By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer It’s all about the curse. That pesky curse. It’s 61 years since Sam Maguire was brought triumphantly across the borders of Mayo and it’s all down to a spell cast on the county’s footballers. Possibly. The story goes that a priest whose name no-one seems to remember or […]
Archive | August, 2012
Premier League match preview: Southampton v Manchester United
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Southampton v Manchester United Sunday 4pm – Sky Sports 1 Whatever signs of encouragement Southampton could have taken from their gutsy display at Manchester City was quickly washed away with defeat at home to Wigan. In a nightmare opening few fixtures for the Saints, that was the game […]
Premier League match preview: Newcastle v Aston Villa
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Newcastle v Aston Villa Sunday 4pm – St. James’s Park Just two games into the new season and optimism around Villa Park is in shorter supply than tasteful interior design around the Stephen Ireland household. A convincing win for Aston Villa over Tranmere during the week eased the […]
Premier League match preview: Liverpool v Arsenal
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Liverpool v Arsenal Sunday 1.30pm – Sky Sports 1 Even though it’s actually Liverpool who go into this game one point behind Arsenal, the media seem to have nominated the Gunners as the crisis club of the moment. It’s a difficult tag to shake off. The combination of […]
Premier League match preview: Manchester City v QPR
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Manchester City v QPR Saturday 5.30pm – ESPN Did you know, Manchester City won last season’s league title by beating QPR on the last day of last season? Of course you knew, because every ESPN ad we’ve seen this week has shoved it down our throats. Apart from […]
Premier League match preview: Wigan v Stoke
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Wigan v Stoke Saturday 3pm – DW Stadium Maintaining the form of the end of last season is the trend for both of these teams in the new campaign. That’s good news for Wigan and their brand of Latiki-taka football, but it’s less encouraging for Stoke. Whilst Roberto […]
Premier League match preview: West Brom v Everton
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer West Bromich Albion v Everton Saturday 3pm – The Hawthorns On account of the hiding West Brom gave Liverpool on the opening day of the season, hopes of a quick-fire Merseyside double will be high. Sadly for Baggies fans adopting that theory, apart from the fact that Everton […]
Premier League match preview: Tottenham v Norwich
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Tottenham v Norwich Saturday 3pm – White Hart Lane The amount of players clearing out their lockers at Tottenham’s Chigwell training ground in recent days has been astonishing. Whatever Andre Villas-Boas makes in profit from all his wheeling and dealing will surely need to go towards the ‘skip […]
Premier League match preview: Swansea v Sunderland
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer Swansea v Sunderland Saturday 3pm – Liberty Stadium Life is a bed of roses for Swansea at the moment. With Michael Laudrup destroying the view he has all the managerial talent of a Danish Iain Dowie, the Swans look like they can beat anyone with their brand of […]
Premier League match preview: West Ham v Fulham
By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer West Ham United v Fulham Saturday 12.45pm – Sky Sports 2 This counts are the first London Derby of the season and it arguably counts as the least interesting. That’s actually a back-handed compliment if you think about because the early signs are that both the Hammers and […]
Scorecast and Wincast now on Paddy Power Mobile
We’re delighted to announce some major improvements to the Paddy Power Mobile app. A few weeks back we locked our technical wizards in a room and told them they weren’t coming out until Paddy Power customers had options such as Scorecasts and Wincasts on mobile. Well, starvation and hallucinations caused by light deprivation are often given a bad reputation, but […]
Play along with Transfer Deadline Day Bingo
Obviously Transfer Deadline Day is the greatest thing ever invented and with the addition of the scarely enthusiastic Sky Sports News presenters, is basically perfect, but what if we could make it even more exciting? ‘Impossible!’ we guess you’re saying with a large degree of contempt at the mere suggestion right about now, but our […]
Betting news on transfer madness, the US Open and Europa League
Morning update from the Paddy Power Blog on all the latest betting moves in sport Football It’s the last day for clubs to snap up players that probably won’t cover up for the team’s weaknesses. There are far too many possible transfers to discuss in this section, but Michael Owen is confident of securing a […]
The clock is ticking! Bet on Jim White’s first cliche
Transfer deadline day is fast approaching! That means you can expect plenty of players in helicopters, lunatics saying they’ve seen Messi in a chippy just outside Watford and you’re guaranteed to hear plenty of clichés on Sky Sports News as irrepressible presenter Jim White goes into overdrive. Paddy Power is betting on Mr Deadline Day’s first cliché during Sky Sports’ deadline day broadcast before […]
VIDEO: He’s slow but Stoke can sign Adam good player
His performances pinging the ball about in the Blackpool midfield convinced Liverpool to shell out £9m for his services. Since that transfer in 2011 Charlie Adam (26) has made just 37 appearances for the Reds, scoring two goals. Now Tony Pulis hopes a deal can be completed to take Charlie Adam to Stoke City, while Turkish […]
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