wait for next summer.

While you lot are boring the pants off us with your nice, tidy, arty-farty, clever-clogs nonsense we’ll be thwacking our way to the last eight as usual.

And that’s without Wayne Rooney.

Okay, okay, I admit, I’m talking out of my pocket as ever.

I’m just more gutted than usual to do my dough because the gulf in class was so evident from the first minute.

England continue to be shocking but maybe that’s the path to riches.

I don’t expect them to be better than Sweden so therefore, armed with a new skewed punting logic, I’m going to have some of them.

Continuing thatstrategy to its logical conclusion, I’m also going to have a bit on Glen Johnson getting man of the match.

There are some key Euro 2012 battles to get stuck into and I reckon the Czechs are well worth a punt in Montenegro.

The Czechs aren’t great but they are 2-0 up and just because Montenegro got a couple of decent results against us in qualifying,it doesn’t make them any good.

After all, we got a decent result against Spain.