16.01.14 Thursday Morning

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Football

The Premier League title race is still wide open after the top seven all won last weekend, helping numerous accas along the way (don’t forget you can place accas via our mobile site too now!).

Champions Manchester United are 33/1 shots to retain their title, but they could shorten those odds with victory at Chelsea – themselves 3/1 to win the league – on Sunday.

The sides met three times at Stamford Bridge last season; United winning 3-2 in the league and the Blues winning 5-4 in the Capital One Cup and 1-0 in the FA Cup. For this one, we have the Supremacy spread betting price as Chelsea/Man United 0.6-0.8.

First up on Saturday sees a resurgent Sunderland take on inconsistent Southampton. The Black Cats have lost just one in their last nine as Gus Poyet starts to influence his style of play while the Saints had won only one in nine in the league before last weekend’s victory over West Brom.

We have the Supremacy price for this one as Southampton/Sunderland (h) 0.1-0.3.

There are then five three o’clock kick-offs; Arsenal/Fulham 1.9-2.1, Palace/Stoke 0.2-0.4, Man City/Cardiff 2.3-2.5, Norwich/Hull 0.15-0.35 and Newcastle/West Ham (h) 0.15-0.35.

The 5.30pm game sees free-scoring Liverpool take on spluttering Aston Villa. Total Goal Minutes made up at 415 in the Reds’ 5-3 win at Stoke on Sunday. TGMs for this one are 167-182.

Tottenham journey to sliding Swansea for Sunday’s 1.30pm game, with the Supremacy price Tottenham/Swansea (h) 0.15-0.35. Chelsea v Man United follows at 4pm before the Monday night game when surprise package Everton travel to West Brom. We have Everton 5/4 favourites to take the win, West Brom 11/5 and the draw 9/4.

With the Champions League last 16 returning next month, 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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Tennis

The weather has been hot enough to make water bottles melt, but Andy Murray kept his cool in round one of his first major since back surgery.

Murray, an 8-1 shot to win the Australian Open, breezed past Go Soeda 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 in his opener, meaning X-Courts made up at just 30 from a spread of 57-65.

This morning (Thursday) he faces Frenchman Vincent Millot in round two with play scheduled to start at around 9.30am UK time. Will it be another stroll in the sun? We have X-Courts at 49-57.

As for our Outright Spread Index (60 to winner, 40 to runner-up, 20 to losing semi-finalists, 10 to losing quarter-finalists and 5 to losing last 16 players), we have Novak Djokovic at 42-45, Rafael Nadal at 25-28, Murray 17-20, Tomas Berdych 15-18, Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro both 12-15 and David Ferrer 9-12.

In the women’s side of the draw, Serena Williams is 42-45, Victoria Azarenka 23-26, Maria Sharapova 17-20, Na Li 15-18, Simona Halep 9-12 and Agnieska Radwanska 8-11.

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

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Snooker

The Masters, billed as snooker’s most prestigious tournament, has reached the quarter-final stage at Alexandra Palace.

We’ll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting prices available on all four matches.

First up of today’s clashes (Thursday) is at 1pm as Marco Fu, conqueror of Judd Trump in round one, takes on Shaun Murphy, who put out Ding Junhui. Our 10-3 Supremacy price is Fu/Murphy 0-3.

Then at 7pm defending champion Mark Selby takes on John Higgins. We have Selby the favourite here with the 10-3 Supremacy price Selby/Higgins 2.5-5.5.

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

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Cricket

England’s miserable tour Down Under continued at the weekend as they were comprehensively dismantled by six wickets with 26 balls remaining in the first ODI against Australia.

The ragged tourists will be hoping somehow to try and restore some pride in the second ODI in Brisbane on Friday.

Our traders don’t give Alastair Cook’s men much hope as they are 5/2 shots and the Aussies 3/10 favourites.

Elsewhere we’ll be covering the Pakistan v Sri Lanka 3rd Test and all the action from the Big Bash.

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

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Golf

The European tour moves from South Africa to the Middle East this week for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship – the first full-field event of 2014.

Jamie Donaldson, whose spread ahead of the start of the tournament was 6-8 on our 80-40-30-25-20-15-10-5 spread betting Leaderboard, is out to defend his title.

Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson were 17-20 on our Leaderboard before the start(11/2 and 7/1 respectively on our fixed odds), Sergio Garcia 15-18 (8/1 on the fixed odds) and Martin Kaymer and Phil Mickelson 9-12 (both 14/1 on our fixed odds).

Some of the top names on the PGA Tour take part in the 55th annual Humana Challenge in California’s Coachella Valley.

Brian Gay, last year’s winner, was a 40/1 shot on our fixed odds prices before the tournament’s start, with Zach Johnson 12/1 favourite, Webb Simpson 14/1, Brandt Snedeker 16/1, Keegan Bradley 18/1, Harris English 20/1 and Billy Horschel, Charles Howell III and Bill Haas all 25/1.

We’re also covering the Mitsubishi Championship where Fred Couples and Bernhard Langer were joint 11/2 favourites before the start.

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

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NFL

The NFL season is now at the Championship match stage – effectively the semi-finals before the Super Bowl takes place at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on February 2nd.
The Playoffs weekend saw Seattle Seahawks down New Orleans Saints 23-15, New England Patriots defeat Indianapolis Colts 43-22, Denver Broncos despatch San Diego Chargers 24-17 and the San Francisco 49ers bury the Carolina Panthers 23-10.

Both Sunday’s matches are on Sky Sports 1 and our traders have the Supremacy prices as Denver/New England 4-6 and Seattle/San Francisco 2.5-4.5.

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

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Rugby

We’re into the final round of European club rugby group games this weekend as the battles for the last eight places in both the Heineken Cup and the Amlin Challenge Cup come to a head.

Today (Thursday) we’re in-play on Bath v Bordeaux in Pool 2 of the Amlin Challenge Cup as the hosts look to make it six wins from six in the competition.

On Friday we’re live on Northampton v Castres and Leinster v Ospreys, both in Pool 1 of the Heineken Cup. Northampton will be out to secure one of the two best runners-up spots to make it through to the knockout stages while Leinster will be aiming to secure progress with victory over bottom club Ospreys.

Across Saturday and Sunday we’ll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting prices on 10 further games across both competitions.

See all our latest rugby spread betting and rugby 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.

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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 4/6 favourite, Hayley Tamaddon 9/2, Suzanne Shaw 15/4, Kyran Bracken 11/1, Beth Tweddle 12/1 and Sam Attwater 20/1.

For our Celebrity Big Brother betting Ollie Locke is the 15/8 favourite to last the distance and come out on top while Jim Davidson is 9/4, Sam Faiers 11/2, Dappy 15/2, Luisa Zissman 11/1, Casey Batchelor 12/1 and Lionel Blair 22/1.

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

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