06.02.14 Thursday Morning

A fan takes on a mascot in a race at the Rugby 7's. But what happens next?

 



Football

Monday night’s tumultuous Chelsea win at City has once-again thrown the title race wide open. However, we still have City 10/11 favourites, Chelsea 2/1 and Arsenal 4/1.

First up in the top flight on Saturday is another top four clash as Liverpool host Arsenal. The Reds have struggled in recent meetings with the Gunners, winning just one of the last 12 clashes between the sides in all competitions over the past five-and-a-half seasons.

So can Brendan Rogers’ men improve on that record and close the gap on the league leaders? Our Supremacy price for this one is Liverpool/Arsenal 0.3 - 0.5.

There are then six 3 o’clock matches; Villa/West Ham 0.35 - 0.55, Palace/West Brom 0.05 - 0.25, Chelsea/Newcastle 1.8 - 2, Man City/Norwich (h) 1.5 - 1.7, Southampton/Stoke 1.05 - 1.25 and Sunderland/Hull 0.3 - 0.5.

The 5.30pm TV game is managerless Swansea versus Welsh rivals Cardiff at the Liberty. Michael Laudrup’s surprising departure comes just weeks after Malky Mackay left the Bluebirds to be replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

So can the former Manchester United striker take advantage of the turmoil at his near-neighbours to complete a first-ever league double over Swansea? Cardiff are 15/4 for the win on the fixed odds, the hosts are 8/11 and the draw is 5/2.

Sunday’s 1.30pm game features two sides chasing European spots as Tottenham and Everton do battle at the Lane. The corresponding fixture ended goalless at Goodison Park earlier in the season. We have Total Goal Minutes at 134-144 for this one.

The 4pm game is Manchester United against Fulham with under-pressure David Moyes keen to get his misfiring side on some kind of run. Can the Cottagers, currently bottom of the Premier League pile, cause on upset? We have them 14/1 for the win, United are 1/6 and the draw 6/1.

With the Champions League last 16 returning this month, our spreads and fixed odds for the last 16 first leg games are now live with, interestingly, none of the home sides favourites for any of the ties. Our Supremacy prices are; PSG/Leverkusen (h) 0.1 - 0.3, Man City/Barcelona -0.1 - 0.1, Atl Madrid/AC Milan (h) 0.1 - 0.3, B Munich/Arsenal (h) 0.5 - 0.7, Dortmund/Zenit (h) 0.5 - 0.7, Man United/Olympiakos (h) 0.2 - 0.4, Chelsea/Galatasaray(h) 0.45 - 0.65 and Real Madrid/Schalke (h) 1.05 - 1.25.

Our fixed odds outright prices have Bayern Munich 9/4 favourites, Real Madrid 9/2, Barcelona 5/1, Dortmund 10/1, Chelsea 12/1, Atletico Madrid 12/1, Paris St Germain 14/1, Manchester City and United both 16/1 and Arsenal 33/1.

We’ve also now released further World Cup betting markets including Group spread betting indices and a range of other fixed odds markets.

Will England get out of their tough group? England’s 25:10:5 Group Index price is 10.25-11.75 and their fixed odds price to qualify is 4/6.  

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Rugby 

England will be hoping to put Saturday’s agonising last-gasp defeat to France behind them as we enter week two of the Six Nations.

The loss sees England slip to 4/1 to win the tournament with Wales 15/8 favourites, France 2/1 and Ireland 10/3.

Our Supremacy prices for the weekend’s games are Ireland/Wales 0 - 3, England/Scotland (h) 8 - 11, France/Italy 18 – 21.

Tomorrow (Friday) also marks the opening game of the Super League season as Wigan Warriors take on Huddersfield Giants.

As for our Outright Grand Final winner fixed odds we have Warrington Wolves the favourites at 13/5 followed by Leeds Rhinos at 15/4, Wigan Warriors 4/1, Huddersfield Giants 5/1 and St Helens 11/2.  

See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby fixed odds betting prices here.

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Cricket

We have updated our rulebook in regards to our new ‘Completed Match’ market – a binary spread market allowing you to bet on whether a match will be completed or will be weather-affected and abandoned.

We have also updated our rules in relation to when adjustments are made midway through an innings. The changes can be seen on pages 19 and 21 respectively of our Sports Spread Betting Rulebook.

This week’s cricket betting takes in the New Zealand v India 1st Test and Bangladesh v Sri Lanka 2nd Test as well as all the Big Bash and Ram Slam action.

