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With club matters done and dusted for the season it's all eyes on Brazil - so to get all the info and stats on the teams, read our free 2014 World Cup Betting E-guide.

Our first World Cup group game fixed odds and spread betting prices are now live. England's first match against Italy is a tough one to call - our traders give Italy the edge slightly on the Supremacy price of Italy/England 0-0.2 while the fixed odds are England 21/10, Italy 6/4, the draw 15/8.

On Friday night England face Peru in friendly action at Wembley. Our Supremacy price is England/Peru 1.55 - 1.75 while the fixed odds have England 1/4, Peru 10/1 and the draw 17/4.

With Luis Suarez likely to miss much of the World Cup, England's odds have shortened from 28/1 to 25/1 to lift the trophy, from 12/1 to 10/1 to reach the final and from 12/5 to 21/10 to win Group D.

Our World Cup spread betting tournament specials include selections such as Total Goals, Yellow Cards, Red Cards, Corners, Total Goal Minutes, Headed Goals, Headed Goal Minutes, 90 Min Penalties Scored, Shootout Penalties Scored, Time of Fastest Goal and Time of Fastest Red Card.

Click here to see our football spread betting and football fixed odds betting prices.

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Tennis

There have been a number of shocks already on the clay at Roland Garros in the early rounds of the second major of the tennis season.

Australian Open champions Stan Warwinka and Na Li are both already out of the French Open as is women’s number one seed Serena Williams. As always we’ll be offering a full range of fixed odds and spread betting prices on all the action with in-play betting on up to four matches at a time.

After seeing off Marinko Matosevic in straight sets in the second round today (Thursday), Andy Murray takes on Philipp Kohlschreiber in round three on Saturday. The two have only ever once met once before in Monte Carlo in 2010 with the German beating Murray convincingly 6-2, 6-1 on that occasion.

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

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Boxing

It's time for the talking to stop and the fighting to begin as Carl Froch and George Groves are reunited in the ring at Wembley on Saturday night.

After Froch won in controversial circumstances in the sixth round in Manchester first time around last November, our traders have him as the 4/6 favourite with Groves 13/10 and a draw 25/1. Fight Minutes are priced at 25.25 - 26.75.

We'll also have fixed odds and spread betting on all the undercard fights from 6.30pm onwards featuring Anthony Joshua v Matt Legg, Jamie McDonnell v Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat, Kevin Mitchell v Ghislain Maduma and James DeGale v Brandon Gonzales.

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

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Rugby

The domestic season reaches a climax on Saturday when Saracens, beaten in the Heineken Cup final by Toulon last weekend, take on Northampton in the Aviva Premeirship Final at Twickenham.

Saries are the 8/13 favourites, with Saints 7/5 and the draw 18/1. Our Points Supremacy quote is Saracens/Northampton 2 - 4.

Toulon, fresh from their victory at the Millennium Stadium, take on Castres in the Top 14 final. Toulon are the strong 2/7 favourites with Castres 3/1 and the draw 16/1. The Points Supremacy quote is Toulon/Castres 6 - 9.

In the RaboDirect Pro12 final, Leinster are 1/3 favourites, Glasgow are 5/2 and the draw is 18/1 with the Points Supremacy quote Leinster/Castres 6 - 9.

Our rugby league coverage features live and non-live betting on all the clashes in the Super League and NRL.

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

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Cricket

Our new Cricket In-Play Match Centre has been designed to enhance your live cricket fixed odds and spread betting experience with Spreadex.

As well as showing a ball-by-ball update on the action and providing a Scorecard displaying, wickets, number of 4s, 6s and wides, the Match Centre also shows live graphs of each teams' run rate, Worm (which plots the total runs as they are accumulated across overs) and Manhattan (which shows the runs per over across the innings in a bar chart).

See the Match Centre in action for yourself for our latest IPL and Natwest T20 Blast live betting.

For every IPL game and selected Natwest T20 Blast games we'll have a range of Player Performance markets (a spread based on points awarded to players on the following basis; 1 point per run, 10 per catch, 20 per wicket and 25 per stumping) and spread betting specials (Total Sixes, Total Fours, Total Wides, 50 Ups, Multi-Wides, Multi-Sixes, Multi-Fours etc.) available before the start of the game.

During the matches themselves we'll be in-play with a host of fixed odds, spread betting and binary markets to play on. Today's (Thursday's) IPL clashes feature Kolkata v Bangalore and Chennai v Hyderabad.

Our long term fixed odds prices for 2015 Cricket World Cup winner have Australia as 10/3 favourites, South Africa 9/2, India 5/1, Sri Lanka 13/2, Pakistan and New Zealand 8/1 and England 9/1.

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

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Golf

Our live golf betting this week takes in the Memorial from Dublin, the Nordea Masters in Malmo, Sweden, the Principal Charity Classic from Wakonda Club, Iowa and the Shoprite LPGA Classic from New Jersey.

All eyes will be on Rory McIllroy to see if the Irishman can follow up his victory at the BMW PGA Championship last week, which he secured just days after his split with fiancée Caroline Wozniacki.

Elsewhere, we also have long term fixed odds prices available for the US Open, Open Championship, USPGA Championship and the Ryder Cup.

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

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Darts

After seeing off fellow countryman Michael van Gerwen to claim the Premier League of Darts title last week, Raymond van Barneveld will compete in the Dubai Masters in confident mood.

The Dutchman takes on Adrian Lewis in the quarter-finals and is 4/5 to win with Lewis even money. The 10-3 Leg Supremacy price is van Barneveld/Lewis 0 - 3.

Our spread betting 10-3 Leg Supremacy market prices (spread based on 10 points awarded for a win plus a further 3 points per leg won by) for this evening's other matches are; Chisnall/Whitlock 0 - 3, Taylor/Wright 9 -12 and van Gerwen/Wade 12 - 15.

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

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American Sports

We're now offering player goal minutes on in-play games in the National Hockey League throughout the play-offs. Our live betting in the early hours of Friday morning is Montreal @ NY Rangers.

In the NBA we have in-play betting on Oklahoma City @ San Antonio.

In the MLB we're live on Texas @ Minnesota and Detroit @ Oakland with non-live prices on the rest of the round of matches.

See all our latest American Sports spread betting and American sports fixed odds betting prices here.

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Politics

The Scottish Independence Referendum takes place on September 18th and our traders reckon it's going to end as a 'No' vote.

That's 2/7 to be the outcome while a 'Yes' vote is 5/2.

We also have prices on the next General Election. For Most Seats we have Labour 4/5, Conservatives even money, UKIP 66/1 and Liberal Democrats 150/1.

For Overall Majority we have Labour 15/8, Conservatives 5/2, UKIP 80/1, Liberal Democrats 200/1 and No Overall Majority 11/10.

We also have markets live for who will be the next Prime Minister after David Cameron.

Ed Milliband is 9/10 favourite followed by Boris Johnson at 10/1, Theresa May at 14/1, Yvette Cooper 14/1, Phillip Hammond 20/1 and George Osborne, Michael Gove and William Hague all 25/1.

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

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