Blimey! The Scots have caught me on the hop and kick off their season tomorrow in divisions 1, 2 and 3. I covered these divisions last season but I never found many bets there and intend to drop them for the coming seasons. I want to add some other European leagues instead but once I have redone the site I can see how much effort it will be to add them in again. If anyone reads this and has found their stats useful please let me know.

With the English season kicking off next weekend I think it is unlikely the new site will be totally ready. Hopefully I can get some sort of beta version up and running but I find the site comes into it’s own once a few games have been played.

I think Spain kicks off their league on 30^th August and I would think everything will be in place then.  I should be in place in Gijón and am from google earth am pretty sure the flat is 5 mins walk to the ground!

I made some progress this week on the new console and I think it will be improved for next season and offer a lot more. I will need to rejig all my historic data but will add leagues as soon as I can. Next week I will put up what I have done and update it as I go.

Last time I talked about the top goalscorer and am prepared to go for a couple of antepost bets. The main fact I liked was that every player had scored at least 11 goals the season before in either the Premier League of Championship, aside from Owen in his first full season and Hasselbaink who came from Spain but had played before in England. From last season we have Ronaldo (31), Adebayor and Torres (24), Santa Cruz (19), Berbatov, Keane, Benjani, and Yakubu (15), Tevez (14), Carew (13), Defoe and Rooney (12) and Agbonhalor, Anelka, Gerrard and Owen (11).

If we drop the years when there was a 3 way tie in 12/14 cases the striker had scored at least 17 goals the season before which leaves just 4 possibles. With Ronaldo coming in injured I think Adebayor is the real value. He has played 2½ seasons in England now and is settled. I think Torres may find it hard to repeat what he did again. I did say Adebayor was boosted by the fact he scored 6 goals against Derby but with Stoke and Hull around maybe he can fill his boots against them.

There was an Adebayor picture gallery in The Guardian a while back and I am using this post as an excuse to show this photo from it

Someone else has to go to Spurs, especially if Berbatov goes and if it’s Santa Cruz he might be worth a go, although I wouldn’t be too surprised if Ramos tried to get Kanoute back with his newly swelled transfer chest.

Carew is the other one I like and want to bet on him and Adebayor.

++ Barclays Premiership Top Goalscorer – Adebayor @ 11/1 on Coral (1pt e/w)
++ Barclays Premiership Top Goalscorer – Carew @ 80/1 on Blue Sq (½pt e/w)

much better odds on betfair as Adebayor can be backed at 14 to win and 5.5 to finish in the top 4. Carew's win price is better but nothing for him in the top 4 market.

3 points staked in total