Last weekend turned out to be another profitable one on the prediction front with seven from ten correct forecasts providing a £4 profit and taking overall profits for the blog to £37.
The main successes were three from four premier league football predictions as well as identifying the Superbowl finalists from the Championship finals.
This weekend the main highlight for most Scots if not most Brits will be Andy Murray's attempt to win his first Grand Slam from his third such final and second consecutive in the Australian Open. Standing in his was is Novak Djokovic the Serb who won the title in 2008. In his previous two Grand Slam final appearances Murray has had to face the might of Roger Federer and the fact that he has avoided the Swiss as well as World Number 1 Rafael Nadal I think may be just the luck he needs to break his duck and am therefore predicting a win for the Scotsman.
The women's final features Belgian Kim Clijsters against the first Chinese woman (or man) to make a Grand Slam singles final Li Na. In this match I am going with experience and predicting a Clijsters win.
In English football the FA Cup fourth round will be the highlight of the weekend and I have made predictions for four of the games. There are a number of all premier league clashes this weekend and in the first of them at Everton I am predicting a win for Chelsea who appear to have found some form of late. In Birmingham Aston Villa host Blackburn and I'm going for a home win in this game, with my final all premiership prediction being the game at Craven Cottage where Fulham host Spurs and in this game I'm going for the away team - something to do with the ones in the year makes me think they could all the way!
My final FA Cup prediction is the game at Watford flying high in the Championship who host Brighton who are atop of the league below, and because of the league positions I'm going for a Watford win.
In Rugby Union the LV Cup continues and features the first game between English professional teams in Abu Dhabi when Wasps play Harlequins. Most of the top teams will be short of full strength as with the six nations only a week away their best players are with their respective national squads and this makes making predictions fairly difficult. However, for the London derby taking place in the Emirate I'm predicting a Quins win and for the game in Sale who host the Dragons, a team that has today suspended their head coach Paul Turner, I'm predicting a win for the team from the North West of England.
Back to Australia and the ODI cricket continues in Brisbane on Sunday. England can still salvage the series by winning all the remaining matches between the two sides and as such I think they will win on Sunday building on their success from Adelaide earlier in the week.
My final prediction takes us to American Football and the Pro-Bowl between teams representing the AFC and NFC conferences. Of course both teams will be shorn of players who will be playing in next week's Superbowl and again difficult to predict but I'm going for a win by the NFC.
In summary the predictions are as follows:
Australian Open Tennis
Murray to win the men's title at 11/8
Clijsters to win the women's title at 4/11
FA Cup Football
Chelsea to defeat Everton at 11/10
Aston Villa to beat Blackburn at 5/6
Spurs to win at Fulham at 7/5
Watford to beat Brighton at 10/11
LV Cup Rugby
Harlequins to beat Wasps at 10/11
Sale to defeat the Dragons at 1/4
ODI Cricket
England to beat Australia in Brisbane at Evens
American Football Pro-Bowl
NFC to triumph over the AFC at 8/9
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