Weekly Sports Update

18.12.14 Thursday Morning



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Darts

Let's all do the oche cokey! Tonight (Thursday) heralds the start of two weeks of arrers actions from Alexandra Palace and our blogger has been analysing the PDC World Championship Darts betting.

We'll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting prices on every game from now until the final on January 4th, 2015 as well as a host of outrights and specials such as Session Markets, Group Betting, Tournament 180s and Round 1 Specials.

Phil Taylor is the 6/4 favourite ahead of last year's champion Michael van Gerwen at 2/1.


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Football

The Premier League title race has been given some renewed interest with Man City (5/2) now just three points behind Chelsea (4/9) and in-form Man United (10/1) eight points off the summit.

The big match this weekend is Liverpool v Arsenal at 4pm on Sunday with Liverpool 9/5, Arsenal 6/4, the draw 12/5 and our spread betting Goal Supremacy Arsenal/Liverpool (h) 0 – 0.2.

Saturday's action starts with Man City hosting Crystal Palace with the Citizens 1/4 for the win, Palace 11/1, the draw 9/2 and our spread betting Goal Supremacy Man City/Palace 1.65 – 1.85.

There are then six 3 o'clock kick-offs with our spread betting Goal Supremacy prices as follows; Man United/Aston Villa (h) 0.85 – 1.05, Swansea/Hull (h) 0.05 – 0.25, QPR/West Brom 0.1 – 0.3, Southampton/Everton 0.05 – 0.25, Tottenham/Burnley 1.1 – 1.3, West Ham/Leicester 0.8 – 1.

Sunday starts with the Tyne-Wear derby with Newcastle 21/20 to get the three points, Sunderland 14/5, the draw 9/4 and the spread betting Goal Supremacy Newcastle/Sunderland 0.35 – 0.55.

Arsenal v Sunderland follows at 4pm before Monday night's game sees Stoke host leaders Chelsea with the Potters 5/1, Chelsea 8/13, the draw 14/5 and the spread betting Goal Supremacy quote Chelsea/Stoke (h) 0.8 – 1.

As always we'll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting on every Premier League and La Liga game as well as scores of other matches from across the globe.

Remember to use our Cash Out feature to close out fixed odds bets at any time during a match and our Coupon functionality to see all bets of one type across different leagues on the same page.


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Christmas Hamper/TV special

The annual Spreadex ‘Christmas Hamper' spread betting market is now live based on the make-ups of 12 outcomes over the festive period.

The spread takes in cricket, basketball, racing, football, NFL, darts and even the weather! Take on our Hamper and have an interest on a variety of sports events up until Tuesday, December 20th.

As far as our TV special betting goes, with X-Factor, I'm A Celebrity and Sports Personality of the Year now all decided, it's all down to the final of Strictly Come Dancing with Caroline Flack the 4/7 favourite, Frankie Bridge 21/20, Simon Webbe 9/1 and Mark Wright 12/1.


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Horse Racing

The Ascot Christmas Racing Weekend tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday is the highlight of this weekend's racing with the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle at 3.35pm on Saturday the focus for punters.

Zarkandar is the 5/4 favourite ahead of Medinas at 3/1 and Reve De Sivola at 4/1.

Keep an eye on our website from Friday onwards for our free Timeform Christmas Festivals e-guide which offers Antepost tips, form guide and expert opinion on all the big meetings over the Christmas period including the Boxing Day Winter Festival from Kempton.


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Rugby

It's the first round of matches to take place in the Aviva Premiership since the end of last month with leaders Northampton Saints entertaining Leicester Tigers in a mouth-watering clash at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday.

Second placed Bath are at Gloucester and third placed Exeter at Sale while Saracens host London Welsh.

We'll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting prices on a host of games across the Aviva Premiership, RaboDirect Pro12 and Top 14.


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Cricket

After England fell to a dismal 5-2 ODI series defeat in Sri Lanka, the pressure again mounts on captain Alastair Cook, with a decision on his captaincy for the World Cup next year expected at the weekend.

England remain 12/1 shots to win the World Cup with hosts Australia 14/5 favourites ahead of South Africa at 4/1, India 9/2, Sri Lanka 7/1, New Zealand 8/1 and Pakistan 9/1.

Ahead of that we'll have in-play fixed odds and spread betting on the South Africa v West Indies 1st Test and Australia v India 2nd Test.


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Golf

Our golf coverage this week focuses on the inaugural Dubai Open featuring an assortment of entrants from the Asian Tour, European Tour and MENA Golf Tour.

We'll have a range of in-play fixed odds and spread betting prices available on that tournament plus we have longer-term outright prices available for The Masters, US Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship.


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Tennis

Our tennis coverage this weekend comes from the Ankara Cup on the women's circuit.

We also have long-term prices out for the first major of the new season in January next year, the Australian Open.

Novak Djokovic leads the betting in the men's side of the draw at 5/4 ahead of Rafael Nadal at 9/2, Roger Federer at 6/1 and Andy Murray at 8/1 while Serena Williams is the 7/4 favourite on the women's side of the draw.


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American Football

Green Bay slipped to a 21-13 defeat to Buffalo last week seeing them slip to 9/2 in the outright Superbowl betting behind Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks, both at 15/4, and New England at 3/1.

We'll have in-play NFL fixed odds and spread betting on nine matches this weekend with our spread betting Points Supremacy prices on our live games as follows; Jacksonville/Tennessee 2.5 – 4.5, Philadelphia/Washington 6.5 – 8.5, San Francisco/San Diego 0.5 – 2.5, New Orleans/Atlanta 5 – 7, Pittsburgh/Kansas City 2 – 4, Dallas/Indianapolis 2 – 4, Buffalo/Oakland 4.5 – 6.5, Seattle/Arizona 7 – 9 and Denver/Cincinnati 3 - 5.


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Basketball

We have in-play fixed odds and spread betting on Oklahoma City @ Golden State in the NBA plus Colorado @ Pittsburgh and Washington @ Columbus in the NHL during the early hours of Friday morning UK-time.

We'll have non-live coverage of other NBA and NHL games as well as long term fixed odds and spread betting prices across both sports.


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Politics

It's nip and tuck for the betting ahead of the next general election in May.

Labour remain slight favourites to get most seats at 5/6, the Conservatives 19/20, UKIP are 40/1 and the Lib Dems 400/1.

In terms of overall majority, no overall majority is 2/5, Labour majority is 9/2, Conservative majority 4/1, UKIP majority is 80/1 and Lib Dem majority is 200/1.

As for Next Prime Minister after David Cameron betting, Ed Miliband is 11/10 favourite, Boris Johnson 11/2, Theresa May 10/1, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper 12/1, George Osborne and Chuka Umunna 16/1, David Milliband 18/1 and Nigel Farage 22/1.


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