[Sky's Deadline Day Coverage]

29 senior goals in 142 appearances and he is worth 16 million

Not that I am desperately trying to defend Danny Welbeck but those numbers alone are a bit misleading. 52 of those 142 appearances were as a sub. I doubt he has probably started more than 10 games in a row at any time in his Man Utd career. Its hard to judge how good, or not, a player is who is not getting consistent first team football. Sturridge was the same at Man City and Chelsea and he has turned out to be a no bad BPL player once he has nailed down a starting place at Liverpool.

[Referendum Odds]

The bookies know football and racing and sports inside out. What's their track records on Scottish Independence Referendums?

They'll be making their judgements based on (amongst other things) the published polls and where the money is being placed.

But there are many of us who believe that the polls are not reflecting what is actually happening in Scotland.

I will be absolutely gobsmacked if the No vote is anywhere near the percentage that the polls are predicting.

Very good point. Bookies have reams and reams of historical data to base their football/racing/sports betting prices on, as well as what they see on the pitch week in week out. Even for general elections or Scottish elections, they have historical data on turnouts, margins of victory and again what the general mood of the population is in relation to the parties involved.

There is no real data here bar the opinion polls (from smallish sources?) and as you said, from the flow of money.

As a slight side issue, in terms of opinion polls etc I was on FB last week and saw the Nae Danger energy drink had posted the question on their page after last weeks debate, yes or no and asked its "Likers" to post their comments.

Now obviously Nae Danger energy drink probably has a certain demograph that it appeals to and who are likely to "like" it on FB, and that section of people are probably not a fair representation of the Scottish voting public. However they do have 35,000 Likes and, when I last looked, they had over 1,700 people responding to this FB post. I scrolled few quite a lot of the replies, in fact a very lot. From a rough estimate the percentage saying Yes was, IMO, anywhere between 90-95%. There were pages and pages of Yes replies with only the odd No here or there, usually one in every 15-20 replies or less at times. End of the day its still an opinion poll and it had quite a high number of responders. Just shows that if you ask certain people a question you can get widely varying results depending on who you are asking.

[Referendum Odds]

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/punter-stakes-800000-on-a-no-vote-30549812.html

Ignore the headline statement about him gaining nearly £1m. He will gain £173k or lose £800k.

[Ticket Pick Up Info]

I was on the phone to them this afternoon to buy a ticket (change of plans so I can now go). Could have got a £48 ticket but they said it was too late to post, whch I would question. I'm staying in Dusseldorf as well and if i was going to pay that kind of money I would want my train travel covered, tt's about 38 euro return so it's not that cheap. I even offered to go and pick it up from their office but that's is not possible for whatever reason. I'm on 8 points so could have easily harvested but wanted to do the right thing, that's a lesson learned. Bearing in mind we've all had to pay £50 for membership you would expect better customer service.

Why would you buy a return when you would have a match ticket that would cover your train back to Dusseldorf after the game? For the sake of about £15 you have decided to not buy a Scotland end ticket but how much is that in relation to the cost of your whole trip? I just don't get it, folk will spend £500 on this trip and moan about an extra £15 or so for a match day train fare just because some others aren't having to pay it. Green cheese indeed.