Will penalties be Englands failing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

England fans are clearly disappointed in the result yesterday when England took on Japan in their final pre World Cup friendly. The result may have gone England’s way (England won 2-1) but the fact that Japan had scored all the goals in game (including 2 own goals) soured the result. If this is how we play against a fairly mediocre team, who are currently placed 45 in the FIFA rankings system compared to England’s number 8 position.

Another major disappointment from the match was the failing of midfielder Frank Lampard to score from the spot. The Chelsea player was denied by Japan’s keeper Eiji Kawashima who saved the penalty that was awarded in the 10th minute of the second half following Keisuke Honda’s handball in the area. Whether Lampard will be the choice take penalties in the World Cup will be a decision England head coach Fabio Capello must seriously consider.

World Cup Penalty specials

• 10/3 – England to miss first World Cup Penalty
• 1/5 – England to score first World Cup Penalty
• 7/2 – England to win a penalty shoot out during 2010 World Cup
• 7/2 – England to be eliminated from World Cup via penatly shoot out

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Spellbound are on of the early favourites for Britains Got Talent 2010

The fun part of ITV1s talent show Britain’s Got Talent has now finished and we no longer get to see the auditions of the criminally insane as the show now moves onto the live semi finals and gets a tad more serious. Last night the judges chose 40 acts from the 200 that they had given call back from the first round. Over the next five weeks the remaining acts will compete against each other and the winner from each of the 5 semi finals will then go on to perform in the live final.

Of all the acts that have been shown, one has stood out from the normal crowd of opera singers and street dancers and that is the Gymnastic act Spellbound who wowed the audience and judging panel (even hard face Simon Cowell) with their jaw dropping gymnastic act, they have also become an internet sensation on You Tube gaining millions of views.

Britains Got Talent 2010 Outright Winner

Odds are correct as of 31st May and are supplied by Victor Chandler and are for the 10 top acts.

• 5/2 – Spellbound
• 7/1 – Liam McNally
• 8/1 – Olivia Archbold
• 9/1 – Connected
• 14/1 – Tobias Mead
• 14/1 – Christopher Stone
• 14/1 – Peridot
• 16/1 – Paul Burling
• 20/1 – Janey Cutler
• 25/1 – Twist and Pulse

Spellbound on Britains Got Talent

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Will Millwall prevail in the League One play off final?

Tension is high in the Millwall squad as they head off for Wembley Stadium for the second year running to take part in the League One play off final. A win here for Millwall will end their four year absence from the Championship. Just 12 months ago at Wembley a goal from Scunthorpe in the 85th minute meant a 3-2 defeat for Millwall which kept the Lions in the third tear of English football.

However facing Kenny Jackett’s side is an invigorated Swindon side who at the start of the season were looking more at heading to the opposite end of the table after being beaten 5-0 by the likes of Gillingham. In the play off finals against Charlton they were 2-0 down and by 60 minutes were reduced to 10 men but managed to come back and win the game on penalties.

Millwall be boosted by their last game against Swindon which was the last game of the season for both teams which resulted in a 3-2 win for Millwall against Danny Wilson’s Robins.

Outright match odds

All odds come direct from Ladbrokes and it looks like the odds are in favour for a Millwall win and heartbreak is on the cards for Swindon.

• 11/10 – Millwall win
• 12/5 – Draw
• 12/5 – Swindon win

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Stake back offer on the Stanley Cup with Partybets

Time to dig out the Jason Voorhees ice hockey mask and get ready for the Stanley Cup final which is this years between the Blackhawks and the Flyers. The Chicago Blackhawks are the Western Conference champions and go into the tie as favourites against the Philadelphia Flyers.

The Flyers have been quite a surprise this season and have caused minor upsets by beating Boston, Montreal and New Jersey. The Blackhawks will be banking on having the home advantage in what should prove to be an exciting Stanley Cup series.

