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The free scoring Cheese Eaters look a cracking bet to see off Russia on Saturday night writes Bodog Beat. The Dutch had the luxury of resting all of their key players for their recent win versus Romania and hold most of the aces for the Basel showdown against surprise quarter-finalists Russia.

Manager Marco Van Basten will revert back to the side that beat World Champions Italy 3-0 and World Cup finalists France 4-1.

Russia themselves are nobody´s fools having beaten Sweden and Greece but they have yet to face a side of the calibre of Holland. Historically, the Dutch have emerged victorious on four of the previous eight matches against the eastern Europeans. Russia have won twice with two matches drawn.

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Hey, there’s only so long a special talent like former England coach Steve McClaren can stay unemployed, you know. So it comes as no surprise to hear that the man no-one calls Stevie Mac is back in football management – with Dutch club FC Twente. Never heard of them? Don’t worry. Not many people have.

“90% of fans will think ‘why him’?” said FC Twente chairman Joop Munsterman, making rather a worrying statement. “But he is used to working with top players.”

Well, he is. Kind of. Used to working with them, perhaps – just not used to working well with them. Still, we’re perhaps being a little unfair here, because all things considered it’s a pretty smart move by McClaren. For …

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There are so many mistakes you can make in poker. Bad starting cards, terrible reads or taking the pot from a drunken sociopath.

These are but a few.

However, a lot of the less straightforward mistakes stem from a mental blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists, con-men and people who have read one too many books label this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error. Fans of acronyms and people who have gone on one too few dates label it the FAE.

In slightly technical terms, it basically means that when we speculate about a punter’s behaviour we make the mistake of overstating the importance of character and underestimating the importance of situation.

Let us give you a real example.

A young male spots …

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