Liverpool v Aston Villa betting odds
August 24, 2009
Rafa Benitez’s Liverpool side will be looking to kick start their Premier League campaign tonight when they take on last years surprise outfit Aston Villa at Anfield tonight. The game kicks off at 8:00pm and can be watched live on ESPN.
The bookmakers William Hill have a great free bet offer in that if you place a £20 single on this game (only in the 90 minutes market) then you get a free £5 bet to use on the live correct score market in this Premier League clash from Anfield.
Liverpool go into the game with no suspensions but have injury concerns with Skrtel, Agger, Aquilani, El Zhar and Aurelio. They started their season poorly be losing 2-1 away at Spurs but came back to beat Stoke 4-0 last Wednesday but Villa will be a true test of how their season could go.
Villa will be likely to be without Davies, Carew, Downing, Bouma and Young. Villa will be looking to recover from Saturdays game where they were booed off following their 2-0 defeat to Wigan, they also suffered a disappointing 1-0 first round defeat in their Europa League qualifier against Rapid Vienna.
Liverpool v Aston Villa Match Odds
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Espy the favourite for the 5.30 at Windsor
August 24, 2009
The 5.30 race today from Windsor Racecourse is a class 5 flat race for horses aged 3 years and over which is set to have 16 runners in it who will covering a distance of 5 furlongs and 10 yards with the going for the course being set as good to firm.
Boylesports are offering cashback on the race if the starting price favourite wins this race they will refund your losing single stake on the second placed horse thi will apply to win singles and win part of each way singles.
Paddy Power have a great betting cash back offer on the racing today from Windsor Racecourse, if your horse finishes in second place to a horse with a smaller starting price in the race they will refund your losing single stake. The favourite for the race according to the bookmakers Paddy Power is Espy at 11/2 with the second favourite being Comptonspirit at odds of 6/1. The Free Bets Blog tip for today race is the 12/1 shot Colorus.
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European Grand Prix betting odds
August 21, 2009
After its three week break the world of Formula 1 continues with the The European Grand Prix this coming Sunday and Rubens Barrichello is ahead on the time charts after the first practice session, but the British hopeful Jenson Button will be hoping that his Brawn team have fixed the problems that the Brawn car was experiencing and have a renewed push for his Championship hopes. The car problems have seen him away from the podium on the last three races and his points lead has gone down to just 18.5 points.
Lewis Hamilton the defending world champion is also hoping for another joyful weekend after he claimed his first victory for McLaren in the Hungarian Grand Prix which also saw the Australian Mark Webber gain more points edging him closer to Button.
Valencia Grand Prix Race Odds
| Bet365 | Ladbrokes | Stan James | |
| Sebastian Vettel | 3/1 | 11/4 | 14/5 |
| Mark Webber | 5/1 | 4/1 | 9/2 |
| Jenson Button | 6/1 | 5/1 | 13/2 |
| Lewis Hamilton | 12/5 | 9/4 | 12/5 |
| Rubens Barrichello | 12/1 | 12/1 | 12/1 |
| Heikki Kovalainen | 12/1 | 14/1 | 12/1 |
| Kimi Raikkonen | 14/1 | 11/1 | 16/1 |
| Fernando Alonso | 14/1 | 10/1 | 14/1 |
| Jarno Trulli | 66/1 | 50/1 | 66/1 |
| Timo Glock | 80/1 | 66/1 | 80/1 |
| Nico Rosberg | 28/1 | 20/1 | 25/1 |
| Robert Kubica | 100/1 | 66/1 | 125/1 |
| Romain Grosjean | 125/1 | 66/1 | 100/1 |
| Nick Heidfeld | 200/1 | 100/1 | 150/1 |
| Kazuki Nakajima | 150/1 | 125/1 | 100/1 |
| Sebastien Buemi | 300/1 | 200/1 | 200/1 |
| Jaime Alguersuari | 1000/1 | 300/1 | 200/1 |
| Adrian Sutil | 300/1 | 200/1 | 175/1 |
| Giancarlo Fisichella | 300/1 | 250/1 | 250/1 |
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Get your betting money back on scorebore draws this weekend
August 21, 2009
The punters friend Boylesports have had enough of boring nil-nil Premier League matches and they don’t want their customers to back boring games either, so if you place a bet on any of this weekends Premier league games (22nd, 23rd and 24th August) and the match finishes 0-0 they will refund ALL losing single bets on the match.
There are some potential high scoring games this coming weekend, but if however you enjoy watching a match that contains no goals whatsoever, then the odds of a 0-0 result are below:
22nd August
- Arsenal v Portsmouth – 16/1
- Birmingham v Stoke – 8/1
- Hull v Bolton – 8/1
- Man City v Wolves – 12/1
- Sunderland v Blackburn – 8/1
- Wigan v Man United – 11/1
23rd August
24th August
- Liverpool v Aston Villa – 12/1
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Bloodgate creates a wave of betting on Rugby Union cheats
August 20, 2009
Following the shocking news that the Harlequins ex rugby director Dean Richards was responsible for orchestrating the fake blood injury of Tom Williams in the Heineken Cup tie with Leinster in what has become known as “Bloodgate” the bookmaker Paddy Power is betting on the next rugby Club to be fined by the European Rugby Cup panel (ERC) for a faked injury.
