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Nigel Seeley - the Wizard of Odds - picks out where to place your bets on upcoming sporting events and this week the FA Cup quarter-finals take centre stage.

Last week we finally achieved a 100 per cent winning record, something we haven't previously managed in 2009.

Nigel Seeley - the Wizard of Odds - gives his top tips on where to place your bets this week, with a football and rugby taking centre stage.

It was a small but significant step as we reduced our negative balance slightly last week thanks to Nicolas Anelka netting the winner for Chelsea to reward punters who had backed them at odds of 11/8.

Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - picks his selections from this week's sporting action with the FA Cup taking centre stage on where to place your bets.

Last week was finally the first winning weekend for Place Your Bets followers in 2009.

Nigel Seeley - the Wizard of Odds - predicts there is money to be made from the opening games of the Six Nations rugby championship this weekend, weather permitting.

Well, we finally got our year off to a winning start at the third time of asking.

Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - picks the Superbowl as the place to put your money this week.

Ulrika-ka-ka-ka!

How on earth the sexy Swede won Celebrity Big Brother last week, I will never know.

Nigel Seeley - the Wizard of Odds - gives his tips on where to place your bets and this week he backs Millwall in the Cup and Carlton Cole to upset the odds in the Premier League scoring stakes.

Last week the Wizard was away but I would have strongly tipped Arsenal to beat Hull.

Nigel Seeley - the Wizard of Odds - picks his best bets for the week ahead.

We didn't get off to the best of starts in 2009. In fact we couldn't have done much worse, although we were a little bit unlucky, especially with our FA Cup selection between Sheffield Wednesday and Fulham.

Nigel Seeley - the Wizard of Odds - gives some top tips on where to place your bets this week, with the FA Cup taking centre stage.

I hope everybody had a fantastic Christmas and now we must start the New Year running with some winners.

Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - is putting his cash on Sam Allardyce being appointed as the new Blackburn manager.

Last week's Sports Personality of the Year ceremony produced another shock result when Chris Hoy landed odds of 8/1 to be crowned the top man, beating our 3/1 headline selection Lewis Hamilton.

Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - gives his tips on where to place your bets this week, with an X Factor battle for the Christmas number one set to start.

The Wizard was away last week in sunny climes on a whirlwind trip to meet the bookmakers based on the Rock of Gibraltar.

Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - gives his top betting tips for the forthcoming week's sporting action

FOR those of you who don't know, Betbrokers - the company I worked for - went into administration last Friday. It was a very sad day for all 28 staff who lost their jobs.

It was a massive culture shock to sign-on on Tuesday morning and for any staff or clients who are owed monies, including myself, I hope and pray we get it back. The first way to do so is to have a couple of small bets on two games in the Premier League to score less than three goals.

When a Florida woman spotted the face of the Virgin Mary on her cheese sandwich, she made £15,000 by selling it on eBay.

But while religious sightings inevitably lead to pilgrimages and headlines, it’s hard to see people getting excited about spotting the image of a duck in their bucket of chicken wings.

Apart from this lot.

This Peanut Looks Like a Duck is a website that collects pictures of things that look like ducks from around the world, including rust-spots, chicken finger batter and lemons. Praise be.

Blonde's Eye View - Cherry Green's alcoholism is wrecking the planet

It seems to be that time of year when the Government and media tell us we are all drinking too much.

There seems to be a cycle – we’ve just had several months of being told we are all obese and now we are all "alkies".

Apparently being obese is even bad for the planet now. The public are more concerned about being non-environmentally friendly than they are about shovelling trans-fats into their faces. However it seems everyone has forgotten that larger people provide far more worm food when they die prematurely from an exploded heart.

Blunt - Concrete Pencil's Dan Bourke is away, and Giles Broadbent is feeling Under Seige

He sidled up to me at the bar at the Four Seasons and checked me up and down. I was vaguely aware of his presence, in his linen suit and crumpled navy shirt.

He looked like he had something to say and was fishing around looking for someone to say it to.

So, without invitation, he slid across his beer, followed its path and said to me: “Do you like Steven Seagal?�

Betbrokers' Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - gives his top betting tips for the week.

The bank holiday temperatures are expected to soar and the sporting action, including the French Open and the Monaco Grand Prix, indicates summer has finally arrived.

The second tennis grand slam of the season starts on Paris’s clay courts and if you are looking for an outsider to end Rafael Nadal’s domination of Roland Garros, forget it!

The king of clay has not lost a singles match in Paris in 21 matches and has only lost twice on the surface in three years.

I got strange looks when I lived in Hastings for ordering sandwiches stuffed with tuna, bacon and lettuce.

But that’s nothing compared to the stomach-churning horrors on show at wildrecipes.com, which showcases “the weirdest food people actually eat�.

Delia-dodgers can scribble down cooking ideas such as Cheddar Coffee, Rootworm Beetle Dip and Pig’s Face and Cabbage, while the truly disturbed can sample the Spam Shake, a glutinous mix of spam, anchovies, mustard and tomato juice.

Blonde's Eye View - Gladiator Cherry Green battles public nudity

The recent return of Gladiators to our televisions has caused me to revise my ambitions and expectations. I now know what I want to be when I grow up.

As a result I have joined a gym. We will gloss over the joining the gym experience and the dead-eyed manatee who I had to get past first. It was like getting past the sphinx, in a version of the legend where the sphinx is on its mobile and doesn’t want to have to get up and get the direct debit form.

Giles Broadbent picks up the Concrete Pencil this week (Dan Bourke is away)

The advert was wrong in the way that only adverts can be.

The advert was using the kung fu theory of advertising – weakness becomes strength; flaw becomes multi-million-pound marketing initiative.

So the advert saw dozens of people, nose to nose, in an abandoned warehouse with a slogan like “Get Closer�.

The advert was promoting a brand of chewing gum. Yet none of the hundred or so regimented folk sharing their personal space were joggling their jaws by so much as a nanometre.

Betbrokers' Nigel Seeley - The Wizard of Odds - gives Wharfers the lowdown on where to place their bets this week.

He who dares wins? Famous words from Del-Boy, but unfortunately we ended up looking “right plonkers� with a total loss of £50 last weekend.

With two major football finals this week we can get our figure up again, but we start with cricket where England face New Zealand in the first test at Lord’s on Thursday.

The 21st century is the age of the computer.

Anyone caught doing anything that doesn’t involve a screen or a caps lock button will be taken out and beaten with an ergonomic keyboard.

So it’s inevitable that the ancient art of doodling has eloped to the web.

The Doodle Notebook allows you to create wonders using a simple paint program, and upload them for a chance to win £1,000 of books.

Kudos go to top timewaster Emily Hamilton, who’s already clocked 1095 minutes on the site when she’s meant to be working.