Manchester City´s hot league streak looks set to continue as Mark Hughes takes his rapidly improving side to the JJB in the later game on Sunday afternoon.

The Eastlands outfit have now won three of their last four Premier League matches - knocking in an impressive12 goals in the three wins.

That haul was eyecatchingly beefed up by last week´s 6-0 home win over Portsmouth. The victory was City´s biggest win in nearly 40 years.

Anoraks may point to the fact that City have never beaten Wigan in the Premiership (drawn two, lost two), but City have never had a player like Robinho in their side either!

The Brazilian combined with compatriot Jo to devastating effect in the Pompey mauling and it´s hard to imagine that they won´t score.

On recent form Steve Bruce´s Wigan appear to be no pushovers and are sure to attract online betting support.

At present they are unbeaten in five league and cup games with three wins and a brace of draws.

But drill down a little deeper into the stats and it is interesting to see that the Latics have only picked up three home points from an available 15.

The JJB boys have only scored once at home this term and we have to believe that their lack of home goals will see them undone by a rampaging City. totesport´s football odds about a win for Hughes´s team look too good to resist.

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Twelve months on and millions upon millions spent, it´s still the same sorry story for Tottenham Hotspur.

Former boss Martin Jol ruthlessly got the boot for his poor start last season yet few are questioning Juande Ramos despite this being the worst Premiership start of all time from the north Londoners.

Thankfully us punters can question the Spaniard by backing Wigan at football odds of 4/1 with totesport online betting to heap more woe on the White Hart Lane outfit.

With a record of one win in 11 Premier League outings it´s almost impossible to make a case for backing Spurs.

Rock bottom of the table with only one point is not good enough for a side that harbours Uefa hopes. Talking of the Uefa Cup, did you see Tottenham´s laboured display against Wisla Krakow in midweek?

They huffed and puffed against second rate opposition for most of the match and needed a second half Darren Bent header to eke out a 2-1 victory.

Wigan are a much better side than Krakow and have looked highly useful on the road this season. They thrashed Hull 5-0 on the last away day and their performance merited something better than the eventual 2-1 defeat at West Ham in the opening game of the season.

Egyptian hit man Amr Zaki looks a great signing and alongside Antonio Valencia the Lancashire side have the makings of a lethal front pairing. We expect them to do some damage at the Lane.

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Manchester United will find themselves a gaping NINE points behind Chelsea should they lose to the high flying Londoners on Sunday.

That´s the nightmare scenario for manager Sir Alex Ferguson who takes his side that fortress of a venue, Stamford Bridge, this weekend.

The Londoners boast and unbeaten record of 84 home Premier League matches. Indeed, Roman Abramovich´s club haven´t suffered a league defeat at the Bridge since losing to Arsenal in February 2004.

If United are to make any impact they will need to produce a far better performance than they did in losing 2-1 at Liverpool last Saturday.

But it doesn´t look good. Nemanja Vidic is suspended and that means we will see a makeshift centre half in the form of Gary Neville or Wes Brown next to defensive mainstay Rio Ferdinand.

Chelsea, on the other hand, are in fine fettle. Their 4-0 win over Bordeaux on Tuesday is further evidence that Felipe Scolari´s men are starting to fire on all cylinders.

That´s a scary prospect and one that should alert punters to take those football odds of 5/4 for Chelsea to avenge their Champions League final defeat with victory.

totesport´s online betting lists Nicolas Anelka at 6/1 to score the first goal and given his last minute strike against the French outfit in midweek that´s a punt well worth a dash.

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New Premier League boys Stoke City look an excellent punt at football odds of 11/5 to beat Everton in Sky´s live TV game at the Britannia Stadium on Sunday.

If they are to survive, manager Tony Pulis told the club´s devoted fans that they need to turn their Potteries home into a “fortress” this season.

And that was very much the case as the combination of a bear-pit atmosphere and an energetic team display proved too much for Aston Villa to cope with in the Potters´ first game back in the top flight for 23 years.

David Moyes´s Everton can expect more of the same and given his side´s iffy start to the season (2 defeats 1 win) it is hard to see why Stoke are made underdogs for this clash.

Pulis will have a full squad to choose from with the impressive Ricardo Fuller and Dave Kitson partnership spearheading their hopes.

Fuller is available at online betting odds of 15/8 to score at anytime and given his storming home display against Villa that looks a price well worth an interest.

Stoke´s long ball methods have come under fire from most quarters but to label them as the new “Wimbledon” is rank bad lazy journalism.

Going forward they are a match for most and anyone who witnessed the build up to Fuller´s strike against Martin O´Neill´s team will be left in no doubt about their ability to create and construct from inside their own half.

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Wow. What a difference a week makes in football. Arabs buy Manchester City and Real Madrid’s Robinho, Manchester United sign Dimitar Berbatov and King Kev resigns.

It’s a crazy, crazy world as far as the English Premier League is concerned and who knows what else is in store over the coming weeks.

One of the more interesting stories is that Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is on the verge of selling the club to Indian businessman Anil Ambani.

And guess what?

Newspaper rumours suggest Kevin Keegan could be back as manager in a matter of days if Indian billionaire Ambani gets his way.

As far as us punters are concerned we have to try and make sense of it all and whilst it would be wonderful to imagine a third coming of Messiah Keegan this one looks a bridge too far.

Make no mistake about, the Toon Army are in utter disarray right now and are heading nowhere fast. totesport online sports betting go 18/1 that they will be relegated this season and that’s a decent price considering the turmoil the club are embroiled in.

Morale among players and fans is at rock bottom and that just has to affect performances on the field. The bookies perceived certainties for relegation - Hull, Stoke and WBA - have shown thus far they are nothing of the sort. That brings into play at least eight sides fighting to avoid the drop and after the happenings of the past couple of weeks Newcastle are one of them.