Bloodgate Incident
Footage from the game where Williams can be seen to clearly wink to the bench!
Next club to be fined by the ERC for a faked injury
- 6/5 – Harlequins
- 2/1 – Bath
- 6/1 – London Wasps
- 10/1 – Sale Sharks
- 12/1 – Leicester Tigers
- 12/1 – London Irish
- 14/1 – Gloucester
- 16/1 – Leeds
- 18/1 -Newcastle Falcons
- 18/1 – Saracens
- 25/1 – Northampton Saints
- 20/1 – Worcester Warriors
- 25/1 – Stade Francais
- 33/1 – Perpignan
- 50/1 – Cardiff
- 66/1 – Leinster
- 66/1 – Munster
- 66/1 – Ulster
- 66/1 – Connacht
Bloodgate Aftermath
Following the admissions of the fake injury Tom William was banned for 12 months (later reduced to 4), Dean Richards was banned for 3 years and Harlequins were fined £260,000.
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Burnley vs Manchester Utd bettting odds
August 19, 2009
Burnley will be hoping to get some points tonight to give them a start to their Premiership campaign, but their second game following their promotion from the Coca Cola Championship as the play off winners is against the current champions Manchester United.
The match tonight at Turf Moor will be the first time in 33 years that top flight football has been played there and The Clarets will be expecting a full house and looking to get over their 2-0 defeat against Stoke, last season in cup competitions Burnley managed to lay waste to Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham and West Brom, so a scalp here is not out of the question for Owen Coyle’s side.
Match Odds
Burnley’s woes will be compounded by the absences of captain Steven Caldwell who is unlikely to recover from a groin problem and Michael Duff has a problem ankle, United look set to be without Rio Ferdinand who is out for 2 weeks with a thigh injury.
First Goal Scorer Odds
- Wayne Rooney – 3/1
- Dimitar Berbatov – 7/2
- Michael Owen – 7/2
- Federico Macheda – 5/1
- Danny Welbeck – 6/1
- Ryan Giggs - 9/1
- Luis Nani – 10/1
- Park Ji-Sung – 10/1
- Paul Scholes – 11/1
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Will Tiger Woods be out of luck again in 2010?
August 19, 2009
The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power who are famous for paying out early when they think the outcome of the sporting event cannot be changed paid out on Tiger Woods to win the USPGA before he had teed off for the third round last Saturday but somehow Tiger managed to lose his four shot lead resulting in Paddy Power paying out over £1.25 million when they did not need to!
Tigers 2010 Odds
Tiger will be looking to bounce back and make one of 2010′s upcoming Masters his own.
Tigers Next Major
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Cashback Betting Offer – Day 1 of York’s Ebor Meeting
August 18, 2009
The first day of York’s Ebor meeting kicks off at 1:45 on Tuesday afternoon and our friends at Paddy Power have come up with a special betting offer for anybody looking to get this four day meeting off to a winning start in the Symphony Group Stakes. Paddy Power will be refunding your losing stake if your selection finishes second in this race.
With 20 runners going to post and the odds 6/1 the field, punter will have their work cut out to find the winner of this handicap but we at Free Bets Blog can hopefully point you in the right direction with our tip for this race, Buachaill Dona. The Dnady Nicholls runner has winning form over today’s course and distance and showed signs that his second win of the season shouldn’t be too far away when runer up in the Shergar Cup Dash at Ascot last week. He is a 13/2 chance and looks a solid bet with the insurance of getting your money back if he finishes second.
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Celtic v Arsenal Champions League Betting Offer
August 17, 2009
It’s the first leg of the battle of Britain at Celtic Park on Tuesday night when Celtic take on Arsenal in the Champions League match that will see the winner over two legs progress to the group stages of the Champions League.
Arsenal are the 2/9 favourites with Paddy Power to make it to the group stages whilst Celtic are a 3/1 chance.
Arsenal kicked off their domestic campaign in style at the weekend with a 6-1 demolition over Everton at Goodison Park, a result that is sure to give Arsene Wenger’s side plenty of confidence heading in to Tuesday’s game.
Cesc Fabregas scored two of Arsenal’s six goals on Saturday and Paddy Power’s cash back betting offer on this game centres around the Spanish midfielder with the Irish bookmaker refunding all first and last goalscorer, correct score and scorecast bets if Fabregas scores at any time during the game!
Australia look to be the favourites in 5th test betting odds
August 17, 2009
The 5th and final test of the 2009 Ashes series starts on the 20th August and England fans all over the world will be sitting on a knife edge as they watch the stumps at the Oval hoping that the England team will show the resolve that started to appear towards the end of the 4th test defeat at Headingly and not the complete collapse that was also present at Headingly. However it is Australia that is pushing ahead in the betting stakes available from Victor Chandler.
5th test outright odds
The Ashes 2009 odds
With the 1st and 3rd tests resulting in a draw and England and Australia winning 1 series a piece it all rests on the 5th and final test to see who will take away the Ashes in 2009.
Top Overall English Batsman
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