ADALENE looked like he had more to give on Sandown debut (decent race) and I backed him ew in this next at Salisbury hoping his education on debut stands him in good stead here.
Footpad face to opposite way aswell. He didn't look anything special against a pretty ordinary field. I guess he will just be used to farm some of these races in France like Thousand Stars has.
Agree about the keeper angle, but the technique involved to strike it as sweetly considering the distance and trajectory the ball fell down to him makes it infinitely harder to connect with than Payets strike.
Croatia should be out of sight here, most impressive team so far, Turkeys two good players Calhanoglu and Turan never turned up.
Still 20/1 with Ladbrokes and Paddies, they look solid defensively and have quality in attack, dont have any weaknesses really and players like Modric showing they can produce something from nothing even when they are not taking their chances.
Gets some stick but cracker of a ride by STD to win on Ptit Zig in France. Willie retire Thousand Stars, the horse is done FFS!
England are always a false price for any sport because the bookies know that there are enough mugs out there that will back them at any price. I had Spain winning Group D and Croatia for second. That would mean that Croatia could face Italy or Belgium in the Round of 16 followed by Germany in the Quarters.
Should of taken note regarding DONT TOUCH as Fahey has been smashing in winners over the last few weeks and over the last 48 hours he's had about 35 runners netting in the region of £145,000. However he does not send many to far south so it was a very long way to go to Salisbury for just one race. DT only beaten once and that was only a length aswell.
For **** sake just seen Ptit Zig has won at 22/1 over in France. Regularly back this horse didn't get chance to look at racing for today. Bit annoyed to say the least
I read Fahey’s SportingLife column for Saturday and he had twenty odd runners, with two runners in each of several races at York and Chester. He only had one runner at Sandown (which I fancied) but his comments were enough to put me off it – and it ran nowhere with Dettori on board. Ironically, about the only one he was really positive about was Lexi’s Hero, which won at 7/2. What put me off Don’t Touch was that it was Even money favourite for a seven runner race in Ireland and you could have thrown a decent sized blanket over the entire field at the finish. It was fifth beaten about a length. So the form looked very suspicious. As it was I knew my fate before the stalls opened as Charlie Hills’ horse was totally friendless in the betting.
Calm down lads, I fancy Croatia to do well myself but they beat Turkey! It's like beating Ireland or Albania. They looked devastating In 2012 group stage too...
