Hurdle

13/8 POMPEY TO FALL AT FIRST CARLING HURDLE
Will Portsmouth, in the Premiership last season, be dumped out of the Carling Cup by Stevenage, in the Blue Square Premier last season, after the two were drawn together?……Hills make Portsmouth 4/9 and Stevenage 13/8 to knock them out.

Following the Carling Cup draw, bookmakers William Hill make Chelsea the 9/2 favourites and then offer: 6/1 Man Utd, 6/1 Man City, 9/1 Liverpool, 9/1 Arsenal, 10/1 Tottenham, 12/1 Aston Villa, 12/1 Everton, 20/1 Fulham, 25/1 Birmingham, 25/1 Sunderland, 33/1 Blackburn, 33/1 West Ham, 33/1 Stoke, 40/1 Bolton, 50/1 Newcastle, 50/1 West Brom, 50/1 Wigan, 50/1 Wolves, 80/1 Blackpool, 80/1 Nottingham Forest, 80/1 Burnley, 80/1 Middlesbrough, 80/1 QPR, 80/1 Reading, 100/1 Leeds, 100/1 Cardiff, 100/1 Bristol City, 100/1 Hull, 100/1 Portsmouth, 100/1 Norwich, 100/1 Swansea, 100/1 Ipswich, 100/1 Leicester, 100/1 Sheff Utd, 125/1 Derby, 150/1 Coventry, 150/1 Crystal Palace, 150/1 Preston, 200/1 Doncaster, 200/1 Millwall, 200/1 Barnsley, 250/1 Sheff Weds, 250/1 Southampton, 250/1 Scunthorpe, 300/1 Brighton, 300/1 Swindon, 300/1 Peterborough, 300/1 Notts County, 300/1 Huddersfield, 300/1 Charlton, 300/1 Plymouth, 400/1 MK Dons, 400/1 Colchester, 500/1 Oldham , 500/1 Walsall, 500/1 Rochdale, 500/1 Leyton Orient, 500/1 Carlisle, 750/1 Brentford, 750/1 Bristol Rovers, 750/1 Bournemouth, 750/1 Exeter, 750/1 Yeovil, 750/1 Tranmere, 750/1 Hartlepool, 1000/1 Gillingham, 1000/1 Northampton, 1000/1 Bradford, 1000/1 Rotherham, 1000/1 Chesterfield, 1000/1 Wycombe, 1000/1 Port Vale, 1000/1 Morecambe, 1000/1 Shrewsbury, 1000/1 Aldershot, 1000/1 Bury, 1000/1 Oxford, 1000/1 Crewe, 1000/1 Torquay, 1000/1 Southend, 1000/1 Stockport, 1000/1 Lincoln, 1000/1 Stevenage, 1000/1 Burton, 1000/1 Hereford, 1000/1 Cheltenham, 1000/1 Barnet, 1000/1 Accrington, 1000/1 Macclesfield.

Further information from Graham Sharpe…..07803 233702.