The internet bookmakers Partybets are running a cash back offer on the Stanley Cup. If any game in this years Stanley Cup goes into overtime then they will refund all losing bets made on the 1.2 and 1×2 markets. To be eligible for this promotion you need to opt-in via your Party Account.

Stanley Cup Fixtures

The qualifying fixtures for the stake bet back offer are listed below:

• Sunday 30th May at Chicago, 02:00 CET.
• Tuesday, 1st June at Chicago, 02:00 CET.
• Thursday, 3rd June at Philadelphia, 02:00 CET.
• Saturday, 5th June at Philadelphia, 02:00 CET.
• Monday, 7th June at Chicago, 02:00 CET.
• Thursday, 10th June at Philadelphia, 02:00 CET.
• Saturday, 12th June at Chicago, 02:00 CET.

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England are favourite to win in last friendly before 2010 World Cup

England and Japan are both facing their last international friendly on Sunday ahead of the 2010 World Cup, unusually the game will take place in Austria at the UPC-Arena in Graz it is the home stadium of SK Sturm Graz and Grazer AK and was formerly known as the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadion. It will be both managers last chance to field their players and make their ultimate decisions on which players they will be taking with them to South Africa.

England v Japan odds

• 2/7 – England win
• 4/1 – Japan win
• 17/2 – Draw

Bookmakers Paddy Power are running a money back special on this last England friendly match. They will return your losing stake on all losing first and last goal scorer bets if the last goal of the game is scored via a header. This offer also applies to the correct score and scorecast singles on the game.

England striker specials

Fabio Capello has a great opportunity to try out all of his strikers in this match before he decides who to take with him to South Africa.

• 4/5 – Wayne Rooney to score in 90 minutes and England to win the match
• 7/5 – Darren Bent to score in 90 minutes and England to win the match
• 5/4 – Jermain Defoe to score in 90 minutes and England to win the match
• 5/4 – Peter Crouch to score in 90 minutes and England to win the match
• 9/5 – Emile Heskey to score in 90 minutes and England to win the match

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Who will replace U2 at this years Glastonbury Festival?

Music fans around the UK will be very disappointed to hear that U2′s front man Bono (real name Paul David Hewson) has had to undergo emergency surgery on his back to save him from possible paralysis leaving him out of action for at least 2 month, which has resulted in U2 having to cancel all of their North American tour and their headline spot on June 25th at this years Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom. The three day festival is attended annually by over 170,000 music fans and was last year headlined by Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Blur.

Fans to the 2010 festival will still be able to enjoy the musical expertise of Muse and Stevie Wonder but it now looks like Dizzee Rascal who was the second highest act on the Friday night bill will be promoted to the headline act, however some people will not believe that Mr. Rascal is big enough to step into the shoes of U2 as a headline act and that a big act will be brought in to replace them but as the show is only just over 3 weeks away time is of the essence.

Favourite to replace U2

Which group will take U2′s place on Friday as the headline act on the Pyramid Stage

• 5/4 – Dizzee Rascal
• 11/8 – Coldplay
• 6/1 – Groove Armada
• 6/1 – Faithless
• 8/1 – Florence & The Machine
• 16/1 -Scissor Sisters
• 40/1 – Lily Allen
• 18/1 – Paul McCartney
• 33/1 – Kings of Leon
• 33/1 – Rihanna
• 33/1 – Led Zeppelin
• 40/1 – Kylie
• 40/1 - David Bowie
• 50/1 – Noel Gallagher
• 66/1 – Jay-Z

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Azerbaijan still favourite to win the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest

This weekend sees the eagerly awaited 2010 Eurovision Song Contest which this year comes from the Telenor Arena in Oslo in Norway. Each year the contest is hosted by the previous years winner and last year Norway’s Alexander Rybak won with the song “Fairtytale”, he was favourite to win pretty much from the start of betting and this year it looks like being no different as Azerbaijan have been quoted as the favourites since betting opened with the song Drip Drop performed by the sultry Safura Alizade.

