One of the vagaries of the fixture computer becomes evident this weekend, when teams in the English Leagues who faced each other just three and a half weeks ago do battle once again. It all used to seem so straightforward when home and away matches alternated for everybody and local derbies were played at Christmas and Easter, but those days are long gone, as are the days when Kenny Dalglish used to be part of a winning team. He sends his players out on a revenge mission in Saturday's early kick-off:

Another winning accumulator was secured last time out with all four selections obliging to land a nice payout to keep us in profit for the season, and after a break for the FA Cup third round, we can now get stuck into League football again, which is usually far more reliable from a betting perspective. Having said that, I think we can safely exclude the Premier League from that statement this season as the number of unpredictable results continued to soar during the last set of fixtures played, and I am struggling to remember a more open and competitive campaign in the top flight. Just five points separate the entire bottom half of the table, and it is quite conceivable that at least one of the division's more established teams will fail to survive this year.