Carling Cup Sheffield Wednesday and Blackpool

Tonight Blackpool will travel to Sheffield to play Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough. This game stands out as Blackpool are available at 8/5 with Bluesq. Blackpool will be without 3 internationals that were involved in internal squads this week and their goalkeeper is out with an injury. This might suggest that now is a good time to play Blackpool or even back against them (Sheffield available at 13/8), however Sheffield Wednesdays aim this season is promotion and with a game against Bournemouth at the weekend it is likely that Gary Megson (Wednesday Manager) could make 11 changes from the weekend!

Blackpool played very well in the Championship opener, fielding 8 players that played in the Premiership so they still have strength in the side. I would expect Holloways men to dominate this game and win it comfortably.

My usual 10pt bet will be going on Blackpool tonight.

A quick note for the weekend, Spurs V Everton has fallen victim to the dreadful scenes seen this week, hopefully this will be rearranged shortly!

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Today is the start of the new English Champioship 2011-2012

Tonight sees the start of the English Championship where Hull City will face relegated Blackpool. Last season Blackpool started well in the Premiership and for a long time it looked like they might stay up. However a dreadful away record finally took its toll and they were relegated after 1 season back to the Championship. Hull City find themselves in the Championship for a second season after they flirted with the Premiership, so both these clubs have parachute payments from the Premier League however only Hull have been spending it.

Blackpool have not spent much money and have lost the likes of DJ Campbell and Charlie Adam, these losses are key to Blackpool and will probably result in Blackpool finishing mid table this term.

Reports are rife about Blackpool players not being motivated, this can only be a bad thing for the club and I expect this to be clearly seen tonight. Holloway will want a good performance but I cannot see it happening.

Hull have a great record over Blackpool at home and I can only see 1 result, that being a home win for Hull City. Hull can be backed at 6/5 with Bluesq and Bet365.

So I'm going 10pts on the home win.