That was the weekend that was

Football: United still searching first winIt was Super Sunday in the Premier League and despite a paucity of goals when Manchester City played neighbours United and Liverpool took on Chelsea, there was no shortage of incident. Sven-Goran Eriksson's side were dominated by visitors United but Sir Alex Ferguson's men were woeful in front of goal as Carlos Tevez wasted opportunities to bury the game. Geovanni scored the only goal to send City top of the league and leave United winless from three and equalling their worst start in the top flight for 15 years. At Anfield referee Rob Styles stole all the headlines for the wrong reasons as he controversially awarded Chelsea a penalty after the break. Frank Lampard cancelled out Fernando Torres's opener from the spot leaving Liverpool coach Rafa Benitez to claim Styles's decision had been 'unbelievable'. Rugby Union: France double upIt was never going to be easy for England to beat the French in Marseilles after they had lost the previous week on home soil at Twickenham and the task proved well out of their reach. Les Bleus won 22-9 with plenty to spare and Brian Ashton would have been left pondering his attacking options as again England failed to create any real try-scoring chances and were punished for poor discipline as they leaked penalties and saw lock Simon Shaw sent to the sin-bin for a high tackle. Golf: Ilonen snatches titleFinland's Mikko Ilonen claimed his second European tour win of the season in a dramatic Scandinavian Masters. Ilonen birdied the last to post a score of six under and Martin Kaymer, who had led for the whole of the fourth round, needed a par to force a play-off. However the German who had bogeyed 16 and 17, double-bogeyed the par-3 last and finished joint second. US rookie Brandt Snedeker captured his first PGA title with a two-stroke victory in the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. Snedeker shot a nine-under par 63 to finish two strokes clear of the field. Cricket: Durham make historyDurham Dynamos captured their first ever domestic trophy by winning the rain-affected Friends Provident Trophy at Lord's. Durham batted first and posted a huge 312. Hampshire's response ran in to Sunday but the chase proved too much as they were bowled out for 187.Our betsThe good: The way Manchester United started the game against City suggested our advice to back Eriksson's side for the win and to keep a clean sheet was going to appear in this feature but somewhere lower down. However they held out and we raked in the points - 7.5 in all. We were on target again when Gerry took the walk of shame from BB8. At last a gain on Big Brother that had been a non-betting opportunity all summer. The Greek copped it and we took the gains. The bad: It's hard to choose winners for the smaller European Tour events these days as most of the better known players are in the US or resting before 'bigger' tournaments but we were awry with our advice for the Scaninavian Masters as our main tip, Peter Hanson, could only muster a final round level-par 70 to finish tied for 12th. The ugly: nothing to report this week as our tips were there or thereabouts - that normally means a double helping next week... The week aheadFootball: It's international friendlies week as England play Germany at Wembley and Steve McClaren fields a team of nobodies to appease the big Premier League sides. Golf: Focus shifts to Holland for the KLM Open where Simon Dyson will hope to hoover (sorry) up the title he won in a playoff last year Grand Prix: Battle resumes on the circuit and probably in the McLaren pit with the Turkish Grand Prix Cricket: The seven match one-day series begins between England and India - any bets for how many are rain-affected?