Britain’s Network Rail have decided to have a go at state censorship. The public transport company has taken exception to Paddy Power’s billboard advertisements in the fallout from the retirement of football manager Sir Alex Ferguson. Yesterday, we revealed on the Paddy Power Blog that we’d emblazoned some cheeky news on Europe’s largest full motion digital […]
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And then he’s off his face… Now I’m a Belieber
Police say they have found drugs on Justin Bieber’s tour bus. Officers raided the bus at the Globen concert venue in Stockholm, Sweden, where pop star Bieber (19) was performing on Wednesday. Swedish police spokesman Lars Bystrom says a small amount of drugs and a stun gun were found. Sky News reports that an officer smelled […]
[VIDEO] Watch Kim Jong-un pledge allegiance to Sunderland FC
Kim Jong Un has pledged his allegiance to Paolo Di Canio to help Sunderland avoid the drop. In a public statement Chairman Kim announced the Black Cats’ controversial plans to beat relegation and how he is going to ‘light up’ Sunderland. The tiny North Korean leader took over from his old man Kim Jong-Il in December […]
Breaking nukes! Mad bastard Kim Jong-un 10/1 to launch military strike (the same odds as Seabass to win the Grand National. Gulp)
As pint-sized despot Kim Jong-un continues to antagonise the world in history’s biggest game of chicken our under-fed PR colleagues have forced Paddy Power’s traders to open a North Korea specials betting market. Worryingly, after consulting Paddy Power’s war cabinet and military advisor (Steph on the 3rd floor…) our number-crunchers think a pre-emptive nuclear military strike looks […]
Feilim is drunk at Cheltenham: Day 2 dispatch
Féilim Mac An Iomaire | Midnight Chaser The Paddy Power Blog needed a man on the ground at Cheltenham. This week, loose-trousered PR manager Féilim Mac An Iomaire is that man. After the pasting Hurricane Fly gave us on Tuesday, Feilim was drowning his sorrows yesterday. That may or may not be apparent in this […]
What’s that coming over the hill.. it’s a giant hot air balloon made out of Paddy Power Lucky Pants
9 pictures of the giant Paddy Power Lucky Pants hot air balloon at Cheltenham Paddy Power loves nothing more than Cheltenham and horse racing. Oh, and a bit of mischief. So, for the Cheltenham Festival 2013 we have unleashed this beautiful giant green hot air balloon, based on our famous Lucky Pants. After Ruby Walsh romped […]
Guido Fawkes exclusive: Eastleigh by-election a two-horse race (but my money is on the Lib Dems)
Political firestarter Guido Fawkes gives his opinion on the Eastleigh by-election for the Paddy Power Blog When Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne resigned his Eastleigh seat after pleading guilty to conspiracy to perverting the course of justice you would naturally expect his party to suffer as a result. Counter-intuitively the Lib Dems opened the betting […]
Listen to our hidden mic: JT’s dodgy texts and Eden Hazard is at it again!
By Josh Powell | Hidden Mic Chelsea head to Czech Republic tonight to face Sparta Prague in the last 32 of the Europa League. It’s the trophy that everybody pretends they want to win but secretly nobody actually enjoys playing Thursday nights on Channel 5. Keeper Petr Cech drew the short straw out of the Chelsea boys […]
The top ten Twitter jokes about Findus and horse meat
Fresh on the back of the horse burger scandal, frozen meal producer Findus have taken their beef lasagnes off the shelves because they were found to contain traces off horse meat. Food officials have revealed that some of the ready meals contained ’100 per cent’ horse meat and shoppers have been told not to eat them. Twitter users haven’t […]
Paddy smashes €700k mark with January Money-Back Special All losers bonanza
Paddy Power’s at it again – refunding 13,000 customers and smashing through the €700,00 mark on Money-Back Special all losers in the 1.45 Kempton and the 2.45 Naas on Saturday January 19. So far this year, Paddy has refunded €715k to punters and will continue the Money-Back madness in two races on Saturday, January 26 to go along with all the Saturdays […]
Paddy Power refunds €150k with Money-Back Special on all losers on New Year’s Day
Paddy said he’d do it and he did! Nearly €100k was refunded to around 8,000 customers on the 1.05 at Musselburgh on New Year’s day while approximately €50k was given back to 6,000 clients on the 3.15 at Exeter the same afternoon. That’s a grand total refund of €150k being paid out to 14,000 happy Paddy Power punters with […]
Padvent: Making your Christmas awesome
Padvent: A time of year when people focus on what is really important. Christmas sport and Paddy Power. It is a season observed by all sport fans who love enhanced odds and celebrated from December 1 to December 25 Christmas is just around the corner and with every shop in the country telling you to […]
Incroyable! Watch the video with a certain je ne sais quoi
Check out this video that Paddy Power found. It’s the ‘wally with the brolly’ Schteve McClaren and somebody watching him looking for tips on how to perfect their foreign accent. Steve perfected his own twist on the Dutch language and now someone else has more than just a passing interest in how to pull off […]
Not Big Sam: How Stacy Keibler’s hoop helped me make peace with the WWE
It’s been fifteen years now. Fifteen years of pain. Fifteen years of fury. Fifteen years of disgust. On November 9, 1997, an event took place in Montreal, Canada, that changed Big Sam forever. An act of sheer treachery, it devastated and deflated me like no other, sucking out every last droplet of trust that had […]
Not Big Sam: Do I have good memories of Newcastle? There was one night with Cheryl Cole…
There’s no two ways about it. They hurt. Despite my stoic sensibilities, and my legendary ability to turn the tables on any attacker, the words spat at me by Mike Ashley, when he removed me as manager of Newcastle United in January 2008, stung like a bullet ant. “You’re fired,” he drooled, sat slovenly in […]
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