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Online sports betting maestros totesport go 12/1 about Manchester City’s chances of landing this year’s FA Cup and with a veritable war chest behind them we expect Mark Hughes’s side to go mighty close.

The extraordinary signature of Robinho from Real Madrid was just the first in a long line of mega money arrivals that will get fully underway in the January transfer window.

The club’s new Arab owners have already spoken of their desire to see the likes of Kaka, Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo at Eastlands and with a reported 555 billion fortune behind them anything is possible.

Their spend, spend, spend policy obviously throws up all sorts of ethical questions that will trouble most genuine football supporters – but a little investment ourselves at 12s will make us feel better should they go all the way to Wembley.

Like all Premiership sides City will enter the competition in the 3rd round proper that gets underway at the start of the New Year and by the time they play their 4th round match we could be looking at football’s equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Today’s football transfer gossip pages are awash with stories of Steven Gerrard and Michael Essien being lined up for January moves.

When the news broke that the Arabs had bought into City we considered tipping them for the Premiership title at 80/1 but even if Hughes buys a galaxy of stars it will take him several months to gel them together into a cohesive unit.

But one off cup games are a different story and offer the incoming stars the best opportunity of winning some silverware this season. Help yourself to those 12/1 footbll odds because the FA Cup is coming to Middle-Eastlands.

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Keep an eye on Arsenal for the Premier League title following their slick 3-0 victory over Newcastle at the Emirates Stadium at the weekend.

Dutch ace Robin van Persie scored twice while Brazilian Denilson got the other to serve out a warning to more fancied title rivals Chelsea and Manchester United.

As a consequence the bookies have trimmed the football odds on Arsene Wenger´s side for the 2008/9 Premier League title.

Elsewhere, Portsmouth got their season back on track with an impressive 3-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park. Harry Redknapp´s men lost their two opening games of the season against Chelsea and Manchester United.

Former Spurs man Jermain Defoe linked up perfectly with Peter Crouch to inflict a rare win over the Toffees in their Merseyside stronghold. Pompey are 25/1 to win the FA Cup with totesport sports betting.

At the other end of the table Stoke City and Hull suffered Saturday set backs in their respective quests for survival. The Potters went down narrowly 1-2 at Middlesbrough and the Tigers were embarrassingly routed 5-0 against Wigan in front of their home fans.

Bizarrely West Brom are more fancied to stay up with many football judges despite mustering just one point from their opening three matches. Their first point came in a 0-0 stalemate at Bolton on Saturday.

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The presence of Gareth Barry on the pitch is sure to grab the headlines for Aston Villa´s match against Liverpool on Sunday.

The on-off-on-off transfer saga was one of the big summer stories but put aside the hype and make yourself a few quid by backing Villa to grab all the points in their Birmingham stronghold.

Anyone who has watched Liverpool´s performances this season will be fully aware of just how badly they are playing despite a 100% start to their Premier League campaign.

But in football you can only ride your luck for so long. The efforts of Rafa Benitez´s boys in scraping past Standard Liege was very disappointing against supposedly vastly inferior opposition. What would Man Utd, Arsenal or Chelsea have done to Liege over two legs?

Villa lost to a surprisingly impressive Stoke City last week but in their excellent opening day 4-2 win over Man City they spelt out that they are going to be a serious proposition at home.  Take the premiership odds on the Villains.

Roy Keane´s Sunderland are also in action on Sunday where we fancy them to beat visitors Manchester City at the current football odds.

The Black Cats were brilliant in winning at Spurs last weekend and they can oblige again against a City side that has been known to suffer from travel sickness in the past 12 months. The 4-2 loss at Villa Park points towards more away day agony this season.

Sunderland have spent fortunes this season in an effort to make solid inroads into the top half of the table.

Anton Ferdinand is the latest recruit following a GBP 8 million move from West Ham. An assured debut from him at the back and some fireworks up front from El Hadji Diouf and Djibril Cisse will be enough to get past City.

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Manchester United got off to an iffy Premier League start drawing 1-1 at home to Newcastle and they may well struggle to bag three points as Sir Alex Ferguson takes his team to Portsmouth on Monday night.

Shorn of Cristiano Ronaldo the Red Devils looked a pale shadow of the side that stormed to the title last season and the Portuguese star continues to be absent from the squad as he recovers from injury.

Carlos Tevez returns to provide striking support to Wayne Rooney but that might not be enough to get the better of Harry Redknapp´s boys.

That´s because Pompey have a great Fratton Park record against the Red Devils.

In their south coast fortress they have won three of their five Premier League games against United losing only once.

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As ever Redknapp has made some shrewd signings over the summer and we expect Peter Crouch to form a dangerous partnership with Jermain Defoe. But it is in midfield that we expect Pompey to gain the upper hand on Monday.

Brilliant French midfielder Lassana Diarra will definitely start after recovering from a knock against Chelsea and with Michael Carrick out for United he should dominate against the likes of John O´Shea and Darren Fletcher.

That dominance in the centre of the park should be enough to ensure Pompey bag a point - which is available with totesport´s online betting at 12/5.

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Totesport is that convinced that the Premiership will be heading in the direction of either Old Trafford or Stamford Bridge that they are offering 3/1 that any other team can win the league. With Liverpool and Arsenal both starting their campaign on Saturday any punter who thinks they can win the league could be tempted to also have the rest of the field running for them.

Man U or Chelsea to win the league it a 2/7 shot.

Paul Petrie, totesport spokesman commented, ” There is plenty talk of the big four but when it comes to winning the league we think it is the big two and are happy to take the rest on.”

**Premiership Winners

2/7 Man U or Chelsea 3/1 the Rest

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