Straight from the Horses Mouth by Fred Done

THE FA Cup provided a few notable shocks in last weekend's first round proper.

Ryman league leaders Canvey Island caused the biggest upset with a 1-0 win at Wigan and now face struggling Northampton in the second round.

If you think the part-timers can lift the cup I'll give you odds of 10,000/1 - mind you there's more chance of finding Elvis alive, seeing the Loch Ness Monster doing the back stroke and discovering that Arthur Scargill is the new PFA spokesman.

More realistically Big Sam will be hopeful of a good cup run on the back of Bolton's impressive league form, and I'm offering 66/1 for the Wanderers to lift the cup in 2002.

Meanwhile, Wanderers face Fulham at the Reebok tomorrow, with Jean Tigana's side just beginning to hit form after a sticky start to the season. Michael Ricketts is on fire though, and a 2-0 Bolton victory with Ricketts to score first pays 50/1.

I've opened a book on which player will score the next premiership hat-trick. Golden boy Michael Owen heads the market at 10/1 with Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink available at 12/1 Ricketts is 50/1 with Rod Wallace at 80/1.

After suffering defeat in the second test, Great Britain face a stiff task in the decider for the Guinness Rugby League Ashes at the JJB Stadium on Saturday and are now 9/2 to complete a memorable victory.

In the other code, England go into Saturday's test match as strong favourites against South Africa having run up a cricket score against a very poor Romanian side last week.

Meanwhile the England cricket team begin a three test series in India next week. After consulting with Hansie Cronje I'm very confident offering 9/1 that the boys come home with a series victory. If you're very optimistic you can have 80/1 for a 3-0 win.

All the prices quoted in my column are correct at the time of going to print and are available from Done Bookmakers shops throughout the area. DONE BOOKMAKERS

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