Last week, we advised a bet on over 1.5 goals in the meeting of Portlaoise and Clara, and we were on course for a payout with one goal scored by half way before the sadly necessary intervention of referee Joe Curley ensured that refunded stakes was the outcome.

That bet was advised last week on the basis that both of these teams are capable of scoring goals, and having been in attendance for the 35 minutes of football that was played, this bet should definitely be re-struck this week, as both sides demonstrated their ability to get in and create goal chances, even in atrocious conditions.

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As we look out our collective windows and wave at our neighbours rowing past, happily adapting to the nation’s new status as the next Atlantis, it may seem to many people as if it’s slightly pointless to get involved in betting on any of the weekend’s games. Such has been the level of rainfall that unless fixtures get moved to neutral venues on continental Europe, the strong likelihood is that most of the ties arranged for this weekend will fall by the wayside. Every one of the ties are taking place in either the west, south or midlands, with no action going ahead in the east or north-east, which has escaped the worst of the conditions.

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