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Andy Gray: Arsenal need an ‘Istanbul moment’ but they won’t get it

Expert football pundit and analyst Andy Gray joins the Paddy Power Blog to give his insight on Arsenal’s last 16 Champions League clash with Bayern Munich. The Gunners are the last remaining English team in the Champions League but that might not last too long according to Mr Gray. Bayern Munich v Arsenal, Sky Sports […]

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Graham Hunter exclusive: Barca believe they can beat AC Milan

Champions League: Barcelona v AC Milan The cynics, perhaps let’s dub them the realists, will argue it’s all case of ‘too little too late’  for FC Barcelona with regard to putting AC Milan out of the Champions League. For precisely the last two months there has been a drop in the intensity of Barça’s play, […]

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Where the money’s going – Juventus v Celtic

[CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE] By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer ‘Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen, Mircales will happen’. If that’s the message Celtic fans are repeating incessantly to themselves in the hope of it eventually coming true, it’s not working on the wider public with Juventus attracting the Rick Waller sized shared of […]

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Don’t worry Manchester United fans – Here’s a free bet from Paddy Power

Paddy Power is always looking out for his punters. The shareholders might not like it very much and the traders are often left shaking in a cold sweat but it keeps on happening. Not content with forking out €750,000 to punters after his Ronaldo Money-back Special clicked, Paddy wanted to give a little extra back to […]

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Ronal-Doh! Paddy Power pays out €750k after Real Madrid’s comeback

The ref might have cost Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United the Champions League but luckily his poor decision-making won’t cost Paddy Power punters. Cuneyt Cakr is the referee who sent Nani off with Manchester United 1-0 up and arguably in control. It was a cruel injustice but thanks to Paddy Power’s Money-Back Special punters […]

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Manchester United v Real Madrid: As it happened

Manchester United v Real Madrid | Live text commentary It’s the game that Jose Mourinho believes the world will stop to watch. Two giants of English football come head-to-head and battle for a place in the Champions League Quarter-finals. Manchester United take on Real Madrid at Old Trafford in a match people believe deserves to be the final. It has more […]

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Punters fancy Mour’ pain for Manchester United

[Click for larger image] By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer It’s a rarity in modern football – a game so big, it doesn’t need to be flogged to within an inch of its life with melodramatic Sky Sports ads. Jose Mourinho says “it looks like the final” and for once it doesn’t feel like […]

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[video] Graham Hunter gives 3 reasons why Real Madrid will beat Manchester United (and a 40/1 tip)

La Liga expert and all-round good guy Graham Hunter put in a Skype call with the Paddy Power Blog on Sunday night. We asked Graham where he saw the value in the betting for Manchester United vs Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday night at Old Trafford. As you’d expect from someone who […]

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Mourinho v Ferguson: Who is the special one?

By Rob Dore | Champions League opinion This week Real Madrid travel to Old Trafford to play the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie. The 1-1 draw in the Bernabeu on Valentine’s Day gives Manchester United an advantage but it’s fragile one. Nothing definitive will be decided by this game, beyond […]

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Can Manchester United win the treble? Paddy Power will be coughing up £1 million if they do

By Josh Powell | Sports writer The whispers have already started spreading in Luton, Stevenage and Milton Keynes. There are a few around Stretford too. It is 14 years after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s late winner sparked wild celebrations and a cart-wheel from Peter Schmeichel that gets 10 for effort but 4.5 for execution. But Manchester United fans are talking about the […]

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Lionel Messi will score four goals a game in 2017: Here are the stats to prove it!

By Josh Powell | AC Milan v Barcelona Cleaning up every individual award in world football. Breaking goal-scoring records left, right and centre at Barcelona. Making Cristiano Ronaldo cry into his pillow every night before he goes to sleep. Lionel Messi is a pretty busy man, and if our flawless logic is anything to go by […]

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New text bettors get Barcelona at EVENS to beat AC Milan!

Barcelona have won a staggering 79 per cent of their 39 games this season and the greatest team in world football have their eyes on AC Milan in the Champions League this evening. Barca head to the San Siro as the red-hot 8/15 favourites but Paddy Power has got an added bit of spice for this […]

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Betting news on Arsenal, the WGC Matchplay and today’s racing

Football That is Arsenal’s chances of winning the Champions League gone then. Their chances were slim at 7.45pm when they kicked off against Bayern Munich in the Emirates, and by the time the referee blew his final whistle it was done and dusted. Bayern were in a different league beating Arsenal 3-1 and the Gunners are now […]

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#WengerOut – How Twitter reacted to Bayern Munich’s win against Arsenal

Arsenal are pretty much out of the Champions League after Bayern Munich thumped them 3-1 at the Emirates on Tuesday evening. Barring a miracle over in Germany it will mean an eighth trophy-less year for Arsene Wenger who is under massive pressure. Goals from Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller gave Munich a 2-0 lead going […]

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Arsenal v Bayern Munich: As it happened

Arsenal have already been knocked out of two cup competitions by Blackburn and Bradford City this year, and the pressure is on Arsene Wenger as the mighty Bayern Munich roll into town. The Germans are in imperious form losing just two games all season, conceding just 15 goals in 31 games and keeping six clean […]

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