Can't believe Liverpool are so short..Liverpool is a lay for me too..draw at best for them I feel..good luck gents..

very very tough game watchit....

carragher has been finished for 2 years imv watchit...

when you lose your pace you're in trouble...

just look at rio ferdinand...

Matt is bullish with his opinions. I don't think anyone should be criticised for giving opinions. It's not like anyone was saying Matt was way off the mark before the races. I prefer opinionated to fence sitting, myself.

Knott made himself a laughing stock criticising the handicapper for raising the horse beyond 140 when he had just admitted telling Geraghty not to worry last time because he had 2 stone in hand (horse later put up 15lb). Doesn't come across as full of integrity but should fit in within racing circles.

He was quite self depricating on the atr preview show at times. I'm not a big fan of Matt or anything like that, but it's easy after the event.
It's all too easy for connections to crow after things go their way.

well if i had a horse i obv loved and a tipster was on saying it had no chance i would jump at the chance to put them in their place once the beast has gone on and won and it didnt just win , it absolutely hacked up. prob the easiest winner of the day!

Is this the same Matt Williams who worked for the Racing Post, where he was asked to do an article on Exchange shops, liked what he saw and soon after resigned to become a fast picture thief and now calls himself a Professional Gambler?

yes that  is him!

I'm more aiming at the people who sit in judgement without offering an opinion of their own. Fair play if some can quote their posts writing that Matt was way off the mark for taking on Hunt Ball for the place. He did say he was laying the place because he would either handle the track or he wouldn't.

well yes thats fair enough cider. i dont really critisise matt, u will see many posts on here from me recently saying i would be laying sprinter sac as i had doubts the hill and i stuck by that and i thought i had a fair argument. i was wrong, what can ya do. as far as im concerned, his odds on backers were guessing and on this occasion they happened to be right!

i hate fence sitters but i also hate people who get visably annoyed when u dont agree with them even when u have a fair argument. i found this the case with many SS backers on here tbh. then when he won , they came on bragging like they have somehow spotted this great talent before anyone and re posting old comments with 'dont say u were warned, he is a MONSTER' etc, an 8/11 shot on the day lets not forget

they all think they are the messiahs now god love them!

What with it being a derby and all...

sounds like liverpool are winning comfortably watchit...?

just got in from shopping...

night night...

did you trade out at 1-0 watchit...?

ilwab,was looking for that anthony knott interview on sporting life,cant find it,any chance of the link?

just watch the race mate and it will come up at the end!

well played watchit.

"Some Liverpudlian bloke,aint got a clue what he's talking about"

That might not be Matty he was talking about. Well done to anyone who won on the football. It was nice for Stevie tonight.

Hard to believe lots of people commenting on this thread watched the same Cheltenham preview as me.

Matt Williams said it was entirely conceivable Hunt Ball could win but he'd be prepared to lay it for a place on the basis the one time it had gone left-handed this season it had been beaten.

Clearly, that defeat at Plumpton - when, incidentally, Hunt Ball was running off a mark almost 3st lower than the one he won off yesterday - was attributable to something and, at the odds, Matt was prepared to take a chance it may have been the way around they were going.

With the benefit of hindsight, it now looks more likely it was the heavy going. However, unlike all the after-timers on this thread, Matt didn't have the benefit of being able to watch yesterday's race before proffering his opinion.