I thought the difficult thing about discussing the Ashes would be finding a good bet. I'm already sat happily anticipating a huge profit on backing England to win the series, and after the Adelaide Test it seems the rest of Betfair's punters have got on too, if a tad late, as the price is down to 1.55 with little value left.
It was way back in June that I put my money on. I'd sat down with [b]Sky's David Lloyd[/b] to do the Betfair Big Interview, and got carried away with his insistence that supporting Andrew Strauss and co at odds of 4.0 was "a licence to print money".
It looks as if he knew what he was talking about, which is also good news for Victim Support Manchester who should pick up a few bob when Bumble's charity bet pays out. Where he got it most right was to question the...