Click here to see all our latest cricket spread betting and cricket fixed odds prices.

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Golf 

The European Tour moves to Johannesburg for the Joburg Open this weekend with Charl Schwartzel, who won the event two years in succession in 2010 and 2011, leading the betting.

The South African was 22-25 on our 80-40-30-25-20-15-10-5 spread betting Leaderboard (7/2 on the fixed odds). George Coetzee was 11-14 (10/1), Richard Sterne 7-9 (18/1), Thomas Aiken 6-8 (20/1), Danny Willett, Ross Fisher, Hennie Otto and Steve Webster all 4-6 (28/1, 33/1, 33/1 and 35/1 respectively).

On the PGA Tour, a strong field has gathered for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Defending champion is Brandt Snedeker who, ahead of the tournament, was 4-6 on our 80-40-30-25-20-15-10-5 spread betting Leaderboard (28/1 on the fixed odds).

Leading the betting was Jason Day at 11-14 on the Leaderboard (10/1 on the fixed odds), followed by Dustin Johnson at 9-12 (12/1), Hunter Mahan and Phil Mickelson at 8-11 (16/1 and 12/1 respectively), Jordan Spieth at 7-9 (18/1), Jimmy Walker 6-8 (22/1) and Jim Furyk, Chris Kirk and Graeme McDowell all 4-6 (all 33/1).

We’re also betting on the Allianz Championship on the PGA Champions Tour.   

Click here to see all our latest golf spread betting and golf fixed odds betting prices.

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Tennis 

We are pleased to announce that we have vastly expanded our in-play tennis coverage to take in more matches than ever before.

We will now cover more live matches than previously in the top ATP and WTA events plus offer live betting on Challenger tournaments not previously covered in-play.

All in all we anticipate we will be offering in-play spread betting and fixed odds betting on around 10,000 matches over the next year.

This week’s latest live betting takes in the ATP Montpellier and ATP Zagreb.  

See all our latest tennis spread betting and tennis fixed odds betting prices here. 

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Darts

The Premier League of Darts gets underway tonight (Thursday) at the Echo Arena in Liverpool featuring a rematch of last year’s final between Michael van Gerwen and Phil Taylor.

Our traders can’t split the two with the 10-3 Supremacy price -1.5-1.5 choice and the fixed odds van Gerwen 13/10 and Taylor 13/10 and the draw 10/3.

Van Gerwen is the outright favourite to win the tournament at 13/8 with Taylor at 7/4 and Adrian Lewis 9/2.

We’re also betting on the BDO World Trophy from Blackpool.

See all our latest darts spread betting and darts fixed odds betting prices here.

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Motor Racing

The new F1 season starts on March 16th in Melbourne with the drivers in for a real test of their skills given some fundamental changes to the performance and set up of the cars.

The new, more environmentally-friendly and less noisy turbo V6 machines had their first set of testing at Jerez in late January with a number of differences immediately evident to last season’s machines.

Our fixed odds outright prices are now live with Sebastian Vettel again the red-hot favourite at 13/8 to continue his dominance of the sport.

Lewis Hamilton is 10/3, Fernando Alonso 5/1, Nico Rosberg 9/1, Kimi Raikkonen 10/1 and Jenson Button 12/1.

See all our latest motor racing spread betting and motor racing fixed odds betting prices here.

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Winter Olympics

Our Outright fixed odds medals markets are now live for the Winter Olympics.

We have Norway the 13/10 favourites to get most gold medals followed by USA at 9/4, Germany 6/1, Canada 15/2 and Russia 8/1.

Norway are also the favourites to get most medals in total at evens, with USA 21/20, Germany 6/1, Russia 8/1 and Canada 9/1.

See all our latest Winter Olympics spread betting and Winter Olympics fixed odds betting prices here.

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Politics

We are now live with our fixed odds prices on the next UK General Election.

For Most Seats we have Labour 4/7, Conservatives, 5/4, UKIP 100/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 5/4, Conservatives 3/1, UKIP 100/1, Liberal Deomocrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/8.  

Click here to see all our latest politics spread betting and politics fixed odds prices.

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Specials

We have fixed odds outright prices for the latest series of ITV’s Dancing on Ice.

Ray Quinn is the 2/9 favourite, Hayley Tamaddon 6/1, Suzanne Shaw 15/2, Beth Tweddle 16/1, Sam Attwater 28/1, Kyran Bracken 33/1 and Gareth Gates 66/1.

Click here to see all our latest specials spread betting and specials fixed odds prices.

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