We’ll start early in the hunt for some winners on the weekend football coupon, with Reading making plenty of appeal in their Friday night Championship clash with struggling Watford.

The Royals have the best goal difference in the league and ought to face a straight-forward assignment at the Madejski Stadium.

The Berkshire side currently occupy second spot in their section with 51 points, but with Birmingham City breathing down their necks for that coveted automatic promotion spot they’ll be keen to avoid any mishaps in winnable looking fixtures like this.

Coral and Skybet have chalked up the best price in the village with a reasonable quote of 8/15.

Next up Aston Villa look like ideal material to bolster the accumulator at 4/9 (general) in their West Midlands derby with bottom team West Brom. Fair play to the Baggies they try and play football the right way, but slick passing football with no end product can only lead them in one direction, and I’ll be amazed if they can get the better of their local rivals.

The Baggies are a mere 2/5 to ‘boing-boing’ straight back down in the Championship, and I can’t see much repsite for their depressed travelling fans at Villa Park. They won’t even be able to drink their way through it with any determination since the concourse bars inside Villa Park serve up an over-priced concoction masquerading as lager roughly akin to canal water. Actually that’s probably a disservice to canal water, but you get the picture.

Back to the Championship where Sheffield United should have too many guns for a traumatised looking Norwich team who’ve lost nine of their 13 away games, and won’t be looking forward to running out of the Bramall Lane tunnel one little bit.

The Blades are going great guns, currently occupying the final play-off spot, whereas Norwich can’t aspire to so much as a whiff of a Premiership armpit in their current relegation dogfight.

In the circumstances Paddy Power offer a stand out price of 7/10 which looks more than fair.

Last up Scunthorpe will be kicking themselves if they don’t put Hereford away in their League One encounter at Glanford Park, and they rate a solid last leg of the acca at 8/15.

Aside from boasting what is surely the most ridiculous mascot in world football in the shape of “the scunny bunny”, they play some neat football in the last third of the pitch, and in 16-goal Gary Hooper they’ve got a decent finisher at this level.

Hereford on the other hand are dishevelled looking set-up on the road, losing 10 of their 12 away games, and scoring only five times away from Edgar Street. It’s hard to see that statistic improving here.

The four-timer pays around 9/2 with the majority of the firms, with trebles from four selections a decent back-up plan.

Be lucky!
Tom

Weekend Football Tip
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