Friday March 1st

Graeme McDowell opened with a solid 67 yesterday, three strokes ahead of both Tiger Woods and Rory McIIroy, no golf tournaments are won on Thursday, but he is now shorter in most betting lists than than the two pre tournament favourites and hopefully "our man" can build on that today and put himself in a strong position heading into the weekend.

Nothings Im-pozzo-ble

I want to discuss both the hosts here and Tours later in the email , the pair actually met last week  (Tours 2 Clermont 1) and I suggest you start by looking at those very entertaining highlights.

We discussed the visitors ahead of their 2-0 win at Arles two weeks ago....

Big day for me yesterday, over six points profit on five Ligue 2 selections , one of which, Laval, was posted on here in mid afternoon, so I am assuming most/all of you got to see that, they won 3-0.

Taken from today's newsletter ....

I was going to put up an early bet for the weekend today, but have decided to stick with Ligue 2, where we have five previews in any case, next email will be at 10.00 UK time on Saturday and there will be a follow up at 13.00 tomorrow.

I wrote a 2,000 + word email for subscribers about the Europa League today, including a 25-1 outright selection and three match previews. I spoke about one team that I suspect might have booked the wrong training facilities, turning up at Stalag 13 instead of the Ritz ! Another who seem sure to tire badly due to the training they have done and a third where I believe one team has very questionable motivation for the match.