BILLY BUNTER

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I'm hoping City's moaners choke

OWEN, it's not just you, mate.

I've also had trouble with the quacks. I said ‘Doc I've just swallowed a bone'. He said ‘are you choking?'. I said ‘no I really did!'

Kerching! I thank you.

Anyway, Owen Hargreaves should regard his three-year sabbatical as a blessing. Not only has he been sat on his backside for three years earning a few million quid – my missus does it for nothing and she's rarely without a smile on her face – but it's also meant he's never had to go out there and answer the unfathomable mystery of how on earth he managed to win England caps.

Then again, Seth Johnson's won one so clearly anything's possible.

Hargreaves may well get a chance to shine for City today since Mancini is still moaning about his midfield crisis. I know I keep going on about this, but I'm welling up here,I really am. Plymouth can't even pay their team and Mancini's blubbing that out of his squad of 126, he's a couple of grafters light.

I hope they lose to Everton now. There!

Not that I'll be laying them. There are some better bets than that out there this weekend.

Such as Burnley at 12-5 against Southampton. Soton are getting their breaks but they're still far too leaky. Can't find a price on a 6-5 home win so will settle for a straight stab at the Clarets instead.

Bristol Rovers are also poised to come good soon and they can send out a warning in League Two by dotting up at Morecambe. I also fancy the Daggers at Northampton, who can't put out a defence.