There was a jam-packed weekend of action with online betting punters spoilt for choice. There was a top of the table thriller in the Premier League, the Gallagher Premiership got underway, Australia beat England in the cricket, plenty of horse racing, the BMW Championship and the NFL!

Oh, and there might have also been a fight at Wembley on Saturday.

We run through all the action this week and have picked out three events for this betting blog where our canny punters found plenty of profit.

Please remember Spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit. They may not be suitable for everyone so please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

MANCHESTER CITY v ARSENAL – GOALS x CORNERS x BOOKINGS (SETTLED AT 3800)

There is only one place to start the weekend round-up and that is at the Etihad where Manchester City salvaged a late point from this titanic clash with Arsenal.

The Gunners had gone 2-1 up in the first half but attacker Leandro Trossard saw red for a second yellow card on the stroke of half-time. Predictably, that changed the way the game was played in the second 45 with City having all the ball and peppering the Arsenal goal with 28 shots, the last of which found it’s way into the back of the net from the unlikely source of John Stones in the ninth additional minute of stoppage time.

With four goals, ten corners, and 95 booking points, Goals x Corners x Bookings settled at 3800 as those who placed a buy bet at 1150-1275 were in clover to the tune of 2525x their stake.

ANTHONY JOSHUA v DANIEL DUBOIS – JOSHUA/DUBOIS 10-3 (SETTLED AT -34)

There were two big shocks at Wembley on Saturday night as Josh Padley beat Mark Chamberlain in the opening fight of the night whilst Daniel Dubois toppled Anthony Joshua to retain his IBF World Heavyweight title.

Padley was a 9/1 outsider in the opening fight, but when it came to our boxing spread betting markets, the Dubois fight threw up one of the biggest wins of the night.

Our 10-3 market awards ten points to the winner of the fight and a further three points for every round left in the fight including the round the fight gets stopped in (if there is no stoppage then the market settled at +/-10).

With seven full rounds to go as well as just over two minutes of the fifth round in which Joshua was dropped for a fourth and final time, this added 24 points to the final make-up.

The 10-3 market can settle negatively and so with Anthony Joshua a 14-17 favourite initially, the spread settled at -34 (10 for the Dubois win, 24 for the eight rounds) as sellers won a whopping 48x their stake.

AYR GOLD CUP – LETHAL LEVI 100-60-30-20-10-5 (SETTLED AT 100)

Saturday was a day to remember for Yorkshire-based trainer Karl Burke, who saddled the first three home in the Ayr Gold Cup this weekend.

American Affair was the 11/4 favourite, but Lethal Levi landed the spoils in Scotland at 20/1, with Silky Wilkie a 66/1 second and Korker rounding off a fine training performance with a third placed finish at 40/1.

With 25 runners heading to post for this Heritage Handicap, we offered an extended 100-60-30-20-10-5 Race Index market with Lethal Levi sent off with a spread of 8-11. The superb performance from Clifford Lee’s mount saw buyers on the market pocket a huge win of 89x their stake. Buyers on the Silky Wilkie spread at 2-4 were rewarded with a win of 56x their stake whilst those supporting Korker at 4-6 also walked away with profit having won 26x their stake.

Please note that these are examples of winning bets from the past week, and it is important to remember that spread betting carries a high level of risk to your capital and can result in losses larger than your initial stake/deposit.