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Roy Keane´s Sunderland were unlucky to lose 1-0 to Liverpool on the opening day of the season but should have enough in their armoury to spike the guns of Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

The Black Cats are available at EVEN money with a goal start on Bodog´s match handicap - so you collect if the game is drawn or Sunderland win. If Spurs win the game by one goal you get your stake back.

That´s a bet we like very much because Juande Ramos´s side looked totally out of sorts in losing to Middlesbrough last weekend.

With so many new faces in the Spurs line up it is going to take some time for them to settle and the departure …

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Regular readers may recall that last week’s tips column was the first part of a two piece series about whether or not to show your cards when you don’t have to.

The first part detailed a situation in which a player made a huge mistake when he let an egotistical opponent know he had made a correct lay down.

This week, let’s start with another example.

It’s a NL game and an opponent, let’s call him Rocky, raise to four times the big blind from mid position.

You are on the button with ten-nine of diamonds and decide to call on the basis that, against a rock, you are highly likely to have two live cards. You also have position.

The …

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Money does funny things to people – just ask that lottery winner a few years ago who turned his back garden into some sort of quad-biking track – and it seems to have turned Roy Keane ever-so-slightly bonkers. The Sunderland manager has been busy spending the dough during the summer as he seeks to turn his team into something more than relegation strugglers. But some of the players Keane has signed… well, they’re not the kind of players you’d have thought a no-nonsense gaffer like Keano would have gone a million miles near.

El Hadji Diouf was bad enough. The erratic striker has a reputation of being a bit of a diver, getting opponents in trouble, winding up refs, and generally …

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Now, far be it from the Beat to stick its nose into other people’s affairs, but we think we’ve got a pretty good idea why Andrei Shevchenko’s transfer from Chelsea to AC Milan has collapsed. Hmmm, let us think for a moment…. Could it be that Milan got hold of some tapes of Sheva in action for Chelsea and realised that he’s actually rubbish?

It’s the most likely explanation. Shevchenko was superb in his first stint as a Milan player, but as soon as he signed for Chelsea, he seemed to lose every ounce of his ability. Almost overnight. Suddenly he was slow, he was old, he was unfit. He couldn’t control the ball. He couldn’t pass. He couldn’t run. And …

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