Latics out to 4-1 for drop

SPORTS BETTING: A WIN and two draws from Lee Johnson’s three games in charge have seen Athletic’s price for relegation from npower League One pushed out to 4-1.

And though there is no room for complacency, the situation is clearly more promising than when the new man took over at Boundary Park.

With the bottom three virtually doomed, Scunthorpe are the other club rated favourites to fall through the trapdoor at 1-2. Colchester are 9-2.


TURNING to the Premier League survival race, the bookies reckon Reading (1-20) and QPR (1-12) are all but gone following disappointing results over Easter.
Aston Villa are third favourites for the drop at 8-5, but Sunderland (15-8) are in freefall and even the appointment of Paolo Di Canio might not save them.

Wigan (5-2) are doing what Wigan do. With three wins in a row to their name, the annual escapologists look well on track for survival once again.


MANCHESTER United’s defeat at Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup seems to have left the way clear for neighbours City to win the famous trophy.
City, who take on Chelsea in the semi-finals, are 13-10 to lift the cup, which seems fair enough to me.

Chelsea are 7-4, Wigan 5-1 and Millwall 20s.