The biggest appeal to me in the booking markets is the difference in price from one bookmaker to the next. SkyBet are offering 6/1 on Tommy Doyle to be carded against Newcastle. Yet if you calculate the average price from all the other bookies on the oddschecker grid it comes up at 4.5.
That’s a massive difference, it’s not even close. So who is correct? The majority of bookmakers or the one offering the stand out odds? I’m inclined to believe it’s the former.
It wasn’t the price that first drew me to this wager either, it was listening to the Betfair Football Only Bettor Podcast and the advice from Jake Osgathorpe. Backing opposing central midfielders to get themselves in the officials notebook is a strategy he’s been employing for a while now.
That’s because the Newcastle midfield are great at drawing fouls and cards. In 14 of their 20 Premier League games so far this season, an opposing midfielder has been booked.
Tommy Doyle wouldn’t be first choice for Wolves and has played limited minutes this season, but with Andre injured and Lemina struggling with illness, and his future up in the air, Jake believes Doyle might get the nod.
He started the last game against Forest and picked up a yellow card. Take the 6/1 on offer at SkyBet, a much bigger price than most bookmakers are offering.
1pt – Tommy Doyle to be carded v Newcastle – 6/1 @ SkyBet