England’s chances of winning this year look very slim even though they are backed by the Pete Waterman written and produced song “It’s My Time” sung by the winner of You’re Country Needs You; Josh Dubovie, however the odds have come down somewhat from 100/1 and are now showing at odds of 66/1 but with the competition starting on Saturday night the odds are unlikely to come down any more, but for a £1 bet it might be worth a go!

Eurovision Song Contest outright betting

With over 30 countries taking part in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest this year we take a look at the top 15 rated countries, the odds have been supplied by Paddy Power.

• 11/7 – Azerbaijan
• 4/1 – Germany
• 9/1 – Israel
• 10/1 – Denmark
• 10/1 – Armenia
• 16/1 – Ireland
• 16/1 – Sweden
• 20/1 – Croatia
• 25/1 – Norway
• 33/1 – Greece
• 33/1 – Belgium
• 33/1 – Iceland
• 33/1 – Turkey
• 66/1 – United Kingdom
• 66/1 – Slovakia
• 80/1 – Spain

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Win a luxury holiday courtesy of William Hill if you can guess Fabios World Cup squad

After a successful night against Mexico in a friendly game that England comfortably won 3-1. Fabio Capello has a few tough choices to make as to who he will have to exclude from his 30 man squad when he announces his World Cup 23 man squad for South Africa at the end of May following his sides next friendly against Japan.

The bookies William Hill think this is quite a tough choice too and are reaching out to their customers to see if they can guess who Capello will take with him. They are running a competition to see if a punter can correctly guess the 23 man squad and the lucky winners will receive one of five luxury holidays.

To be eligible to enter the competition you will need to be a William Hill customer, if you have not already signed up you need to do so quickly as there are just 5 days to go before Fabio’s deadline approaches.

Once you have your William Hill account you can then enter the competition by going to the website and selecting the 23 players you believe that Fabio will take with him, you can choose any 4 wild card players if you think that Fabio will choose from outside of his hand picked 30 man squad.

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King Of Eden favourite for the 4.45 from Carlisle

The 4.45 race from Carlisle Racecourse is a class 6 race for horses aged 4 years and over and they will be covering a distance of 5 furlongs and 193 yards and it will feature 12 runners with the going for the course being set to good to firm.

Paddypower are running a money back special on this race today. If you choose a horse to win the race and it only manages to get into second place but is beaten by and up to including a neck then they will refund your losing single stake.

The favourite for the race is King Of Eden at odds of 5/2 and ridden by David Allan but it may struggle with the distance of this race, the second favourite falls to Imperial Djay ridden by jockey Phillip Makin who is showing at odds of 11/2. The freebetsblog.com tip for this race is Fyodorovich ridden by James Sullivan, the horse has came 4th in recent outings so should be worth a small each way bet for the cautious punter and is currently on 16/1.

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Will Fabio’s England squad be ready for friendly against Mexico?

Fabio Capello’s England side go out for their last friendly match on home soil against fellow World Cup qualifiers Mexico at Wembley Stadium on Monday 30th May before they jet off to the World Cup in South Africa. The side that England head coach fields should be a good indication of who will make the final cut for when he announces the official England twenty three man world cup squad. He will have one last chance to experiment with his side on the 30th May when England play Japan in another pre world cup friendly.

England are the clear favourites to beat Mexico in this international match but England fans will not just be looking at the overall result of the game but will be more interested in how the players are gelling as a team and if any weaknesses in the side are obvious for Fabio and his backroom staff to adjust in time for the World Cup.

England v Mexico match odds

• 4/9 – England
• 3/1 – Draw
• 6/1 – Mexico

Bookmakers Paddy Power are running a cash back offer on this friendly game. If the last goal of the game is scored from outside the box then they will refund all of the losing first and last goal scorers as well as correct score and scorecast singles made on the match.

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