A mere four months after his acrimonious sacking from Chelsea, Andre-Villas Boas has been hired on a three-year deal as the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur. Questions still remain over the decision to sack Harry Redknapp after three and a half years of good success and more will be raised by the decision to replace […]
Archive | July 2, 2012
Lucky seven: Paddy’s paying seven places on the Open Championship
Paddy Power has just got back from the pitch and putt and now he’s all giddy about the start of the Open Championship at Lytham St Annes this month. The British Open is the oldest of the four majors and Paddy has got an unbelievable offer lined up as the world’s top golfers fight it […]
Euro 2012 – our Alternative Team of the Tournament
Aidan Elder | Chief Sports Writer We’ve seen some brilliant football over the last few weeks – despite the best efforts of Giovanni Trapattoni and Roy Hodgson. It’s time to honour the best players at the tournament. Not on the Paddy Power Blog though. As Andres Iniesta is named UEFA’s player of Euro 2012, here’s […]
Going for gold: Psycho announces Team GB
By Josh Powell Stuart Pearce has named his squad for the Olympics as Team GB enter a men’s football team for the first time in 52 years. ‘Psycho’ received plenty of criticism last week after making the cardinal sin of overlooking English hero David Beckham. Despite Goldenballs playing fairly average in a slow-paced, poor-standard division there was uproar that he […]
Haye v Chisora: A Dyer promoter for a dire fight
By Rob Dore | boxing comment Either Danny Dyer is the greatest character actor to ever tread the boards or, as the innumerable comments on YouTube so vehemently claim, he is a massive bell-end. Either way his association with this particular production is not out of place. Faux tough guy Dyer has been called in […]
Tiger hits stride ahead of Open Championship
IN THE GROOVE: Woods win at the AT&T saw him overtake Jack Nicklaus with 74 Tour wins (Inpho) By Sean Goff | Sports reporter Driving rain and howling winds are usually associated with links golf but the storms that hit the AT&T Championship in Maryland didn’t stop Tiger Woods. Woods continued on his road to […]
TomKat’s number is finally up… that’s a scientological fact
By Rob Dore The not very surprising news that Katie Holmes has escaped filed for divorce from Tom Cruise broke over the weekend. What we here on the Paddy Power Blog find odd, besides the Scientology stuff, is that this is the third of Tom’s marriages to break down, all of which have ended when […]
New balls please! A super Monday at Wimbledon
By Lee Dover | Wimbledon What a week that was –Newcastle-Upon-Tyne became Newcastle-Under-The-Tyne, the Italians reached the final of a major football tournament without a secret handshake in sight and then there was all that business with those bunch of bankers. It’s been a whirlwind of action and entertainment at the All England Club too, […]
Robbie Fowler: Spain win puts Irish game in context
After Ireland’s exit from Group C everyone had an opinion on how bad the results were. But Robbie Fowler argues that after Spain’s Euro 2012 triumph the results have to be seen in context . Ireland should take some comfort from Spain’s 4-0 win over Italy in the Euro 2012 final last night. I remember when […]
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