Welcome

From the hectic Christmas period, straight into the transfer window and now the January edition of The Score. What a great few weeks for football fans!

If you backed our Featured Multiple in December's Score, you'd have enjoyed a smashing early Christmas present. Man City (4-2 v Bolton), Tottenham (1-0 at Portsmouth), Man United (1-0 at Liverpool) and Arsenal (1-0 v Chelsea) all did the business – and £20 on that four-fold would have won you a massive £856! You can read more about the potential to win big on Multiples in our Bet Facts section.

Talking of winning, Les Cotton of Brighton earned himself an LCD television by being the first name out of the hat of all those who performed better than our in-house tipping expert last month. There are more great prizes up for grabs in Beat the Expert.

Have you discovered 'Keep Bet' yet? Find out more in the Tactics section, and then you may want to try it out on one of this weekend's big games, including Liverpool v Aston Villa and Atletico Madrid v Real Madrid, which are two of the games featured in Previews.

If it's debate you're looking for, check out Pub Talk, where squad rotation and Liverpool's faltering title hopes are among the topics discussed.

Please feel free to forward this email on to any friends and family you think might enjoy The Score – we'll be back with another edition shortly before England's first game under new manager Fabio Capello on February 6th.

Happy punting

Paul Witten
Director of Football