Dangling the particularly attractive carrot of free booze, food and bets for the Haye versus Klitschko fight had a lot of our customers pouring their hearts out as to why they deserved a Paddy Power Party. We got an eclectic mix of the bizarre, crude, offensive and fawning entrants. Tina Crawford claimed her boyfriend is
Archive | June, 2011
Daily Video: WTF? Special
Somewhere in some marketing department someone recently had a thought along the lines of the following ‘You know who’s truly inspirational? You know what would give David Haye the crucial bit of added motivation ahead of his huge fight with Wladimir Klitschko? A four second clip of Fabio Capello making an insincere claim complete with […]
The Top 5 Unoriginal Players To Watch At The Copa America
1. Lionel Messi (Argentina) And now for my next trick – I’ll predict the winner of the 2010 Grand National. Identifying Messi as one to watch the Copa America is about as original as Dennis Leary’s standout up act, but hear me out. In the colours of Barca, the regularity of Messi’s slaloming, physics-mocking dribbles […]
Prince Harry Hooks Up With Someone Once In Paddy Power Marketing Campaign Or Something
This morning started with the sound of excessive back-slapping and mutual adoration amongst the folks who make up the Paddy Power marketing department – so basically in the same way as every other morning. Today, the back-slapping was a little louder than normal as not for the first time in their history, they were happily […]
(Apparently) Breaking News: Kiltschko is from Kazakhstan
Many of you might believe that all the Paddy Power marketing team do is gather in a penthouse, drink copious amounts of champagne and develop hair-brained ideas that make little or no sense. Or just invite Imogen Thomas around to pose in a Man Utd jersey and take photos of her. You’d be wrong. They […]
Haye vs Klitschko Betting – An Expert Traders View
One of Paddy Power’s chief Boxing traders Mark Lynch previews the biggest heavyweight contest in many a year – Wladimir Klitschko V David Haye. He offers some sharp betting advice and makes a precise round prediction. – Haye v Klitschko Betting – Haye v Klitschko Round Betting – Haye v Klitschko Knockout Odds
Video: David Haye Career Highlights
Here’s a highlight reel of Haye’s career so far.
Win A Free Bigger Than £/€50 Free Bet
In keeping with the recent theme of trying to seem like we know what’s going on by tying our Weekly Whose Career Is It Anyway to something topical, this week our collection of flags tackles the world of boxing. This week sees the girlish bitching between David Haye and Wladimir Klitchsko, hopefully culminating with some […]
Video: Dos Santos is actually a good player, we swear!!!
For whatever reasons, former Barcelona starlet Giovanni Dos Santos has struggled to get his club career going since leaving the Camp Nou. So desperate have things been that he actually spent time on loan at Ipswich. The poor fella. When you look at this goal from the Gold Cup final, you can see why he […]
We Have A Winner …
Shameless flattery, a picture of women’s bums and a trillion pound note abounded amongst the entries for last week’s blog competition. I wouldn’t have minded having the real version of the trillion pound note, but when it came to some of those arses … meh. I don’t want to be overly mean, but let’s just […]
Daily Video: Sore Losers Special
Late last night, when members of the Paddy Power Journalists’ Team were busying sleeping, harassing the female nightclub going population of Dublin and making a scale model of the Titanic out of bread in his basement respectively, South America crowned their continental club champions. The Copa Libertadores is like their version of the Champions League, […]
Downing Not Talking Bollox Says PP Expert
We’re prepared to let a lot of things slide during the horror of silly season. As the annual ‘Cesc Fabregas to Barca’ story began yet again, we embraced it as if it was the first time we’d heard it and not as if it was the umpteenth rehashing of a tedious storyline we’d seen hundreds […]
Haye v Klitschko Betting – Face To Face
The countdown is on to the biggest heavyweight fight in years and if anyone doubts the animosity between David Haye and Wlad Klitschko, you only have to look at NBC’s “Face Off” between the pugilists below. Cynically and not being a huge boxing fan, I would have prejudged this as another PR exercise to promote […]
Top 5 Worst Bits Of Chelsea Business Of The Abramovich Era
Andre Vilas-Boas is on his way to Chelsea and already the mind-numbingly boring transfer speculation has gone into overdrive. Considering Roman Abramovich is paying millions out of his own pocket to bring the young Portuguese manager to London, it’s highly likely that some serious player investment is on the way. Will he take Porto’s most […]
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