Tenner

THE Saturday before Christmas reminded me of Tenner Bets passim. Mrs Tenner Bet spent the day rearranging the household furniture – no that's not a euphemism that involves flying pots and pans – while I took Wee Fiver and Wee Tanner…

THE Tenner Bet had a chat with a journalist colleague during the summer. It was at a point when Italy looked sure things for Euro 2020 and I was telling him how I'd tipped them to win the tournament in these very pages. “Did you…

IN one of those little quirks of fate, Brendan Rodgers was both the seventh favourite to become the next manager of Manchester United – prior to Ralf Rangnick this week moving into pole position for the job – and simultaneously third…

THE Tenner Bet can vaguely remember the last time he tipped a winner. The wager was placed at an illicit gin palace in Glasgow where the maximum stake was a tanner, the king's horse was running at Ascot and had to swerve a couple of…

THERE was a familiar pattern to last week's losing bet. Chelsea to win without conceding against Southampton felt as if it was nailed on right up until Ben Chilwell gave away a needless penalty. Romelu Lukaku to score in that imagined…

WELL, the big bucks just keep on rolling in. Cast your mind back seven days and the debate in this column centred around whether to stick a straight tenner on the hot favourite for the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket or a fiver each-way on…

THE last time the Tenner Bet visited Down Royal, I did so in a dress, wicker sandals and a straw hat. Well, it was Ladies Day. Since space is limited, here is the legalled version: it was my stag weekend and, you know, zany things happen…

You don't have to be a mathematical genius – yes, I do understand irony – to know that betting on international football can be a fraught experience. Take a look at last night's fixture list for evidence of that. You'll find Denmark were…

THE Tenner Bet has not had actual confirmation that Davie Martindale pinned last Saturday's column to the McDiarmid Park dressing room door before sending his hitherto hapless players out to chin St Johnstone 3-0, but what other…

England's lower leagues were once viewed as a retirement home where ageing top-flight footballers went to top up the deposit money for their first pub. In reality, the standard between the worst teams in Division Four and the elite in…